Freedom to Marry Day Protest Planned

[RickinNYC]

Rick, this may make me sound gayer than you are because I know the song ... but isn't it from Mariah Carey?

We can make you Gay For a Day, or give you keys to the gay city, or something like that.

 

[Andy B]

Never even been there. But you know, as a real estate agent, I would love to get a little piece of that action, you know what they say, "location, location, location!"

Or in the Palestinians case "relocation, relocation, relocation"

 

[iloveboardwalk]

What a banner week. Yesterday, I learned about hominy. Earlier today, I learned what "divots" were. And now, I've learned that I don't know what the hell I'm talking about when it comes to some biblical history.

The point is, no one knows. I just watched a very interesting documentary on the Discovery Channel last weekend called "Who wrote the Bible?" The short answer? No one friggin knows.

 

[salmoneous]

Friday was the Day of Preparation, Saturday the Sabbath, & Sunday the first day of the week. Actually the Sabbath ran from dusk on Friday to dusk on Saturday (I think).

Matthem 12:40

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth

Unless you go along with my "extra day that week" theory, you just can't squeez in 3 days and nights between Friday and Sunday.

 

[fabshelly]

Wow... That's just rude. Please tell me where you got that from our discussion of what day of the week the Sabbath is on. I guess it's easier to be hateful than to have an adult discussion about sensitive issues. Unbelievable!

If you believe that one part of the Bible's commandments are right and should be followed, then it's cherry-picking to not follow all of them, including killing your neighbor for working on the Sabbath. You tried to brush off my very serious question with some smug remark about what day it falls on, and I made a stronger - much stronger reiteration of my question to get you to PLEASE WAKE UP and answer the question I posed: Why is THIS Levitical law followed and THAT Levitical law not followed by you good literalists?

 

[iloveboardwalk]

Or in the Palestinians case "relocation, relocation, relocation"

HA! This is the funniest thing I have read all week!

 

[mking624]

I'm not going to get into the debate of this thread, because no one is going to change their mind so I find the whole thing pointless to argue about anyway....but just thought I'd comment on this...

Actually He didn't Rise from the Dead on a Sunday. It was a Saturday. And He wasn't crucified on a Friday, but that's a different thread for a different day.

With my husband in seminary, this has always been interesting to us.
According to Jewish law, it would have been forbidden to crucify someone on the Sabbath, which would have been Saturday. However,the Sabbath (or their days) would have begun at sundown, the day before...Friday evening in our definition. Christ would have needed to be crucified and buried before sundown. So he wound up being buried Friday during the day...one day (in the Bible, it specifically refers to this day as the Day of Preparation...and also states the next day was the Sabbath...making it clear He did die on Friday). The Sabbath began at sundown...day 2. The Sabbath ended at sundown the following day, making it officially "Sunday" for them (the Bible even specifically states that this was the first day of the week...indicating it was Sunday). Day 3. The day Christ rose.

Someone called it the Christian Sabbath. Not so. Christians recognize it as the Lord's Day, not as the Sabbath. As a result, Christians typically hold services on Sunday, though many denominations still worship on Saturdays in recognization of the Sabbath. Those who say they are keeping the Sabbath but worship on Saturdays after sundown could technically be considered observers of the Lord's Day and not the Sabbath. But being that Christians and other non-Jewish people recognize a full day as midnight to midnight and not sundown to sundown, the technicality goes out the window.

I do agree that most of our holidays are man made in terms of its date, however. Most Christians would probably be shocked to know that Jesus was not born on December 25th. Following historical timeline, he most likely would have been born in the spring...and some theologians suggest it would be around April. Most Christian holidays are actually set up to cover up a "pagan" holiday. Same reason why All Saints Day happens to fall the day after Halloween. As far as the date of Easter being man made...that date goes more by the Jewish calendar than it does any modern day calendar. So that typically is more accurate than Christmas, for example.

Anyway, just thought I'd share. Carry on.

 

[jimmiej]

The week that Jesus was crucified had three Sabbaths as there were two high holy days, Passover and the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Then of course there is the weekly sabbath.

Since Passover was Jesus' last supper, then it makes sense that the sabbath spoken of in the bible was the first day of the Feast, not the weekly sabbath (Saturday).

Also in the bible it states:

"But he [Jesus] answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth." Matthew 12:39-40

So the half days do not fit the Bible.

Sorry to take this off course.

Interesting! However, the first day of the week was still Sunday, was it not?

 

[Andy B]

Actually, it is on topic because it points out the absurdity of basing something so basic as equal human rights on a religion that contradicts itself and has so many different versions taken from every other major religion that came before it.

But different versions being the basis of different religions can be though to support One true god... just a lot of stupid interpreters

 

[fabshelly]

Many of us prefer the term "Followers of Christ" to "Christians" nowadays, because so many of the most vocal latters are anything but the former!

 

[RickinNYC]

Or in the Palestinians case "relocation, relocation, relocation"

Now THAT was funny!

 

[Andy B]

HA! This is the funniest thing I have read all week!

I thank you

 

[jimmiej]

If you believe that one part of the Bible's commandments are right and should be followed, then it's cherry-picking to not follow all of them, including killing your neighbor for working on the Sabbath. You tried to brush off my very serious question with some smug remark about what day it falls on, and I made a stronger - much stronger reiteration of my question to get you to PLEASE WAKE UP and answer the question I posed: Why is THIS Levitical law followed and THAT Levitical law not followed by you good literalists?

Because I'm not Jewish.

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

We can make you Gay For a Day, or give you keys to the gay city, or something like that.

I didn't know I could get a one day exception. Is that like a mulligan in golf?

 

[RickinNYC]

I didn't know I could get a one day exception. Is that like a mulligan in golf?

First the song, now this made up word "mulligan."

I know not what you speak, but I'll just nod my head, smile and do my best to be pretty.

 

[Andy B]

By the way we are in WDW in August do any other pinko liberals happen to be going then?

 

[mamaprincess]

Does it make me a bad gay man if I have NO idea where that song is from? Because I've worked hard for my membership card and don't want to jeopardize that. AND I refuse to give back the Official Gay I-pod that was me welcome gift. You can have the eye cream and hair gel though. Too stinky for me.

http://www.mp3.com/albums/20000182/summary.html?from=47366 Hurry and download the song ("It's Like That"), your card is in danger of being revoked.

However the fact that you knew somehow that as a gay man, you were supposed to know and that it would be bad if you didn't know it is extremely impressive.

 

[jimmiej]

Someone called it the Christian Sabbath. Not so. Christians recognize it as the Lord's Day, not as the Sabbath.

That was me. You are correct. I was trying to compare apples to apples.

 

[LuvDuke]

The point is, no one knows. I just watched a very interesting documentary on the Discovery Channel last weekend called "Who wrote the Bible?" The short answer? No one friggin knows.

The truth is no one really does know.

And yet there are places in Israel, such as the site of the Crucifixion in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where you get the unmistakable feeling something terrible happened there. It's just an overwhelming feeling.

That's about as close to a sure thing as you're going to get in the Middle East.

 

[iloveboardwalk]

But different versions being the basis of different religions can be though to support One true god... just a lot of stupid interpreters

Well that's just it, how can there be any "one true word" from "one true god" if there are so many versions floating around?