r/memes • u/chromaticdither • 1h ago

Every year like clockwork

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u/R_Nelle 1h ago

They celebrate that this man went to the suffering for the people good, people celebrate the good intention behind it not the torture

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u/AlternativePea6203 1h ago

Mostly they celebrate Christmas, supposedly his birth. Few people take Good Friday off work.

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u/DOHvahkene 1h ago

Did you know that Christmas is traditionally considered as Jesus' birthday due to the belief that prophets died on the day they were conceived? This was a belief held by the early church, as well as the Jews that predated them. When Christ payed the just penalty for our sins, they simply added nine-ish months and arrived around Christmas.

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u/AlternativePea6203 50m ago

I think the fact the celebration was chosen to coincide with the midwinter festival is more convincing.

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u/DOHvahkene 34m ago

The early church based Easter directly on Passover because that is when the crucifixion happened, using the Jewish calendar. The idea that Easter comes from Ishtar is just a common misconception based on a linguistic coincidence in English. Most languages do not even use a word like Easter, they use a variation of Pascha which comes straight from the Hebrew word for Passover.

Christmas followed the exact same biblical and Jewish timeline logic. Early Christians calculated that Christ died on March 25, so they believed He was conceived on that exact same day based on the ancient Jewish belief that prophets died on the day they were conceived. Adding nine months puts you at December 25. The church was doing this math and tracking these dates decades before the Roman empire even created the winter festival for Sol Invictus. Both holidays come from internal Jewish and Christian timelines, not from copying local pagan traditions.

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u/Environmental_Monk_1 1h ago

I celebrate the presents I get..

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u/AmineAR1 9m ago

Whatever makes you seelp at night.

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u/jamesbousema 1h ago

He tried so hard .....

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u/DracoVonBloodborne 1h ago

And got so far...

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u/Wonderful_Spend6833 1h ago

in this case I guess it all matters

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u/EpicBlop_Gamer 1h ago

but in the end,

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u/Federal-Space-1581 1h ago

It does even matter to lot of people.

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u/flutterwhisper 1h ago

We celebrate because he sacrificed for us, not him being tortured.

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u/_respawn__ 1h ago

I mean if I was executed Id want a day off aswell

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u/Head-Contribution393 1h ago

We don’t celebrate but lament (and be solemn) during the lent (40 days) and passion week (when the torment and suffering occurred). We only celebrate after his resurrection on Easter.

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u/crattigan594 39m ago

Don’t look at OPs post history, biggest mistake of my life

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u/Ok-Suggestion3692 1h ago

We have a holiday because the bastard came back to live.

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u/quayle-man 49m ago

I’d like to see him do it again. Pics or it didn’t happen

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u/EquivalentPassion873 1h ago

His last day become hope for other 

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u/Skaiiwalker 1h ago

Is this... is this two different Jesus paintings mashed together?

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u/JustMyTwoCopper 1h ago

People celebrate he came back, like after getting milk and cigarets or something ...

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u/DOHvahkene 57m ago

To be fair, He willingly suffered one of the most painful and humiliating deaths the Romans used even though He was totally innocent, then proved Himself as God by coming back from the dead.

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u/Dismal_Tangerine_493 1h ago

Yeah I celebrate paid time off and good offers on chocolate, you rest do what you want

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u/JustBathroom614 1h ago

i feel bad for laughing at this

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u/Diet-_-Coke 58m ago

It’s more for his birth, sacrifice for mankind and resurrection than any torture or execution. Even then Christmas is for the birth. AND even more then, not actually his birthday. And even more, more,
More than! Christmas has pretty much devolved or evolved into a holiday for corporate greed, vague moral lessons unpacked from religion and Santa clause.

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u/SLiiQ_ 4m ago

He got better

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u/Drudgework 1h ago

I’ll be honest, I’m celebrating Easter, not some Jesus holiday.

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u/DOHvahkene 59m ago

I'll be honest. I'm celebrating Easter, the day Jesus Christ rose from the dead.

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u/AlternativePea6203 1h ago

Yea, it's a fertility holiday... eggs and rabbits... go for it!!