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Welcome to our blog, if you believe in God
and this post, Palms and Easter 2017
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This is what we commemorate at Easter. We the Roman Catholic and other Christian religions follow the event of the death of our lord Jesus Christ. And then his resurrection.
Palms and Easter 2017
Dear readers, I
am writing this post instead of our usual post, because in blogger we can post
what we like, even if it is an article that has been published somewhere else,
or has been rejected, because it may not be in line with rule of the site we
want to publish. So, in a way I am posting this post, to keep a record of what
I have written.
Anyhow, today I
wanted to write this religious article, because soon it will be Easter, so, I
was going to write this article, where I would have liked to tell you all the
good religious things, that happen in this religious feast, but it is not going
to happen like that, because of the horrible things that religions inflict each
other’s these days. Here I am talking about what has just happened in Egypt.
I have always
believed that religions should stand for doing the right things: here I want to
say that religions should be a set of rules, written in such a way that the
entire world should benefit, and not just a group of people. Any religion that
does not fulfil that role is not a good religion. Today there is also this
additional issue, because today the entire world is going global, also religions
need to go global; for religions to work and satisfy the need of the people.
For this reason, those religions that do not allow for globalization should be
modified, but religious leaders don’t even think about it, because they want to
follow their religion the old way, which allows them to control the people,
even when controlling people in certain ways is wrong, but there are even more
bad things here. In fact, I am shocked from what is just happened recently in
Egypt.
One has to ask,
does the world realize what has happened now? Two Christian churches have been
bombed, 45 people have died, and 125 injured. What hurts most is that the
people that have caused this disaster are religious fanatics, of another
religion.
Having seen all
this happen, one can only say that there is something very wrong, in this
Muslim religion, since some of their believer practice so much violence, and
worse still is that they believe that their God Allah wants them to kill other
people. What other proof the world needs, to prove that this religion is a fake
religion, since they twist their religion any way they want. But perhaps, I
dare say that this Muslim religion may even be okay, if the faithful follow it
the right path only, in other words, they should use their common sense, which
would usually forbid any violence.
Anyhow, if the
religious fanatics continue to follow all those things that harms other people,
then this religion is not worth the paper it is written on. This would also
affect their God Allah that allows them to use his name doing the wrong things.
Because they would bring their God Allah down to their level. When I believe
that Allah is a righteous God, and does not like what they do.
You see, it
stands to human understanding, that a God should be well above our human needs,
and does not need to kill other people, or wants his own people to kill other
people. If there is any spiritual entity that wants to kill people, then this
spiritual entity is not a God, it cannot be, because God represents life, and
therefore should protect life. Therefore, in my opinion, those people that go
out to kill other people are completely nuts, especially when they believe that
they will go to paradise when they pass away.
But let us stop
here talking about these very violent deeds, and let us see here under, what
other religions believe in, specially the Christian religions, since that is
the religion that I would know most. I believe that some religions would be
better than this Muslim religion that allows violence, just because, their
religious rules condemn violence more openly.
The Christian religions
So, let us compare,
this violent deeds that we have talked about, to the Christian religions.
Because, it is so wrong what has happened in Egypt to these two Coptic Christian
churches. But what hurts most is that the people that have caused all these
deaths and hurt so many people are religious people. For any Christian
religious believer, what has happened on Palm Sunday is so painful and
disgusting, because Palm Sunday is perhaps the greatest day of peace for any
Christian religion. It is the day that our Lord Jesus Christ enters Jerusalem,
riding a donkey, while the population brings these olive branches and other
palms in the sign of peace. So, this day is supposed to bring peace, as I am
going to explain in the following example.
Now let me
point out this to you, in Southern Italy in the town that I come from, the way
that we celebrate Palm Sunday is to make peace, this could extend even to your
enemies, if you want. So, let me explain what we do this special Sunday, first
we go to mass taking with us a small olive branch, where the priest after
celebrating mass blesses these olive branches or anything green that you have
brought with you. Now, this is only the beginning of how the people behave on
Palm Sunday; because after the mass when the blessing ends, the people going
out of the churches, exchange some of their palms in the sign of peace, once
that is over you may call to the house of some relative or friends, if you
haven’t met them at the church. Now, let me add this personal note, when I was
young, after the church service I went home, my mother would ask me if I had
gone to our closest relative to exchange this palm, because this would be a
sign of respect for the relative elders. But there is also more, if you had a
girlfriend this was a good time to exchange the blessed palm, and have a small
talk, you see in those times boys and girls were kept at a distance, so, this
was a good excuse to talk to her; and then again, if you were engaged, you
should really go to buy a small golden olive branch from the Jeweller’s shop,
take it to church to be blessed and then give it to you fiancé`. So, Palm
Sunday was a very peaceful, happy and interesting day.
But those were
the good times, when everything was done the old peaceful ways, which in my
opinion were very good times to live in, even if in the small towns that we
were living in, boys and girls were kept at a distance, and the religions that
we were following had a lot to do with this tradition.
Now that we
have explained, how we were living the old times and what we did on Palm
Sunday, we are going to talk about what has happened in Egypt, and other things
that could follow that happening.
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What has
happened in Egypt?
As we have
already said, we have been shocked from what has happened in Egypt, but the
worse part of it all, is that this violence could be repeated, we hope not, but
it is hard to say what could happen next.
Anyhow, since
then a few other things have happened, and the pope has been in Egypt, while he
was there he has tried to calm down everybody, in the name of all religions,
So, we hope that what he has done could help.
I believe that
this is what I want to say, so, see you next time with another post.
May God bless
us all?
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If you believe in God
Palms and Easter 2017
IS TO BE CONTINUED
Next time with, God is hope for those who need hope most
If you believe in God
Palms and Easter 2017
IS TO BE CONTINUED
Next time with, God is hope for those who need hope most
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