March 29, 2010
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Renaming Good Friday
A city official in Iowa announced to city employees that Good Friday would now be called “Spring Holiday.”
Apparently this has upset a few people. Here is the link: Link
Do you think Good Friday should be renamed “Spring Holiday?”
Comments (80)
Oh, who cares about those holidays. You only get so many off if you’re Jewish. God damn Jews.
Wait, it’s Passover today?!
FUCK AND I ACCIDENTALLY WORE MY NAZI UNIFORM TO WORK HOW AWKWARD IS THAT
everyone knows it’s still Good Friday, and that they’re still taking off work for it. why bother?
I guess I don’t really have an opinion… it’s not really a day I pay too much attention to. I probably wouldn’t even notice if they changed the name.
Darwin forbid that anyone should ever have to be confronted with the fact that Christians live among them.
I think it’s an unfortunate but ultimately inconsequential fact that Resurrection Sunday in the church calendar falls on the same date as the American holiday of Easter.
I would’ve changed it years ago if I thought it would piss people off.
Absolutely not.
That’s silly. Don’t change the holiday name because you don’t want to celebrate it, just don’t celebrate it.
Honestly, I don’t care as far as religious connotations go. But it’s been Good Friday for centuries and centuries, and no one’s ever really been upset about it. So why not just leave it the way it is?
But then again, everyone likes to be fired up at some point. It’s what makes the world go ’round.
@Drakonskyr - This comment just made my day.
I like how the people that are usually complaining about these things aren’t even the ones that should be offended.
Like white people changing native american school mascots to something different because it is offensive.
Nah just leave it
I’m an atheist and I don’t care what they call it. For me it’s “day to sleep in, thank zeus” mmmkay?
no, that’s politically correct bullshit.
Changing the name doesn’t make a lot of sense. It’s a religious holiday. Everyone else who isn’t that religion but gets the day off should consider it a bonus day off.
@roxics - I totally agree.
If it’s a religious holiday, it’s a religious holiday. You can call it whatever you want, but everyone still knows what day it is. “Spring holiday” just sounds… British.
no! Wth. Thats ridiculous! We wouldn’t even have Good friday if it wasn’t for the meaning behind it. So why the hell would they change it.
They need to go shove one.
Dumb.
Why?! Good Friday is a day to remember the death of Christ for all of us. Spring Holiday sounds too happy for that.
I never understood the “good” part about Good Friday. If I were being executed on Friday. It would be bad Friday and Good Sunday if I arose. Doesn’t that make more sense? I say if you are a Christian you should drop Easter and call it Good Sunday. Why celebrate Christ’s Resurection by naming it after a pagan fertility god?
Now, who are the ones feel offended by the Good Friday?
What the fuck? That’s like, really retarded.
Another example of invasive political correctness. The whole proposal is beyond ridiculous.
Ridiculous.
@ccarothers - that just makes sense, and people don’t do things that make sense!!! but yes, I agree
i don’t think i’ve ever heard anything so dumb in my entire life
Why would you name a holiday “Spring HOLIDAY” .. that is idiocy. I’m sure they can come up with a better name that that.
They should have changed it to horribly awful Friday then they could have kept people working that day and maybe not paid them for it to accent the fact that it was NOT a good day.
Don’t care one way or the other.
Hell no! It’s autumn here!
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That’s actually offensive.
I think people are more likely to get a day off under this name. Plus, the other name doesn’t make much sense.
Oh my Buddha! There are starving families in Africa, child slaves in Indonesia AND they re-named Good Friday?! What has the world come to!
Seriously people, why do you care?
What’s Good Friday?
I used to get so mad about easter baskets… what does a bunny and eggs have to do with the truth behind easter? So… my mom decided to make me spring-time baskets instead of easter ones. People are just scared of religion because of what religion has done in the past… so they think if they call it something else, you won’t have to think about the bad stuff anymore. Good Friday is Good Friday… deal. Good Friday, Easter… it’s about death and life. Not about an easter egg hunt… but will that stop me from hiding eggs around the house and yard for my son to find… nah! haha! As long as you teach them the true meaning of things… culture is culture. Spring is about new life… bunnies happen to do “it” all the time, so I guess they are springy… and they make lots of babies… so new life… but the eggs? hm… maybe that’s all about the which came first question. Who knows. Go spring time Jesus! haha!
I am with the opinion that there is no need to change it. If you don’t care for the holiday, just don’t celebrate. There is no need to get into a fuss over something like a name of a holiday. It is a waste of energy that could be used on something more important.
They can call it whatever they want, it still says Good Friday on the calendar.
Why? It’s a religious holiday. Don’t see other places changing names of other religious days…pfft.
no! that’s crazy.
@ccarothers - agreed
I don’t know why it’s called Good Friday anyway. What’s good about Jesus dying? It should be called Bad Friday or Dark Friday or something like that.
It just sounds dumb
No. Thats really dumb.
I don’t really care, it’s not really the “accurate” date to begin with if you compare it to the Jewish calendar… I am choosing to sit out this Easter, I’ve found it too pagan-ized for my taste.
We’re observing Passover on Wednesday like the Messianic Jews, it’s going to be cool. 
@husbandofawife - Totally. :/
Who cares…a day off is a day off no matter what you call it.
I’ll have that stupid day off. Perfect to start drinking on Thursday night, and blasting some Deicide during the day.
@Drakonskyr - Wow, how cleverz u r!! Oh, I forgot to WRITE IN CAPS. There.
@quicksandbuddy - The British changed the name to “Spring Bank” twenty years ago, at least, but most still call it Easter.
Then Kwanzaa, Christmas, Rosh Hashana, Cinco de Mayo, Veteran’s Day, Easter, Yom Kippur, Ramadan, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents Day, V-Day, and September 11th have to be taken off the calendar too.
