Uncle C
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In those days it was fashionable to call 'bad' things 'good', just as nowadays the youth call 'good' things 'well bad'.
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The Passion
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In those days it was fashionable to call 'bad' things 'good', just as nowadays the youth call 'good' things 'well bad'.
In those days it was fashionable to call 'bad' things 'good', just as nowadays the youth call 'good' things 'well bad'.
This seems to be a very plausible theory, cheers.
Uncle C
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No problem - I didn't do Sunday School for nothing.This seems to be a very plausible theory, cheers.
dougdeep
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Surely it's because we don't have to work.
MOG
Miserable Old Git
The source of our term for the Friday before Easter, "Good Friday," is not clear. It may be a corruption of the English phrase "God's Friday," according to Professor Laurence Hull Stookey in Calendar: Christ's Time for the Church (p. 96). It is the common name for the day among English- and Dutch-speaking people. It is a day that proclaims God's purpose of loving and redeeming the world through the cross of our Lord, Jesus Christ. It is a day that is good because God was drawing the world to God's self in Christ. As seen in John's gospel, particularly, God was in control. God was not making the best of a bad situation, but was working out God's intention for the world — winning salvation for all people. We call it "good" because we look backward at the crucifixion through the lens of Easter!
"Good Friday" is not a universal name for the day. The liturgical title for the day in the Western church was "Friday of Preparation," since the time Jews used the word paraskeue (getting ready) for Friday, meaning the "day of preparation." Popular names for the day are "Holy Friday" among the Latin nations, "Great Friday" among the Slavic peoples, "Friday of Mourning" in Germany, "Long Friday" in Norway, and "Holy Friday" (Viernes Santo) among Hispanic peoples.
London Calling
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Since "Good" day comes from "God" day, I assume, its an abreviation of God's Friday.
Juan Albion
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Yes Porky? What do you want?
London Calling
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Passion of Christ
I watched it last night.
I feel brutalised.
How much of barbaric treatment was actually recorded to have happened againgst Jesus?
LC
I watched it last night.
I feel brutalised.
How much of barbaric treatment was actually recorded to have happened againgst Jesus?
LC
Uncle Spielberg
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Its Gibson's take on the original Gospels. It is the most violent film I have ever seen and is a pilgramage to Christ and I can see why devout Christians reveer it. The violence against him no mere man would survive especially the flouging scene but to me that is the point, he was not a mere man in many regards. The flouging scene went on too long for me but that apart the whole film was a very good effort.
London Calling
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Agree.
Though a film, I felt helpless, you would hope someone/ people would show pity or courage.
However, it shows when up againgst two political /states both virtually totallitarian. Mere mortals are powerless and to stood up would have also led to similar mistreatment.
Both the Passions have left an imprint on me, I need to seek more - though for factual reasons not for religion.
Dave the OAP
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I always wanted to go to Oberammergau to see the Passion Play performed there ( I think its every second year) but I suppose you have to be quite intense in your religious outlook to gain some sort of message out of it....I just like religious music
