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Belated Happy Easter!
Even more belated happy Passover!
And the heathens who've been pigging out on eggs *passes toothbrush and bicarbonate of soda* < /tongue in cheek>

I don't much like the word 'Easter' anyway, for the same reason I don't like 'Sunday': pagan-ness. (We used to spell it 'Sonday' sometimes when we were small, and most people in our church call it the [Christian] Sabbath.) I'd rather have the Pasq- words of the Romance languages, because you can see the pesach in the root. And that's what it actually was; the ultimate, perfect all-sufficient paschal lamb. Perhaps Resurection-Day would be better?

The minister preached yesterday on the passage in 1 Corinthians about how a literal resurection is the centre of Christianity--take that away and you have nothing left. I don't know why these liberals bother even saying they're Christians when they don't believe any of it.

I usually feel sort of exalted on Easter days, but yesterday I didn't and tere was no point trying to manufacture emotions that are minor issues anyway. I prayed in the afternoon and felt sort of calm and stern and determined.

Oh, and my right ear is all bunged up and sore :(

Date: 2004-04-18 02:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sollersuk.livejournal.com
My understanding of the Gospels and the Epistles is that we're not supposed to get deeply into the Sabbath bit anyway - see the episode where they go through the cornfield and the statement "the letter slayeth but the spirit giveth life". 5th century inhabitants of Gaul seem to hedged their bets by fasting and abstaining from work on Saturday and then going to church on Sunday (Catholics, that is - the Arians seem to have gone every day)

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