johnl (02/17/83)
#N:ima:21800002:000:834 ima!johnl Feb 16 18:39:00 1983 I see that Good Friday comes on April 1 this year. Does anybody care to comment on the theological significance of this? In a slightly more serious vein, I wonder why born-again types in most religions get so touchy when challenged. I've always been a Unitarian (well, I was baptized a Congregationalist but it was a semantic error; it was supposed to be Universalist) and you can imagine the amount of grief people have given me over the years, e.g. a Unitarian dies, and finds a fork in the road with a sign, one way pointing to Heaven and the other to a discussion about heaven... I don't much mind, though; I realize most people don't agree with me and reserve the right to take their religion no more seriously than they take mine. Interesting responses to the net, examples of touchiness to /dev/null, please. John Levine
jss (02/18/83)
One Sunday evening I was at a gathering, talking to a friend, when another person came up and said to my friend, "I didn't see you at Unitarian services this morning." My friend replied "Well, it's Easter, and I thought I ought to go to church instead." This is not a joke, or a made-up story, or intended as an insult to anyone. I was there and I heard it. judith !decvax!brunix!jss