Friday the 13th
May 13, 2022 at 6:05 pm
(This post was last modified: May 13, 2022 at 6:06 pm by Fake Messiah.)
So today is the dreaded Friday the 13th.
From what I understand, Friday the 13th is unlucky because Christians considered Friday to be an unlucky day (Jesus died on Friday), and because they consider the number 13 to be unlucky, so combine these two "dreadful" things and you get something very unlucky. Although I guess that there is no possible way to say with certainty why this is considered to be the unlucky day since there are other hypotheses, just like with the origin of the word "OK".
Also, do you notice people still doing rituals to avoid curses? Like I still see people sometimes spitting three times when a black cat crosses their path.
From what I understand, Friday the 13th is unlucky because Christians considered Friday to be an unlucky day (Jesus died on Friday), and because they consider the number 13 to be unlucky, so combine these two "dreadful" things and you get something very unlucky. Although I guess that there is no possible way to say with certainty why this is considered to be the unlucky day since there are other hypotheses, just like with the origin of the word "OK".
Also, do you notice people still doing rituals to avoid curses? Like I still see people sometimes spitting three times when a black cat crosses their path.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
