Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: FPP Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: "Speak Out Loudly Against This Evil": Internet Erupts Over Biden Declaring Easter "Trans Day Of Visibility" Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 10:06:52 -0400 Organization: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn. Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: fredp1571@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2024 14:06:55 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4769cffffa517bc3c96c716870b8763b"; logging-data="290278"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19ks0YCS54c8E5pc77FgSRD" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:RIOQSk5EadDZ0zGBnPJ5Qfmo22M= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2741 On 4/5/24 2:21 PM, The Horny Goat wrote: > On Wed, 3 Apr 2024 06:28:08 -0400, FPP wrote: > >>>> I also suspect this announcement would not have been made if it were during >>>> a Moslem holy holiday, like Ramadan. >>>> >>> That's my entire point. >>> >>> (Though to be fair Ramadan is a month long and this year is from March >>> 10 - April 9 whereas Good Friday and Easter are both single day >>> Christian days though Easter is the highest of all Christian "high >>> holy days" even above Christmas. >> >> You ever heard of Lent? It's a 40 day observance, so it beats Ramadan >> for length. > > And outside the local congregations Lent isn't exactly a major event. > Something like the way one minister I know put it concerning Easter: > "Friday isn't important without Sunday" > Recovering Catholic here... Lent is the most important fast for Catholics for the whole year. The Easter Holiday is the holiest of the entire year. Way more important than any of the others. The resurrection is literally the center of Christianity. -- "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind." - OC Bible 25B.G. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ek8kap93bmk0q5w/D%20U%20N%20E%20Part%20II.jpg?dl=0 Gracie, age 6. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0es3xolxka455iw/BetterThingsToDo.jpg?dl=0