Good Friday! Happy Purim, Eid, etc..

[villager]

Good Friday! Happy Purim, Eid, etc...


On Friday more than a billion Christians around the world will mark the gravest observance on their Calendar, Good Friday, the day Jesus died on the cross. (To be followed in two days by Easter Sunday, to mark his Resurrection).
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But unlike some holy days — say, Christmas, which some non-Christians in the U.S. observe informally by going to a movie and ordering Chinese food — on this particular Friday, March 21, it seems almost no believer of any sort will be left without his or her own holiday. In what is statistically, at least, a once-in-a-millennium combination, the following will all occur on the 21st:

Good Friday
Purim, a Jewish festival celebrating the biblical book of Esther
Narouz, the Persian New Year, which is observed with Islamic elaboration in Iran and all the "stan" countries, as well as by Zoroastrians and Baha'is.
Eid Milad an Nabi, the Birth of the Prophet, which is celebrated by some but not all Sunni Muslims and, though officially beginning on Thursday, is often marked on Friday.
Small Holi, Hindu, an Indian festival of bonfires, to be followed on Saturday by Holi, a kind of Mardi Gras.
Magha Puja, a celebration of the Buddha's first group of followers, marked primarily in Thailand.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1723811,00.html

[spoony]

1. Once in a millenium, now that's cool

I think for today we can dust off the phrase "happy holidays"!

[villager]

2. If only humans seized the opportunity this congruence might provide...

Were they but to open their eyes...

[Book Lover]

3. Why? What would happen?

What is this opportunity you mean?

[villager]

4. the confluence of major spring holidays, thus perhaps letting us know....

...different religions can be viewed as co-equal paths down the same river.

Or whatever metaphor you're comfortable with, BL! ;-)

[Book Lover]

8. Well, that only works

if you believe that all religions lead to the same place. Do they?

[parasim]

10. Yeah, pretty much...

http://www.loyno.edu/twomey/blueprint/vol_lv/No-06_Feb_2002.html

[Manifestor_of_Light]

5. Neato !!!!

Ecumenical celebration. That I can endorse.

[Indenturedebtor]

6. Well I'm

Pumped for Purim myself :bounce:

Thinking about getting my wife a Purim costume :think:

[villager]

7. uh, as Vashti?

;-)

[villager]

9. spring kick!

n/t