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What is the highest Christian holiday?

What is the highest Christian holiday?

  • Easter

    Votes: 4 66.7%

  • Good Friday

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • some other day

    Votes: 2 33.3%
  • Total voters
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What is the highest Christian holiday?

In Germany - and maybe also elsewhere - there is a controversy, whether Easter or Good Friday should be the highest Christian holiday,

Now I am asking you about your opinion. :)
 
I have voted for Easter now. :)
 
Now there are two votes for Easter.
Is anyone for Good Friday herer?
 
There is only one...the memorial meal of Jesus death...
 
Easter has no advanced to 3 votes out of 4 voters. :)
 
Easter or Good Friday - that is the question.
 
I would think the Christian feast day: Agnes of Montepulciano
 
I voted Christmas.

Easter just brings you boiled eggs and marshmallow bunnies.

Good Friday just means an awesome fish fry.

But Christmas, takes weeks or months to plan and we get a lot more goodies and more time off of work for me.

I'm going with Christmas.
 
Rumpel said:
I like Christmas also :peace
But professinal Better-Christians will tell you that it is a bad and pagan Holiday! :(
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But so is Easter....

Most historians, including Biblical scholars, agree that Easter was originally a pagan festival. <snip> The Ancient Pagan Origins of Easter | Ancient Origins

And, technically, so is Christmas I suppose.

Since it appears unlikely that Jesus was born on 25th December, it raises the logical question of why Christmas is celebrated on this date. The answer points back to the Romans' pagan celebrations of the winter solstice. Two celebrations in particular took place around December 25 - the Saturnalia, and the birthday of the Sun God, Mithra (Catholic Encyclopedia). The Saturnalia festival began on 17 th December and later expanded with festivities through to the 25 th December. It paid tribute to Saturn, the agricultural God of Sowing and Husbandry, and was associated with the renewal of light and the coming of the new year. The holiday was celebrated with a sacrifice in the Temple of Saturn, a public banquet, followed by private gift-giving, continual partying, and a carnival atmosphere <snip> Why Christmas is held on 25th December | Ancient Origins

Those pagans just ruined it for everybody. LOL!
 
April 20th :2razz:
 
Rumpel said:
That is in really bad taste.
Disgusting.
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What do you have against UN Chinese Language Day? ;)

Though I think this might have been an off by one error, as April 21 is St George's day. I can't decide if it is cool to celebrate the mythical guy who slew the last mythical creature, or if it is a horrific symbol of mankind's terrible impact on biodiversity, but April 21 is also celebrated as Shakespeare's birthday, which seems worth a party to me.

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RAMOSS said:
I would think the Christian feast day: Agnes of Montepulciano
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I don't know this one. Do they drink beer and listen to Irish music on that feast day, too? No? St. Patrick: 2, St Agnes: 0.

:)

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DarthPedant said:
I don't know this one. Do they drink beer and listen to Irish music on that feast day, too? No? St. Patrick: 2, St Agnes: 0.

:)

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Well, the question was 'what is the highest Christian holiday'. That feast day is on 4/20.
 
RAMOSS said:
Well, the question was 'what is the highest Christian holiday'. That feast day is on 4/20.
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Lol. Ok, I must retally the score then.

St. Patrick: 2, St. Agnes: 1

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DarthPedant said:
What do you have against UN Chinese Language Day? ;)

Though I think this might have been an off by one error, as April 21 is St George's day. I can't decide if it is cool to celebrate the mythical guy who slew the last mythical creature, or if it is a horrific symbol of mankind's terrible impact on biodiversity, but April 21 is also celebrated as Shakespeare's birthday, which seems worth a party to me.

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Why not? It is as Biblical as easter celebrations.
 
DarthPedant said:
Though I think this might have been an off by one error
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You should know better what the 20th of April stands for.
I still find that other posting disgusting.
 
Rumpel said:
You should know better what the 20th of April stands for.
I still find that other posting disgusting.
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I have since been enlightened. Though I can see this being a useful bit of social trivia in a 'know your memes' sense, I would not elevate it to a 'you should know better'. ;)

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DarthPedant said:
I have since been enlightened.
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I do not think so really.
The 20th of April is Adolf Hitler's birthday - and it is celebrated by Neo-Nazis.
Now you know.
But I do not want to comment on that further.
 
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