Re: Religion returns to Easter

Douglas Berry <penguin_boy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> I don't know what the holidays were like in ancient Judea.  Maybe
>> they stuffed an extra day in the *middle* of the weekend, given
>> that it was somehow three days from Good Friday to Easter Sunday.

> Remember that the Hebrew calendar starts a day at sundown.

I don't see how that helps.  Whether the day starts at sundown, at
sunrise, at midnight, or at noon, Friday to Sunday is two days.

> Sometime after sundown on Saturday, decides that this "dead" thing
> is for other people, and comes back.  Mary Magdalene wanders by the
> next morning (either alone or with a tour group, depending on where
> you are getting your story from) and immediately demands a writ of
> Habeas Corpus.  Day Three, and everyone goes off to confuse matters
> by naming the holiday after a Saxon goddess.

You're double counting.  If the day begins at sundown, then "sometime
after sundown" is the same day as "the next morning."
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