http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/201...y#comments

Wow, this guy makes Chris Chase look smart

Quote:Religious observances intersect this year for two major faiths. As Christians around the world continue their Holy Week with Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday, Jews will begin Passover on Friday at sunset

And people actually go to the news and believe they learn things?

(04-06-2012 02:44 PM)DrTorch Wrote:  http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/201...y#comments

Wow, this guy makes Chris Chase look smart

Quote:Religious observances intersect this year for two major faiths. As Christians around the world continue their Holy Week with Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday, Jews will begin Passover on Friday at sunset

And people actually go to the news and believe they learn things?

Just wow...

Yes Maunday Thursday, Good Friday and Easter overlap this year...

Quote:The confluence comes as the Jewish lunar-based calendar makes the 15th of the Hebrew month of Nisan fall on Good Friday.

Like it does *every year*

That's what happens when you let the heathens write about such things.

(04-06-2012 02:44 PM)DrTorch Wrote:  Wow, this guy makes Chris Chase look smart

Nothing can make that idiot look smart.

Maybe the "journalist" was looking at my holiday schedule this year? For the first time, we are celebrating both Passover and Easter as a family.

Otherwise....he's an idiot.

I don't get it.

(04-08-2012 11:14 AM)BleedsHuskieRed Wrote:  I don't get it.

Really?

Coming this winter:

"This year Christmas and New Years will be just a week apart".

Look for it.

Loved that title to the thread. I'm thinking - new low? The bar is set awfully low right now. The newest new lows will soon be underground.

(04-08-2012 12:34 PM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  

(04-08-2012 11:14 AM)BleedsHuskieRed Wrote:  I don't get it.

Really?

Are passover and Easter always on the same day? I've never been Jewish so I don't know when their holidays are. Of course my mom took to church for 16 years but I still didn't know Easter was today until two weeks ago.

(04-08-2012 08:26 PM)BleedsHuskieRed Wrote:  

(04-08-2012 12:34 PM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  

(04-08-2012 11:14 AM)BleedsHuskieRed Wrote:  I don't get it.

Really?

Are passover and Easter always on the same day? I've never been Jewish so I don't know when their holidays are. Of course my mom took to church for 16 years but I still didn't know Easter was today until two weeks ago.

Passover and good Friday are always the same day... Christians use the Jewish calendar to set the holiday..

(04-08-2012 08:44 PM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  

(04-08-2012 08:26 PM)BleedsHuskieRed Wrote:  

(04-08-2012 12:34 PM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  

(04-08-2012 11:14 AM)BleedsHuskieRed Wrote:  I don't get it.

Really?

Are passover and Easter always on the same day? I've never been Jewish so I don't know when their holidays are. Of course my mom took to church for 16 years but I still didn't know Easter was today until two weeks ago.

Passover and good Friday are always the same day... Christians use the Jewish calendar to set the holiday..

And now I know why Easter always moves. And why the 10 Commandments is always shown this weekend (that always used to confused me why that had to do with Easter.)

(04-08-2012 08:44 PM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  

(04-08-2012 08:26 PM)BleedsHuskieRed Wrote:  

(04-08-2012 12:34 PM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  

(04-08-2012 11:14 AM)BleedsHuskieRed Wrote:  I don't get it.

Really?

Are passover and Easter always on the same day? I've never been Jewish so I don't know when their holidays are. Of course my mom took to church for 16 years but I still didn't know Easter was today until two weeks ago.

Passover and good Friday are always the same day... Christians use the Jewish calendar to set the holiday..

Just out of curiosity, when did passover begin in 2011 and when was easter in 2011? Thanks.

(04-08-2012 08:44 PM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  

(04-08-2012 08:26 PM)BleedsHuskieRed Wrote:  

(04-08-2012 12:34 PM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  

(04-08-2012 11:14 AM)BleedsHuskieRed Wrote:  I don't get it.

Really?

Are passover and Easter always on the same day? I've never been Jewish so I don't know when their holidays are. Of course my mom took to church for 16 years but I still didn't know Easter was today until two weeks ago.

Passover and good Friday are always the same day... Christians use the Jewish calendar to set the holiday..

Not exactly. Christians use a combined solar/lunar calendar to set Easter whereas Passover is set based on a totally lunar calendar. The result is that in something like 3 or 4 out of every 19 years, the two can be as much as a month apart. But in the vast majority of cases, Passover and Easter are close enough to make the premise of the original article stupid, as duly noted.

(04-09-2012 04:16 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(04-08-2012 08:44 PM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  

(04-08-2012 08:26 PM)BleedsHuskieRed Wrote:  

(04-08-2012 12:34 PM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  

(04-08-2012 11:14 AM)BleedsHuskieRed Wrote:  I don't get it.

Really?

Are passover and Easter always on the same day? I've never been Jewish so I don't know when their holidays are. Of course my mom took to church for 16 years but I still didn't know Easter was today until two weeks ago.

Passover and good Friday are always the same day... Christians use the Jewish calendar to set the holiday..

Not exactly. Christians use a combined solar/lunar calendar to set Easter whereas Passover is set based on a totally lunar calendar. The result is that in something like 3 or 4 out of every 19 years, the two can be as much as a month apart. But in the vast majority of cases, Passover and Easter are close enough to make the premise of the original article stupid, as duly noted.

Why am I not surprised our board genius would chime in and correct everyone.