Today is Friday the 13th - considered by many to be a day of evil and bad luck. But, does anyone ever wonder WHY it is considered that?? Well, once again, we can thank the Christians for evil deeds and demonizing other cultures...
Friday was actually considered quite lucky by pre-Christian Teutonic peoples, we are told — especially as a day to get married — because of its traditional association with love and fertility. All that changed when Christianity came along. The goddess of the sixth day — most likely Freya in this context, given that the cat was her sacred animal — was recast in post-pagan folklore as a witch, and her day became associated with evil doings.
Another historical fact is it came about not as the result of a convergence, but a catastrophe, a single historical event that happened nearly 700 years ago.
The catastrophe was the decimation of the Knights Templar, the legendary order of "warrior monks" formed during the Christian Crusades to combat Islam.
2007-04-13 05:45:21 · 13 answers · asked by ? 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Renowned as a fighting force for 200 years, by the 1300s the order had grown so pervasive and powerful it was perceived as a political threat by kings and popes alike and brought down by a church-state conspiracy, as recounted by Katharine Kurtz in Tales of the Knights Templar (Warner Books: 1995):
"On October 13, 1307, a day so infamous that Friday the 13th would become a synonym for ill fortune, officers of King Philip IV of France carried out mass arrests in a well-coordinated dawn raid that left several thousand Templars — knights, sergeants, priests, and serving brethren — in chains, charged with heresy, blasphemy, various obscenities, and homosexual practices. None of these charges was ever proven, even in France — and the Order was found innocent elsewhere — but in the seven years following the arrests, hundreds of Templars suffered excruciating tortures intended to force 'confessions,' and more than a hundred died under torture or were executed by burning at the stake."
2007-04-13 05:45:32 · update #1
WHAT ELSE SHALL WE THANK CHRISTIANITY FOR??
2007-04-13 05:46:16 · update #2
I never knew Friday the 13ths origins. That's cool. Thank you.
2007-04-13 05:48:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Uh, so? Something bad happened on a Friday the 13th and it got a bad rep. If it comes about that Sept. 11th is considered a day of bad omens, will you say "Blame the Muslims" or if Dec. 7th is a day of bad omens, "Blame the Japanese"?
And I highly doubt that all the supersition that follows Friday the 13th is purely from Christians.
It's a day, big deal. So what if the whole, "day of bad tidings" came after a Christian defeat. It's now just a day in the year that we all get together and have fun with supersition.
2007-04-13 13:00:12 · answer #2 · answered by sister steph 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
We can thank Christianity for the founding of America and the settlement by Christian Puritans, Moravian, Quakers and Ana baptists. We can thank them for institutions of higher education like Harvard, Yale, Penn and so many more. We can thank them for hospitals, newspapers, radio and television networks and most of what is good today.
2007-04-15 14:15:38 · answer #3 · answered by jerry806 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wow. I didn't know this. I've always had wonderful days on Friday the 13th. I love Fridays in general. lol!
2007-04-13 12:49:46 · answer #4 · answered by swordarkeereon 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Thanks for the history lesson.
I suppose the question here is the last line.."What else should we thank Christians for?"
Gosh... have there been any other great killing sprees they've conducted to rid the world of themselves? I guess I'd thank them for that if there's no other peaceful and more efficient way of eliminating the surge of their belief upon the world.
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2007-04-13 19:06:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thank them for perverting our holidays, and for 1500 years of hatred and malice. *sigh* cant live with ‘em cant feed ‘em to the lions anymore
2007-04-13 15:01:39 · answer #6 · answered by Goddess Nikki 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
So what does this have to do with Jesus?
Didn't Jesus say to love your neighbor as yourself? I don't understand your rantings and ravings about nothing concerning the teachings of Jesus.
2007-04-13 12:50:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
All I have to say to all of that is JESUS
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2007-04-13 13:50:23 · answer #8 · answered by Kermit 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Thanks for the information -- very interesting, and good to know the truth.
2007-04-13 12:51:56 · answer #9 · answered by SB 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I thought it was something like that. Thanks for the info, it was interesting.
2007-04-13 12:54:24 · answer #10 · answered by KC 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