I Want A New High Holy Day

People get excited about Palm Sunday because on that day we remember that Jesus rode into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey while people who soon would be shouting “Crucify Him!” instead for the moment shouted “Hosanna”.  We get excited about Easter!  Not so much that we rename it from its original name celebrating the pagan goddess of fertility “Eastre”. 

But I want to come up with a new high holiday on the Christian calendar.  Today is the  1976th anniversary of the day that Christ threw the moneychangers out of the Temple!  Seriously, we don’t make a big enough deal out of this great day in our Christian history! 

First we need a name – something catchy!   We could call it Huckster Holiday, Copeland Commemorative Cast-out, Creflo’s Dollar Deliverance Day, or Blood Money Monday.  

We’ll need some new traditions.  We could all cancel our cable television service (maybe just block certain channels) or each church could throw some symbolic items out the front doors of their church on every Blood Money Monday (my working title).  They could throw out a couple of bucks for the poor to pick up along with some sweat hankies, prayer cloths, anointing oil,  and “Covenant Partnership Auto-Debit Forms”.

We’ve made a pretty big deal out of Good Friday and most people now take a dim view of killing God.  Maybe if we could get a little enthusiam behind Blood Money Monday people might find it distasteful to use God’s name to extort funds from weak minded people. 

If we can’t build any excitement over creating Blood Money Monday, maybe we can celebrate “Tears for the Simpleton Sunday” to commemorate when Jesus cried over the city of Jerusalem because the people just didn’t get it.

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