In other words, the journalist doesn't know or care that the Resurrection and the Ascension — Jesus rising from the dead and Jesus ascending into Heaven — are two quite different events that took place in two different places (the traditional site of the Ascension is not the Holy Sepulchre, but the Mount of Olives or Mount Mount Olivet), separated by 40 days during which Jesus walked, talked, and ate with his disciples.
How important is this? Crucially important.
In fact, it would not be an exaggeration to say those 40 days are responsible for the Christian faith being what it is and not something completely different.
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