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No Good Friday in Bloomington
- Thread starter rlvaughn
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Good Friday is a RC inventiom.
John Yurich
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Good Friday is not unscriptural. Jesus was crucified on Friday. My Baptist Church is going to have a Good Friday service.
John, Good Friday as a recognized holy day is not found in scripture. Neither is Christmas. Whether a church chooses to recognize those days is a different matter. As to the OP, it is more evidence of this wide-spread attempt not to offend people by offending people.
37818
Well-Known Member
It denies Mark 14:12 as the 14th according to Exodus 12:6 and Exodus 12:18. And denies that Jesus and the disciples ate the Passover that following evening, the 15th, Mark 14:17.
Hey, can I celebrate my wedding anniversary each year? I don't see that mentioned in the Scriptures either.
I lived in Bloomington. Indiana University used to be called a party school. The town is a liberal stronghold. I think that Indiana University is fading from prominence.
I find it interesting that this news piece has been more of a theological debate than a discussion of news. 
I sent the following to the Mayor Hamilton, though it is likely he will never read it.
Dear Mayor Hamilton,
Yesterday I read the news that the city of Bloomington, in the name of specific inclusivity, has axed “Good Friday” for a more innocuous holiday called “Spring Holiday.”
I am a Christian, but I do not observe Good Friday. I am not a citizen of Bloomington, but rather an outside observer. I will be quite interested to follow this to find whether “Spring Holiday” will always be the third Friday in April, or whether the city will hypocritically move it around to be the Friday before Easter each year!
Thanks for reading my thoughts. Have a good day.
I sent the following to the Mayor Hamilton, though it is likely he will never read it.
Dear Mayor Hamilton,
Yesterday I read the news that the city of Bloomington, in the name of specific inclusivity, has axed “Good Friday” for a more innocuous holiday called “Spring Holiday.”
I am a Christian, but I do not observe Good Friday. I am not a citizen of Bloomington, but rather an outside observer. I will be quite interested to follow this to find whether “Spring Holiday” will always be the third Friday in April, or whether the city will hypocritically move it around to be the Friday before Easter each year!
Thanks for reading my thoughts. Have a good day.
One reason I don't "recognize" Good Friday is because I don't believe Jesus died on Friday -- rather Wednesday, and not later than Thursday (by our day name calculations). Good Friday was never mentioned in my growing up days in a rural Baptist Church. (I don't think I had ever heard of Lent until my sister and brother-in-law moved to San Antonio.)
On the other hand, I am not fighting it as a day that we recognize in the U.S. as a society. I believe the actions of those like Mayor Hamilton are hypocritical and duplicitous. I suspect their "Spring Holiday" will always be on Good Friday and not the 3rd Friday of April!
On the other hand, I am not fighting it as a day that we recognize in the U.S. as a society. I believe the actions of those like Mayor Hamilton are hypocritical and duplicitous. I suspect their "Spring Holiday" will always be on Good Friday and not the 3rd Friday of April!
It's a day that was chosen by the One Universal Christian Church to recognize the great sacrifice of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The particular day is immaterial, it's the fact that it happened and most Christians have the observance.
Is there not anything to your particular practice of religion than just showing up on Sunday to hear a sermon?
Adonia, if you want to debate the theology of Good Friday, why don't you start a thread on that. I'm not going to respond to that point any further in this thread. I put this in "News and Current Events" for a reason. Regardless of what I personally think of Good Friday, this is a news item that I think demonstrates the lunacy and duplicity of the liberal left inclusive agenda. I suppose we might agree on that.
I think that the bottom-line on this news is that a homosexual university and city are abolishing Easter from their memories. I think that Indianapolis, Bloomington, and Gary and maybe South Bend have to be written off as places to avoid. Bloomington, Indiana, is just another lefty college town that is home to a so-so university. Indianapolis, Gary, and South Bend all have Chicago-style or Detroit-style crime waves in progress for several years.
By the way, Bloomington, Indiana, does not have much employment outside of Indiana University where there are a lot of low-paying state jobs. However, southern Indiana is generally poor and so a low-paying state job is good in southern Indiana. The main schools at Indiana University are the medical school, the law school, the music school, and the business school. It is the home of the notorious Kinsey Institute. Eli Lilly & Co. donated money for a rare book library there but I forget what the collection contains. Decades ago there was a chancellor who invested IU funds in good investments and so IU is okay financially.
By the way, Bloomington, Indiana, does not have much employment outside of Indiana University where there are a lot of low-paying state jobs. However, southern Indiana is generally poor and so a low-paying state job is good in southern Indiana. The main schools at Indiana University are the medical school, the law school, the music school, and the business school. It is the home of the notorious Kinsey Institute. Eli Lilly & Co. donated money for a rare book library there but I forget what the collection contains. Decades ago there was a chancellor who invested IU funds in good investments and so IU is okay financially.
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We surely can. Why they are so enthralled with the Good Friday observance anyway is beyond me, being that they are probably non-believers. Watch though, they will probably start observing Ishtar or Ramadan in the near future.
Or the Jewish passover. If the papal church had not changed it from the passover, there would probably be no problem..
Oh, and why "Good Friday"? it should be called Black Friday and we should have "Good Sunday"
After 40 years of working on Sundays, holidays and every other day, I now find myself as a teacher looking forward to being off Good Friday and the Monday after Easter. I was surprised as this, because this area is solidly Protestant and very few people commemorate Good Friday as a holiday. It's not a city, state or county holiday, so most people will be working. For schools, it just happens to fit into the calendar to make up some snow days that weren't taken.
No matter. I'm off work, so I will give thanks.
As to Spring Holiday — stupid is as stupid does. The French tried to erase the religious calendar in the Revolution of 1789 and found that it was a losing battle.
No matter. I'm off work, so I will give thanks.
As to Spring Holiday — stupid is as stupid does. The French tried to erase the religious calendar in the Revolution of 1789 and found that it was a losing battle.