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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 00:05:55 JST goatsarah

   Christians: This Friday we celebrate!

   Non Christians: Cool! What’s the occasion?

   Christians: Our god died. Tortured to death quite horribly, in fact.

   Non Christians: You celebrate that?

   Christians: There are sound theological reasons.

   Non Christians: Bit weird, but ok.

   Christians: We call it “Good Friday”

   Non Christians: …

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 04:34:24 JST goatsarah

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     • A.L. Blacklyn

     @shadowsminder I mean, crucifixion is literal nightmare fuel. A truly unspeakably horrible way to die.

     And Christian churches just strew its imagery around like so much torture porn.

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     A.L. Blacklyn (shadowsminder@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 04:34:25 JST A.L. Blacklyn

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     @goatsarah I had to explain the meaning of the holiday to a child once. We needed recoup time afterward.

     The experience changed how both of look at the Bible.

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     valhalla (valhalla@social.gl-como.it)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 04:42:00 JST valhalla

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     @goatsarah as somebody who grew up christian in a non-English speaking country, the name “Good Friday” also perplexes me.

     We call it (a literal translation of) Holy Friday, and it's definitely set aside with specific rites and observances, but not celebrated as a joyous occasion, it's the exact opposite.

     And I can get that the sound theological reasons may also apply to the name, but really, the good bit of the whole cleansing humanity from the original sin and stuff is the result, not the process, isn't it?

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 08:51:51 JST goatsarah

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     • diegor
     @diegor Yeah yeah, we get that there are sound reasons behind the Lovecraftian weirdness.
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     diegor (diegor@social.gl-como.it)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 08:51:52 JST diegor

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     @goatsarah In fact the word good stood for "holy", not the modern meaning:

     en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Fri…

     And of course christians don't celebrate good friday, but commemorate it. It's like say that jews people celebrate Holocaust_memorial_days.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 02:46:07 JST goatsarah

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     • valhalla
     • David Mitchell :CApride:

     @DavidM_yeg @valhalla There are worse ways to die, it’s true. There aren’t many worse ways to die though.

     And he wasn’t up there long enough.

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     David Mitchell :CApride: (davidm_yeg@mstdn.ca)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 02:46:08 JST David Mitchell :CApride:

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     • valhalla

     @valhalla @goatsarah

     It’s the bizarre obsession with the suffering that puzzles me, as if this suffering was uniquely awful and therefore redemptive *because* it went beyond what anyone else has experienced… but it didn’t. Crucifixions were common - they had two other guys to hang beside him. Rome once lined a road with people on crosses. This kind of horror plays out every day, now too, an example of what people do to other people at their worst.

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