Category Archives: religion

Happy Good Friday

April 7, 2012 – 3:25 pm

For Catholics around the world Ash Wednesday kicked off the Easter Season. Forty days of abstinence from a favorite pleasure was a token of sacrifice for the crucified Messiah. On Palm Sunday the faithful brandished palm fronds to celebrate the son of god entering Jerusalem. Each and every Good Friday of my childhood the priests [...]

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Dinner For Thirteen

April 5, 2012 – 5:50 pm

According to the New Testament Jesus entered Jerusalem in triumph. Within a week his enemies were plotting his death. Faced with impending doom the Nazareth native gathered his followers for a Passover Dinner just outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem in a joint called the Upper Room perhaps run by an Essene [...]

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Maundy Thursday

April 5, 2012 – 9:52 am

Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday commemorates the last day of freedom for Jesus Christ. The Man from Nazareth spent his final hours of liberty with his apostles and at this Last Supper the Messiah predicts his betrayal. The date for Holy Thursday has been argued by scholars for centuries, but is generally conceded to have [...]

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Dinosaur Wipeout

March 4, 2012 – 4:25 pm

Noah left behind the dinosaurs, so the Christians could say that God created the world 4000 years ago. Now we know the truth. All dinosaurs left behind. Shame Noah Shame.

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Eleven Years Later

February 27, 2012 – 10:50 am

Two week after 9/11 the wind shifted direction from a westerly to a southerly. The plume of smoke swung north to cloak the streets below Union Square with the BBQ fragrance of the massive funeral pyre. My apartment on East 10th Street filled with particles of dead people, asbestos, cindered paper, pulverized steel and ashes [...]

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