Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
Today is Easter, an important Christian holiday. But it is not marked on the calendar that is part of the Apple software that came with my Apple computer lap top. Today is also April Fools day, and that is marked on the Apple-supplied calendar. For Apple’s programmers, April Fools Day trumps Easter.
How can it be that an American company, Apple, can remember to mark on the calendar Cinco de Mayo (May 5), Mexico’s commemoration of a Mexican army victory of the French in the Battle of Puebla in 1862, but not Easter?
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Hanukkah on December 13, but not Easter?
Kwanzaa on December 26, but not Easter?
Groundhog Day on February 2, but not Easter?
St. Patrick’s Day on March 17, but not Easter?
Earth Day on April 22, but not Easter?
First Day of Ramadan Muslim holiday on May 15, but not Easter?
Eid al-Fitr marking the end of Ramadan on June 15-17, but not Easter?
Eid al-Adha, the Muslim Sacrifice Feast, on August 20, but not Easter?
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, on September 10, but not Easter?
Yom Kippur, Jewish holiday on September 19, but not Easter?
Ashura, Muslim holiday, on September 20, but not Easter?
Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, on November 7, but not Easter?
This is how our culture is stolen and our memories are dimmed. In my day the spring holiday was known as Easter Holiday. Today it is known as Spring Break, a time for drunken and sexually promiscuous bacchanal on Florida’s beaches.
The United States was founded as a Christian nation. It did not mean that a citizen had to be a Christian or be punished or sent off in exile if they were not. It meant simply that you had to consider others and to be able to look yourself in the mirror in the morning. Christianity gave American culture a moral tone. Yes, I know, there were many hypocrites and many evil things done, but there was a standard by which to judge. Where is a standard today to judge Washington’s destruction entirely on the basis of lies of numerous countries and millions of peoples in the 21st century? Except for a handful of people, nothing is said critical of Washington’s massive ongoing war crimes. The American media celebrates the war crimes.
Today an American, or one in the important cities, cannot look himself or herself in the mirror unless they have ripped off some trusting or powerless person or persons. Judging by the carnage that Americans have inflicted in the 21st century alone on Afghans, Iraqis, Libyans, Syrians, Pakistanis, Somalias, Serbians, and, by supporting Israel and Saudi Arabia, on Palestinians and Yemenis, Americans have ceased to consider others except as unexceptional and dispensable people, who can be driven into the ground without upsetting any American’s concept of right and wrong.
Indeed, American “diplomats” tell other governments, “do as I say or we will bomb you into the Stone Age.”
Little wonder the second most important Christian celebration—Easter—has disappeared from Apple Computer’s calendar and that one or two atheists and a handful of Jews have managed to prevent Christmas from any longer being a public celebration. Today Christmas has been reduced to a spending spree.
A country without a unifying moral culture is no longer a country. Yet, what pretends to be a country, the US, is being led into war against Russia, a real country. There is no chance whatsoever of the US prevailing in the oncoming war.
quibble: Easter is the most important Christian holiday.
Without it, the rising of Jesus from the grave, there would be no Christianity or the salvation it offers.
John 3:16
Anon – the rising is of far lesser importance than the dying.
Then why is it named after a pagan goddess?
Because someone wanted to honor paganism and keep people from wondering what the word ‘passover’ means. Christians should be ashamed to use pagan words to refer to our commemorations when we have perfectly good biblical terms for them [ which can be biblically defined ].
Iska – Good Friday is actually the most important Christian holiday. Nothing else is even close.
This PCR article is another piece that really offers nothing of value. Let’s hate America and its leadership. We, everybody, deserve death and destruction. And there is no redemption. P.S. I hate you America, sincerely, PCR. Alrighty then.
On the contrary, the article is pointing out that (((they))) hate you, your religion, your customs, and your holidays. Correctly….
gnome is right, this is a bs article written for the knee jerks. Easter is a floating holiday, they got most of the fixed holidays right.
Let me tell you something, pyrr-ass, Cinco de Mayo is not a national Mexican holiday. The date is remembered as the Battle of Cinco de Mayo when a rag-tag band of Mexicans overcame the French occupiers. It was a battle, the war was won later. The real celebration is Mexican Independence Day on 16 September.
