Happy Easter

It’s nice to celebrate Easter as a holiday since in 42 years at five newspapers Easter never was considered a holiday

 

You want to go get some beers?

 

Growing up the holiday was a big deal - dinner at grandparents, the whole family around the table. Egg hunts etc. Now? Maybe a nicer than average meal. Its funny though - you never hear Fox News say anything about a "War on Easter". Maybe that will get us to make it a paid holiday? I wonder if its because typically "Easter" for the most part is done by noon.

 

Why is it Happy Easter, Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Halloween, Happy New year — but Merry Christmas??

 

I stuck this in another thread, but I went to see our local USL team and they had a salute to veterans pregame. I guess Jesus got freed from the tomb by Seal Team 6.

 

Easter wishes from the Hulkster, and I cannot help but hear it in his "1980s cutting a promo on Andre the Giant" voice.

 

Uh-oh. ... You just made the list, buddy.

 

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I remember flipping through the channels and seeing these guys on what I called the Praise The Lord Channel, for want of a better description.

These guys would try to do feats of strength, doubt themselves, pray a bunch, fail the first time, pray a lot more and then complete the feat of strength to cheers and amens. Vince McMahon probably took some notes.

Except one time, when one of the guys was trying to lift a log. No matter how much they prayed, the guy couldn’t do it. Finally, the head Steroid Preacher told the audience that lifting the log didn’t matter because they were believing in God anyways. Even teenage me thought that was a crock.

 

I think it is because Easter is actually more personal to most people than even Christmas is. That keeps it close to the vest, as it were -- or at least more so than in regard to Christmas, which is more broadly known, understood and celebrated, and, from a commercial standpoint, it is also more consumer-driven, for a longer length of time, than is Easter.

I was actually thinking of this a little bit last night during/after attending church, and realized that I find Easter an incredibly powerful weekend, both in the Bible, and in my own heart. In my opinion, the scene of the thieves on the cross on either side of Jesus on Good Friday is among the most gripping, and telling for humanity, in the entire Bible, and others during Christ's execution and after his death and resurrection are so poignant, and important to the faith. In fact, they are the foundation of the faith.

 

That fucking idiot has no experience with a Bible,
and absolutely no historical knowledge of Jesus Christ.

He's right up there with Kid Rock and Your Boy Trump.
Avoid at all costs if you can somehow tear your right-wing eyeballs away.

 

Wow. That escalated quickly.