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Happy Valentine’s Day

13 February, 2010

Celebrating, of course, the 3rd Century Christian martyr (or martyrs) who, according to:

The Legenda Aurea of Jacobus de Voragine, compiled about 1260 and one of the most-read books of the High Middle Ages, gives sufficient details of the saints for each day of the liturgical year to inspire a homily on each occasion. The very brief vita of St Valentine has him refusing to deny Christ before the “Emperor Claudius” in the year 280. Before his head was cut off, this Valentine restored sight and hearing to the daughter of his jailer. Jacobus makes a play with the etymology of “Valentine”, “as containing valour”.  (From Wikipedia)

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A Day Out With The (((Wife))). With Pictures.

14 April, 2009

(((Wife))) and I had something unusual on Monday:  shared days off.  So we loaded up the ice chest (home-made bread, some hard salami, aged cheddar, marinated artichoke hearts, roasted and fresh red pepper (just basic stuff)) and headed to a foreign country.  Well, not a foreign country, just New Jersey.  To Sandy Hook, part of Gateway National Recreation Area.

We saw three horseshoe crabs. Dead, but we still saw three:

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Happy Jewish Zombie Day

12 April, 2009

Happy Easter — the one truly Christian holiday with no borrowings from pre-Christian religions.  Well, alright, the Last Supper was, supposedly, a Seder, which is, of course, Jewish.  And the eggs are a pre-Christian fertility symbol.  As is the bunny rabbits.  And the ham was borrowed from the gentiles as a way of saying, “See, we’re no longer Jews, so stop persecuting us.”  And the Easter baskets are also a pagan holdover.  And the lamb, which should have been a sacrificial offering, has just morphed into moulded butter which we chop up with knives.  So.  Christ (if, of course, he actually lived) was Christian, right?  No, he was a Jew and a Rabbi.

Well, happy Jewish Zombie Day anyway.  Now I gotta go to work.

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Here is a good (non-snark, no sarcasm) view of the pre-Christian origions of Easter (History.com).

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