Like St Patrick’s Day celebrations in Chicago, Cinco de Mayo celebrations in LA are a commercial enterprise by breweries to sell beer. So put away your misplaced indignation and knock back a few on 5 May.
As for the story about America being stolen, the same story is told on the other side of the missing wall. Thanks to NAFTA, Mexico is heavily dotted with American fast food eateries and big box stores like Walmart and Home Depot.
Funny that the big box stores ruined small shops but now they complain that Amazon is ruining them. Sheesh. Maybe Uncola can ‘splain it all for us.
They are actually celebrating a victory over the FRENCH?
jimminy, it’s a local celebration in Puebla, the battle-site. Here in America, they are simply celebrating an excuse for drinking, which is what Halloween and all those other holidays really are.
As for Easter, I saw a bunch of idiots driving like crazy on the streets, racing and display of speed. The wife reports two fights at the local liquor store, I’m not sure but I think she said people got shot. Easter, indeed.
seriously— at least they can say they won at least something. Eventually they will be like the Muzzies of Europe.
The muzzies predicted they would conquer Europe without firing a shot and it is happening– the Mexicans have conquered the SouthWest US without a declaration of war also– maybe they are more clever than we give them credit for.
They are the majority in our largest economic state, Americans labour their butts off to pay hundreds of billions in freebies to them, we now must “press two for English” and they get tens of billions in tax returns even without citizenship and many without reportable income. Sadly, it appears as if they are kicking our butts.
In 1991 author William Greider published a book titled “Who Will Tell The People”. It detailed the wholesale bribery occurring under the Capitol Dome and that was almost 30 years ago. JMO but America is gone and there’s no voting our way out of this. There are no Democrat and Republican parties. There’s only the Uniparty, the deep state rubber stamp. As the late, great George Carlin said”…..they’re put there to give you the illusion of choice. You have no choice………”. As the former American empire continues its collapse, I suggest we all turn to our loved ones and see to their current and future needs. There is no Making America Great Again. I’m sorry; but it’s true.
“JMO but America is gone and there’s no voting our way out of this. “
You are confusing America with the United States. America is an idea. The United States is an idea. Which one is the better idea?
[ America will survive the United States ]
Isn’t Apple just wonderful.
Not religious, but this ticks me off.
In full disclosure, I do not own any Apple product – nor will I.
KoKo beat me to it, but I would like to add that if you buy Apple products after they are blatantly supporting the celebration of the musloids and the eradication of the Christians, shame on ya. PCR is just a Russian mouthpiece now and is really starting to chap my ass.
I do not own a single Apple product and won’t going forward. This has to be nipped in the bud by the power of the wallet and where YOU spend your money, this is how YOU can make a difference.
Christianity, at least the evangelical portion of it, has been co-opted and destroyed by the secular zionist ideology beginning more than a century ago with the introduction of the Schofield study bible. Its moral code is now satanic and thus useless. At this moment Israel is gunning down peaceful and defenseless Palestinian protestors and nobody gives a fuck. Gandhi is rolling in his grave. Only that crazy fuck Erdogan has the balls to call it what it is. Terrorism.
What an idiot your have made yourself into, and you most surely will not understand that you have.
Go fuck yourself, tool.
You are correct. Even the Catholic Church has been co-opted…
The “beginning of the end” of traditional Catholicism was sealed with the infiltration of the Catholic Church “Vatican II Ecumenical Council” of the 1960s by Jews and Protestants who were involved in the “modernization” of the Catholic Church.
Much Catholic ritual was discarded, as well as the promotion of the absolution of the Jews for Jesus Christ’s crucifixion and death, despite vitriolic Jewish hatred of Jesus Christ and Christianity which exists to this day. The fact is, the Jews DID get the Romans to crucify Jesus Christ and DID accept full responsibility for the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ. As is the case today, the jews got others (Pontius Pilate) do do their “dirty work” for them…
Abandoning the use of Latin in the Mass destroyed its “universality”. Previous to Vatican II, one could attend Mass anywhere in the Roman Catholic world and understand the meaning of the Mass.