Insensitive jack-offs…
Spring Holiday… it’s not Spring in Iowa. haha
Um, no, because that is not what it is.
It’s kind of silly. Just because you have a day off doesn’t mean that you have to celebrate the day for what it’s supposed to be. Jews don’t celebrate Christmas (mostly, unless they’re the progressive type), but they still get Christmas off from work for the most part.
@husbandofawife - I kind of have to agree with you. Iowans! (Idiots out wandering about. Except me. I’m too smart)
that is about the dumbest thing i;ve ever heard !! it just goes to show that the american public needs to get the hell off drugs !
I hate when they change the names of things that have had the same name for longer than anyone can remember. I’m still upset about Columbus Day being changed.
@haloed - atheist?, It takes more faith to be an atheist then to believe in Jesus Christ. I salute you
Keep it. I love when people try to eliminate any Christian Holiday. It just goes to prove where we are headed. Persecution in the United States is coming. But I can’t wait until I’m out of here when the might trumpet sounds. And for all you athiest and people who hate Christians and Jews I know I’m right I read the back of the book and we win. Join the winning side. SEE YA
no.
@catman517 - incorrect, but I am not here to argue with you over something I don’t care about (religion).
How about we just call it Friday and move on with our lives? I’ve been doing it for 23 years and it has worked out great so far.
Notice how only Christian holidays are ever demeaned like this.
The Commiecrats tolerate no other gods before their nanny-state.
No I think they should keep it as is.
it’s just dumb. Good Friday is a Christian holiday, city employees are off for it regardless of faith, so I don’t understand how changing the name would make a difference to the non-Christian employees; unless it’s not mandatory to be off for it, in which case it affects them even less, if they don’t want to take it off ’cause it doesn’t religiously affect them they don’t have to. besides that “spring holiday” is just a dumb meaningless name and will probably be confused with Spring Break.
and even worse than that is they didn’t let the council vote on it like they were supposed to; and btw Tim Hart is totally wrong about the Constitution; that phrase is not in there at all.
and actually they changed it back, ’cause it was stupid. so no worries.
I’m an atheist and I don’t even know what Good Friday is so I couldn’t care less. :p
No idea
Hahahaha. that’s funny.
Better than “non attendance day” at school. (:
Hah, nothing screams Spring Holiday like remembering when a jew was tied to a cross and left there to die.
Thinking about this, it sounds like a Hippie-themed party the KKK would organize on good friday.
I’m from IA and it’s freaking STUPID and ridiculous.
There’s nothing holiday ish about Good Friday. I say fuck ‘em.
“Spring Holiday” sounds like a Gap/Old Navy ad campaign full of sexy white teenagers (and one black teenager) singing about how we need to stock up on new trashy clothes for perfectly innocent spring break fun in the sun.
@randomneuralfirings - HA good one.
its so dumb. there is a reason for us having the day off, its becasue of Jesus. i still needs to be recognized as that.
@ccarothers - EXACTLY.
why are we trying to make everything secular? if you aren’t christian, don’t celebrate christian holidays, don’t throw a fit and demand to rename them.
I WILL KICK THEIR ASSES.
It is not just some cultural holiday like Halloween. It’s religious! Do you know how pissed people would be if we tried to rename RAMADAN? What if I decided to call that “summer holiday?”
I hate it when people try to bastardize religious celebrations just because they are related with cultural commercialization.
@PervyPenguin - It’s because by renaming it Spring Holiday, they’re universalizing it into something that is not religious, so that everyone can celebrate it. Which is not fair to those of us who have that particular faith and named it accordingly.
Everyone else just sees it as a day off. But that’s no reason to get rid of the meaning behind it. Renaming Christmas “winter holiday” would remove the CHRIST aspect and complete its transformation into an obnoxious culturally commercialized mess.
So, yeah. That’s why we care.
Though I mean, I see what you mean. It’s just a name, but it’s WHY they’d change it that bugs me.
@Sirius_Fan_Girl - I know plenty of atheists who celebrate Christmas. The only thing “christ” about Christmas is the first part of the name. That’s it…
It’s turned into a cultural thing.
You guys can still celebrate it, it’ll just be a different name.
Btw, I love Sirius Black.
@PervyPenguin - I mean, yeah, they still celebrate it (and I know a few as well). But they do it because of their families, or gifts, y’know? Not because of it’s actual meaning (I do realize Jesus was most likely not born in December, but I guess someone got totally into their religion at the time and decided it was good. Either way.). Which, because it’s SUPPOSED to be about Christ, removing that to turn it into something else is changing the holiday completely.
We could, under a different name, but I personally don’t think it’s their place to change it. It is a Christian holiday meant to honor a Christian belief. If they want to do something about it, couldn’t they just mandate that it isn’t a nationally recognized holiday, so that Christians would have to ask for leave on that day if they wanted it off? That way it would keep the meaning…
Even though, *cough*, I don’t celebrate it. Just Easter. But I’m thinking I should, heh.
YES! Sirius Black is the coolest. :]
Although I’m not religious, it’s still Good Friday for the people that are.
I suppose if you get off for work or something for it, you could call it “Spring Holiday” but everybody knows what it is anyway.
I don’t really care.
@razzle_dazzle_lip_gloss - i think it is spring in iowa
ok, people are saying Good Friday is not “good”? well, from a Christian standpoint that is completely absurd. not to be preachy, but its called ‘good’ because we have been saved from our sins. a sinless man took our sins for us, so we wouldnt have to suffer an eternity in hell. i think thats better than good! thats great! but again, that is just my Christian view of things. and no, i dont think the name should be changed.