HerrGrimm wrote:
Today marks Good Friday in America. We get to remember a man who had to carry a wooden cross across town as he repeatedly fell down, the crowd sneering at him. The cross kept hitting the crown of thorns so he is completely covered in his own blood. When he gets to the top of the hill, they nail his wrists and his ankles to the cross and he hangs for 3 hours until he dies from (in my opinion) the worst sort of death you can have. And then, after he dies, he gets pierced with a spear to make sure. All this happened because God loves you.
It leaves me thinking: if this is GOOD Friday, what exactly is BAD Friday? I have not thought of anything worse than that. Discuss.
What I asked my mom when I was six or seven when she explained what the holiday was about while she was buttoning the collar on my Sunday best before we and grandma all went to church- was if this is the day they crucified him then "why isnt it called 'Bad' Friday?'
She agreed that it was a confusing but didnt give a memorable explanation.
I think every child in Christendom has wondered that.
Kinda like why is the letter "W" called "double U" when its obviously a "double V"?
Every English speaking child who passes the first grade wonders that.
It think its just the fact that "good" and "god" were interchangeable words in old english.
And then god gradually became the noun and good became the adjective. So it really means "god Fridday"- a day to be mindful of god. Not a Friday that has anything good about it.