Prohibition of the celebration of the Tridentine Mass (except by special ecclesiastical permission) pushed many Catholics away from the new “Modern Mass” and the New Church, in general…It took a brave Archbishop Lefebvre and the Society of St. Pius X to “push back” against Vatican II and re-legitimize the celebration of the pre-Vatican II Tridentine Mass and other Catholic rites.
In pre-Vatican II times, the priest (celebrant of the Mass) was considered to be a part of the congregation, and a representative of the people.
By turning the priest around to face the congregation, the priest was no longer a representative, but an “actor”, diminishing his status and importance.
One area where the Catholic Church could improve itself involves celibacy, which is NOT Church “dogma” or doctrine. Celibacy was put in place during the middle ages in order to keep Church property from being inherited by family and relatives of priests and bishops. Celibacy was based on purely financial considerations–nothing more. It is interesting to note that Episcopal (Anglican) priests who convert to Catholicism can bring their families with them to the Church while Roman Catholic priests are denied marriage.
That being said, there are traditionalist Catholic Churches such as SSPX (Society of St. Pius X)…
Oh come on. Celibacy was introduced to ensure that only gay men would enter the priesthood. We all know that. Even you know that.
HR….I disagree with that premise.
“Zionism is not Judaism. Judaism is a religion not a race. Many Jews are not Zionists. Most Zionists are not Jews. Many Zionists hate Jews. Opposition to Israel is NOT anti-Semitism.”
George Galloway
Do the parenthesis refer to these, then? I’m not the tool above.
The thousands gathered at the Israeli border will be a perfect comparison to the upcoming thousands of migrants soon to be massing on the US border. Both are unarmed and both will be using global sympathy instead of firepower to further their cause.
The common question is: Are borders enforceable, or are they a part of the old vanishing system that is being done away with by the new “no borders” political system? Either each nation will have its identity expressed as nationalism, or each nation must give in to the “greater good” of embracing no borders and a seat at the table under a United Nations government.
To close, can you separate the Palestinian question from the American question of defining ones borders?
There is nothing in common between the two. The Palestinians are protesting the illegal confiscation of their property in their country. The illegals are…well illegal.
The illeagals are claiming the southwestern states as pax Mexicana before the gringos come on the scene, as are the Palestinians prior to the Jewish occupation. Both are using masses of protesters without weapons; they are closer than you think.
Z – confiscation is only illegal if you cannot hold onto it. Ask any conquered or invaded peoples. So far, Israel is holding onto it, ipso facto, not illegal.
Llpoh- Speaking of holding on to IT, I have read several articles lately that the Chinese are investing 44BILLION in buying up Aussie real estate. Also, they (Chinese) are buying up the farmland there in Oz. To top it off, one in every six people in Oz are now Chinese.
Ipso Facto ! Colonization……..hope you like Chinese food.
BL – do not believe everything you read. There are 1/2 million Chinese in Oz, many students on temp visas. So one in twenty.
Re property, they buy a lot of houses. And would love to huy a lot of farmland. But farmland is now controlled, and they are having a hard time getting permission for it. They keep trying, but are failing.
Re $44 billion, that would be around 70,000 homes at current prices. Not insignificant, but out of 8 or 10 million homes, not a crisis.
Australia is huge, bout the size of mainland US. Even if all the 44 billion (did not verify that number btw) were farmland, it would still be inconsequential. Total value of real estate, just land, is around 5 trillion, so 44 billion does not worry me too much. It has slowed down markedly with new laws and taxes.
Llpoh- The 44 BILLION is earmarked and is aside from all the real estate, businesses and your harbors that have already been purchased. I would keep a eye on the situation, they will change the governance of OZ if they get the chance. Mandarin is already the second language there in Australia.
Z- peaceful protests? Hahahahahahahahahaha! Stop it, you are killing me.
I think Gideon Levy of Haaretz has better information than you:
https://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page//.premium-the-israel-massacre-forces-1.5962852
When are you going to remove those blinders?
I guess the pics of rocks, molotovs, etc. being hurled were fake news.
You were right, though, about one thing – I do not give a single solitary shit what happens to the Palestinians. Or to Israel, either, for that matter. If they hold it, they hold it. If not, not. None of my business.
