Jesus: is crucified
Catholics: “Look at how good this Friday is”
Getting brutally tortured and crucified sounds like a pretty terrible Friday to me. An actual Good Friday would be like, Jesus getting high with his buddies and playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 on the PS1 while eating pizza.
Can someone please explain this.
EDIT: How about “Good Friday” but it’s Jesus getting high with Ice Cube and Chris Tucker.
That’s not even the absurd part in my opinion. The dates for Easter and Jesus’ death changes every year. It makes zero sense. Christmas is on the 25th of each year which makes sense because it’s consider his birth day - and yes I know the story whatever. People still consider it his birthday, and as such, it must be the same day every year - but for some reason we celebrate his death and resurrection on completely different dates each year.
The historical explanation is because of competing holidays around the same time, but socially it makes no sense because this is not how annual occasions work. Imagine if “July 4th” was celebrated on “the second Thursday of every July” and it could be the 2nd, the 3rd, the 8th, etc.
It's all co-opting of existing pagan holidays so people can keep their parties around the winter solstice and spring equinox. "Yeah, you can keep your party, just say it's for our god now" works pretty well as a conversion tool.
It's just tied to the traditional Jewish holiday of Passover which is based on the Lunar Calendar. It ain't that deep.
Jesus had Passover, kinda a really important part of the Bible actually, so it's really weird that Christians don't.
Old Covenant, New Covenant.
Easter was invented by the Council of Nicaea in AD 325
There were a few hundred years there where Christians probably did celebrate Passover.
Paul had Passover!
It's weird.
Religions change and build on prior traditions, yet somehow that fact takes people by surprise every time it seems.
It's hard when your religion is the Truth and the Word, because then people think that means it can't just change. God does not play dice etc
it is funny that both reddit atheists and religious conservatives have the same view on religion.
You are asking Christianity (or ANY religion) to make sense? The whole point of religious absurdity is to test faith and destroy critical thinking.
It is because Passover is part of the story of the Crucifixion, and Passover is tied to the Lunar calendar. I am not religious, but even I understand that fact. It is really fucking silly to complain about religion destroying critical thinking as you confidently miss a very well established fact.
Just because a fairy tale is set to a different calendar it doesn't make the fairy tale a fact as anyone who actually understands critical thinking would realize. The absurdity is believing in anything about the zombie jebus story, which was basically stolen from much earlier stories that are equally devoid of facts or rationality.
Ummm… Le sky daddy much? ☝️🤓
the truth typically has logical consistency in the mundane casual sense and relgions claim to be true so, yeah people expect it and then double down in the worst ways or leave when they don't find it.