georginasand | It's only funny until someone gets hurt (Reply)

"We've made carrying this grudge a cottage industry" ~Dearly Beloved
Re: Yesterday's post

This is most certainly NOT how it was supposed to go down. I'm not sure who messed it up, and frankly now is not the time to point fingers, (besides, they have all been dead for at least a thousand years) but now everyone still needs saving (what about a second coming doesn't scream "ha ha suckers, maybe next time") and after 2000 years we haven't really made much progress.

Through miscalculation and general "unalertness" I missed Purim which is my favorite holiday. It commemorates Ester saving the Jews from Haman (a crazy grand vizar with a three cornered hat). It's one of those "be happy or I will smite you" holidays, and needless to say I'm a fan. So to get through today and to makeup for missing Purim, I decided I would just move it up a couple of days and try and celebrate Purim today. I'm still celebrating someone not being dead, so it should work... in theory.

It was a good theory, and I spent most of a very painful Sunday school class thinking "Smile... no one's dead." Sometimes you have to start at the bottom for this gratitude thing to work. Unfortunately, as my Sunday school teacher is explaining all the gory details of the Crucifixion I realized this theory had a large hole. People are dead... lots of them. The Coliseum, the Crusades, the Inquisitions, the Holocaust, the Middle Eastern Disaster. Lots of people are dead and all because we screwed over the Messiah.

It's not his fault. If he really is the Son of Gd, I hope he understands the immense amount of respect I have for him. He had good ideas and he tried really really hard. But he said "Feed my sheep" not ”Divide up my sheep, turn them against each other and cause blood shed that will last for the next millennium." I like Peter too much to blame this all on him, but something got lost in translation.

So I don't know if that made any sense, but thank you for letting me rant (Assuming you hung on and read this far). My point is … actually, I’m not so sure what my point is, or even how I think things should have played out. But I am fairly certain Easter and Passover should have ended up as the same holiday, celebrated by the same people at the same time, not moving away from each other in occasionally overlapping circles.

Oh look it’s the first Sunday after the first full moon of the vernal equinox, same time next year, guys? I’m sorry, this is insanity and it has got to stop. We’re all the children of Abraham, and this family feud has been going on a tad too long.

I remain,
Georgie