My iGadget phone has Easter on the calendar. That being said I get the point. I don’t begrudge Apple as much as I do the federal gov’t. Easter is the high holy holiday of the Christian calendar yet our nation, one that was supposedly founded on Christian principles, does not have a federal holiday for this event??!! I’d say the Fed’s are the ones that are most to blame. To the working man “holidays” are as follows: New Years Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Some of us get another holy day call “float” which you get to choose. I only joke to a degree. Good Friday should absolutely be added as a federally recognized holiday.
A jewish menorah is OK in the public square, but not a Christian cross??
What’s wrong with this picture??
How???
Because Google is evil.
How could it be? Yep, that’s a real poser.
Apple and all other Christian-dismissive sellers of goods love Easter, so I am surprised at the neglect on its calendar. Like Christmas, that other beloved Christian celebration, Easter has been torn from its roots and now bears the irrelevant fruit of rabbits, eggs, carrots, lambs, and tulips. From WalMart to the most expensive trinket shops, mass amounts of both practical and decorative items, put out one minute after Valentine’s Day is put away, celebrate everything but the resurrection of Christ. I bet some of Apple’s sellers even offer Easter Specials.
Many Christians have turned their backs on this capitalistic orgy to focus on Resurrection Sunday. This does not imply a desire for dish towels with embroidered tombs or placemats decorated with bloody Jesus on the cross. The mercantile potential, relative to the Easter bunny, just isn’t there.
I’ve thought for while now, usually in the context of the annual Nativity Display Wars, that Christmas should be banned. Send it back inside the walls of great cathedrals and country churches made of wood, to be owned again by the people who actually value the babe born in Bethlehem. Of course, this can’t happen due to the economic largesse that Christ brought along with his poverty-stricken circumstances.
In both cases, the irony is delicious. Despite the fact that the world hates Jesus and his birth and his resurrection (the death not so much), it is bound to the events of his life because of the income they produce. It is especially noteworthy at Christmas, now a worldwide birthday party characterized by every kind of excess in honor of a poor man derided by those who profit the most.
You cannot serve God and Mammon.
Those “one or two atheists” also happen to be joos.
I think PCR needs to perform an update. Both my MacBook Pro and iPhone have Easter listed on the calendar.
Meanwhile, in Israel…
Some of them will be back in Western military uniforms to fight for Israel’s next war. Gotta love irony.
Shitstorm Wizard
Ever since I was an intern
I’ve watched the great ones fall
From Nixon down to Clinton
I must have seen them all
But I ain’t seen nothing like him
In any Congress hall
That deft dumb and blond kid
Sure tweets a mean shit storm!
He stands like an Alpha,
He’s part of the oligarchs
Pulling all the levers
Always playing to win
He tweets by intuition,
The approval ratings fall
That deft dumb and blond kid
Sure tweets a mean shit storm!
He’s a shit storm wizard
There has got to be a tweet
A shit storm wizard,
S’got such a supple wrist
What will he do with DACA? I don’t know!
What makes him so mean?
He ain’t got no distractions
Can’t hear the critics give him hell
Don’t see stocks a crashin”
Tweets by sense of smell
Always gets the front page
Never seen him fail
That deft dumb and blond kid
Sure tweets a mean shit storm!
I thought I was
The Shit-stirring king
But I just handed
My shit storm crown to him
Even on my favorite issue
He can beat my best
His instincts lead him in
His demons do the rest
He’s got crazy tweeter fingers
Never seen him fail
That deft dumb and blond kid
Sure tweets a mean shit storm!
I have been waiting for someone to bring attention to the -459 DOW close, is this a continuing trend? What will be the magic number when people finally realize it’s going over the cliff?
Or it’s the sentient market signalling it’s displeasure at a Syrian premature withdrawal.
Easter and Christmas give Christians so much Joy and Hope that I cannot imagine any other Religion having anything close. I apologize if ancient writers added some mythical stories; that’s a shame because it was totally unnecessary; the Holy Shroud in Turin Italy and the Face Cloth in Oviedo Spain validate the Crucifixion reports. Jesus lives (ref Youtube).