Happy Resurrection Day!

BC Cartoon ^ | April 20, 2003 | Johnny Hart

[error99]

Just a little while ago, on FoxNews, one of the reporters in the
studio wished a "Happy Easter" to another reporter in the field.

The reporter in the field replied,
"I'm an Orthodox Christian and we do not celebrate until next week".

What the heck is up with that?

[Fifth Business]

It's one of the things that distinguishes the Eastern Orthodox churches from the Western (Catholic, Protestant) ones. Their Easter always comes after Catholic/Protestant Easter, but each year it varies by the number of weeks after. This year it's only one week after.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

Praise GOD that...

LOVE is the Only Reality...

and that...

GOD is LOVE.

[disclaimer]

Why was this moved to chat? Our freedoms come from God - and our only hope is through his son. Our country must turn back to Jesus/God if we are to have any hope of continuing as a free people.

Happy Easter!

[error99]

Thanks - You inspired me to google up this for my edification:
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It must be understood first of all that names like Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Syrian Orthodox, Serbian Orthodox, Romanian Orthodox, etc. are all names for one and the same Church with one and the same faith and practice. Of course within these churches there are cultural differences which do not touch the essence of the faith as such.

Sometimes the Orthodox Church is also called the Eastern Orthodox Church, or the Oriental Church, or the Christian Church of the East, or the Orthodox Catholic Church, or the Graeco-Russian Church. But once more, these are all different names for the same Church.

Care must be exercised not to confuse the Orthodox Church with the Eastern Christian Churches in union with the See of Rome: the so-called Uniates, or Byzantine or Greek Catholics. And also there is the distinction to be made between the Orthodox and the so-called Oriental Orthodox or Lesser Eastern Churches such as the Coptic Church, the Ethiopian, Syrian, Armenian, Indian, and other churches which are very close to the Orthodox Church but not part of it.

In America it must be noticed that the new autocephalous (self-governing) Church which used to be the Russian Orthodox Church of America is now simply called the Orthodox Church in America.

[Fifth Business]

Actually, I think it comes on the same day as Catholic/Protestant Easter every fifth year.

[Fifth Business]

Thanks. My wife is Greek, so we end up celebrating both every year.

Here's an algorithm for calculating it if you're interested:

http://www.avdf.com/jan98/art_vb006.html

I haven't tested it, just passing it along.

[Skooz]

Why was this moved to chat?

I figured it might be. This news is 2000 years old.

God bless and have a great Resurrection Day! He is Risen!

[tutstar]

I just saw a thread on the main forum asking why this was moved to chat and the Admin Mod. stated that it was because this is a cartoon. At first I thought the Mod was saying that the questioning thread was a cartoon because I had not seen this thread yet. I looked for 'General Discussion' and did not see it, then thought that maybe it was under 'General Interest'. The two terms are not synonomous to me and even though I've been here a while I just recently learned about the chat area.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Just a little while ago, on FoxNews, one of the reporters in the studio wished a "Happy Easter" to another reporter in the field.
The reporter in the field replied, "I'm an Orthodox Christian and we do not celebrate until next week".
What the heck is up with that?

Indeed.

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What is up with that? What ever happened to saying, "Thank you and the same to you"? The in studio reporter was trying to be nice and got a verbal slap in return. What is wrong with saying thank you? What makes people think that the customs and beliefs of their particular religion should be common knowledge and they should never be wished a happy holiday unless it is in line with their particular beliefs?

This is where all the stupid Happy Holidays stuff comes from you know. Everyone expects to be catered to. And so the rest of us have to find some way to accommodate them because we really don’t feel like getting in a fight every time some super sensitive type comes across our path.

So maybe next time we won’t try to be nice at all. Why should we?

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And now I will quit channeling Dennis Miller and go take the lamb out of the oven. Happy Whatever! And if that offends anybody go read Psalm 119:165.