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Why did they call "Good" Friday . . . wouldn't be more like "This Kinda Sucks For Me" Friday?

I'm just saying . . .

It means good driving Friday, a lot of people have the day off so the drive in to work was fairly good! Thank you Jesus!

I'm off today Ha Ha!

We have a gig tomorrow! I'm looking forward to playing with my friends!

My local church does a Last Supper Re-enactment every two years.

We did it last night and will do it again tonight, Im Thomas.

We enlisted the singer from my band to play Jesus, and do a little pre play speech to let people know what was going on, and although we werent in the room when he did it, my parents and wife told me he killed it!

Anyway, if you are one that celebrates Easter, Happy Easter!

I plan on jumping my bunny a few times this weekend to celebrate!

Never understood Catholic traditions, or why Protestants would keep them; it was on a Wednesday, if that matters for some reason?

I boycott Easter...but have nothing against those who observe it as if it really were resurrection day. The Feast of Firstfruits is the biblical day set aside for observing that, and this year it falls on the same day as easter.

As a little kid, in Wurzburg, Germany, We used to set out our shoes by the front door on Easter 'eve". On Easter morning, there would be chocolates, candies, nuts, colored Easter Eggs and even tangerines stuffed in the shoes.

Yes, I am sure there are those who scoff at this idea of celebrating a divine resurrection... They cant stand the thought of making children happy, through what they dismiss as a propagation of myths..

But for me, it was a gesture rooted with love, and not contempt. from my parents. They knew I'd eventually grow up and learn the truth about the Easter Bunny...But I thank them for giving me a wonderful tradition that seemed so magical in my four-year old mind. It was a spice in my young life that I shall never forget.
Happy Easter everyone... Its all bout the love,...

The name "Easter" originated with the names of an ancient Goddess and God. The Venerable Bede, (672-735 CE.) a Christian scholar, first asserted in his book De Ratione Temporum that Easter was named after Eostre (a.k.a. Eastre). She was the Great Mother Goddess of the Saxon people in Northern Europe. Similarly, the "Teutonic dawn goddess of fertility [was] known variously as Ostare, Ostara, Ostern, Eostra, Eostre, Eostur, Eastra, Eastur, Austron and Ausos." 1 Her name was derived from the ancient word for spring: "eastre." Similar Goddesses were known by other names in ancient cultures around the Mediterranean, and were celebrated in the springtime.

All Pagan religions in the Mediterranean area had a major seasonal day of religious celebration at or following the Spring Equinox. Cybele, the Phrygian fertility goddess, had a consort, Attis, who was believed to have been born via a virgin birth. Attis was believed to have died and been resurrected each year during the period MAR-22 to MAR-25.

Gerald L. Berry, author of "Religions of the World," wrote:

"About 200 B.C. mystery cults began to appear in Rome just as they had earlier in Greece. Most notable was the Cybele cult centered on Vatican hill ...Associated with the Cybele cult was that of her lover, Attis (the older Tammuz, Osiris, Dionysus, or Orpheus under a new name). He was a god of ever-reviving vegetation. Born of a virgin, he died and was reborn annually. The festival began as a day of blood on Black Friday and culminated after three days in a day of rejoicing over the resurrection." 3

Wherever Christian worship of Jesus and Pagan worship of Attis were active in the same geographical area in ancient times, Christians:

"... used to celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus on the same date; and pagans and Christians used to quarrel bitterly about which of their gods was the true prototype and which the imitation."

" "... used to celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus on the same date; and pagans and Christians used to quarrel bitterly about which of their gods was the true prototype and which the imitation."

Sure glad it's not like that today.

Etu Malku wrote:The name "Easter" originated with the names of an ancient Goddess and God. The Venerable Bede, (672-735 CE.) a Christian scholar, first asserted in his book De Ratione Temporum that Easter was named after Eostre (a.k.a. Eastre). She was the Great Mother Goddess of the Saxon people in Northern Europe. Similarly, the "Teutonic dawn goddess of fertility [was] known variously as Ostare, Ostara, Ostern, Eostra, Eostre, Eostur, Eastra, Eastur, Austron and Ausos." 1 Her name was derived from the ancient word for spring: "eastre." Similar Goddesses were known by other names in ancient cultures around the Mediterranean, and were celebrated in the springtime.

All Pagan religions in the Mediterranean area had a major seasonal day of religious celebration at or following the Spring Equinox. Cybele, the Phrygian fertility goddess, had a consort, Attis, who was believed to have been born via a virgin birth. Attis was believed to have died and been resurrected each year during the period MAR-22 to MAR-25.

Gerald L. Berry, author of "Religions of the World," wrote:

"About 200 B.C. mystery cults began to appear in Rome just as they had earlier in Greece. Most notable was the Cybele cult centered on Vatican hill ...Associated with the Cybele cult was that of her lover, Attis (the older Tammuz, Osiris, Dionysus, or Orpheus under a new name). He was a god of ever-reviving vegetation. Born of a virgin, he died and was reborn annually. The festival began as a day of blood on Black Friday and culminated after three days in a day of rejoicing over the resurrection." 3

Wherever Christian worship of Jesus and Pagan worship of Attis were active in the same geographical area in ancient times, Christians:

"... used to celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus on the same date; and pagans and Christians used to quarrel bitterly about which of their gods was the true prototype and which the imitation."

And that's why I boycott Easter.


But it goes farther back into Babylon with Ishtar, Tammuz, and Simeramis.

Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ by full intent laid down his deity allowing himself to be tortured and murdered. Though his grief was not purely the pain known physically and mentally to his humanity, but also that suffering incurred by taking the full weight of the sin of humanity onto his own soul so that God The Father' justice would be served and mankind would have a redeemer.

He died so that a sorry piece of sh*t like me could call on his name in redemption and spend eternity glorified with my Father in heaven.

This is the date I commemorate his sacrifice for me personally, and that's as GOOD a FRIDAY as there will ever be.

the decent into hell