Happy Easter

Submitted by StephenRKass on

A happy and blessed Easter to all of you.

If you're celebrating Easter this Sunday, then to you and your family and friends, please have a happy and blessed and meaningful Easter. And if you're not celebrating on Sunday, well, enjoy the NCAA tourney, and Michigan sports, and whatever it is you enjoy.

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Ty Butterfield

March 27th, 2016 at 1:50 AM ^

Happy Easter!! I remember 3 years ago when Michigan destroyed Florida on Easter Sunday to reach the Final Four. Seemed like so many good times were ahead.

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StraightDave

March 27th, 2016 at 9:21 AM ^

I bought two tickets from StubHub for $8, corner of court and lower level.    I paid more to park than to watch the game.  Kansas and GC fans simply dumped their tickets, for obvious reasons.  

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gopoohgo

March 27th, 2016 at 2:12 AM ^

Easter doesn't mean a big brunch with lots of booze and sexytimes?

/s, Protestant, but went to Catholic school until 5th grade *shudder*

T-minus 5 days until our trip to Mauritius!

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StephenRKass

March 27th, 2016 at 8:03 AM ^

Eating pork was part of the Spanish Inquisition. In order to save their lives, many Jews "converted" to Christianity. During the Spanish Inquistion, forcibly converted Jews were often required to eat pork. This was intended to "prove" their embrace of Christianity, and that they weren't secretly still Jewish. Because of the prohibition on eating pork by religious Jews, Christians chose to celebrate Easter by eating pork (instead of the lamb associated with the Passover Seder meal). Reading about the savage persecution of Jews is pretty horrifying. The more you know, the more you know. I'm a Christian, and a pastor, but the forcible conversion of anyone to any faith (or forcible rejection of any faith) is repugnant to me.

One completely irrelevant piece of trivia:  a Jewish guy who attends the church I pastor says that the one of the best evangelistic tools to reach Jews is bacon. Of course, he's being flip and irreverent. But with a couple of Jewish brother-in-laws myself, and the guy at my church, I've noticed anecdotally that none of them shy away from pork!

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LSAClassOf2000

March 27th, 2016 at 7:00 AM ^

If only I didn't have to face a holiday with family feeling like I'd been run over by a truck thanks to some crud that the kids probably brought home, I would be all set. Today is going to be a long day for that reason alone. I might spend portions of it medicated and napping. 

Everyone have an excellent Easter all the same, of course. 

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Coldwater

March 27th, 2016 at 8:02 AM ^

I'm celebrating Easter today with my children and my parents today. It's time for some serious church this morning for the greatest message of all time!

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Perkis-Size Me

March 27th, 2016 at 8:54 AM ^

Not a religious man (not anymore, anyway), but I hope everyone who is enjoys this day for the message it brings, and gets to spend some time with family.

As for me, the fiancée and I are just going to kick back, enjoy each other's company and enjoy some basketball later today.



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carolina blue

March 27th, 2016 at 9:30 AM ^

You specifically use the word religious. That may be on purpose or not, but I mention it only because many people get turned off to the whole message of what the Bible teaches due to the religion. All religions have ugly sides, especially any given church body, and often can get VERY political, like they own God or Jesus.

If not, and you simply don't believe, I respect that. I just hope that religion hasnt distorted your view of faith as it has for too many.



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Perkis-Size Me

March 27th, 2016 at 10:04 AM ^

I didn't mean anything by it specifically. I have no issues with religion. As you said, every one of them have their good and bad sides. I think there is a lot of good to be derived from the morals and values most any religion teaches. An there are lessons to be learned from any religion's dark times.

It's just not really for me, anymore. At least not organized religion anyway.



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LSAClassOf2000

March 27th, 2016 at 9:03 AM ^

As a minor mod note, if you see comments disappearing from this thread, it is because I am trying to get some of the disparaging remarks out of the thread, or at least those that lack wit and are simply not kind. The flip side of this is that heavy-handed religiosity probably should stay out of the thread as well, even though I know that we have people on this site that are indeed deeply religious. I am trying to keep it from being removed - I really don't want to go that far - but that means we have to try to keep it cordial.

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a different Jason

March 27th, 2016 at 9:25 AM ^

If Section6 was a happier version of himself he would be a great poster. Happy Easter. I celebrate my stuff, you celebrate yours. This day is important to what I celebrate, I will leave it at that.

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Seth

March 28th, 2016 at 10:12 AM ^

I reinstated and modifed the original post so it would say "Happy Easter" instead of "I am going to be patronizing to people who get offended by 'Happy Easter' and then say 'Happy Easter.'"

Chag sameach.

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