Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 21, 2015
Transcript:
Caulfield: How long has this lent thing been going on? Frazz: Hmmmm...a couple thousand years? Caulfield: No, I mean this time around. Frazz: What do you think? Caulfield: Just long enough for the deprived to really start getting cranky out there. Frazz: There you go.
Not only is Easter not fixed, but it’s BROKEN and inconstant. Everything else is a date – all of the saints’ days, Christmas, they’re all supposed to be anniversaries (including a birthday). With Easter, first someone figured it should move to match with the Last Supper – which was a Passover Seder – which, by the way, always happens on the same day if you count by the LUNAR calendar. It’s always the 15th of the month. Then, having messed up the normal calendar connection, someone decided that people were too stupid to do a countdown and keep track of what happened 5,4,3,2,1, 0 days before The Big Day, so it got moved to the nearest Sunday so that the story could be simplified in terms of Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. So now it’s not a normal calendar anniversary, and not even a lunar calendar anniversary . . . it’s floating in disconnected nothingness. I think they call that “limbo”.