“Whether you are Jewish. and you are celebrating Passover. or you may not even celebrate Easter the way I do, at the end of the day it’s about community. At the end of the day, it is about people coming together. And realizing that we’re bigger than just individuals.”
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Utah Teacher Apologizes for Making Student Scrub Ash-Cross from his Forehead
The new narrative in the case of a Utah public school teacher who asked a student to scrub his Ash-Wednesday cross from his forehead is that it looked like dirt. A smudge. Just being thoughtful, No harm intended. The student’s grandmother isn’t buying it.
Cesar Chavez…More Important than Easter?
Today is Easter Sunday. Whether you are into the religious significance or not, it is a long celebrated holiday by a large number of people on the planet. The Eggs and bunny thing is certainly a feature of the modern holiday and a noted aspect throughout Europe for centuries, with or without Jesus. So why did Google, the most invasive Internet presence on the entire planet, decide to use their Google ‘Doodle’ to celebrate…the birth of Cesar Chavez?
Don’t they know about Easter?
Google, is this a form of “evil”? Or is elevation of the political over religion “not evil”?
Update: Sometimes we do clash on topics (great minds and all that); Grokster Steve posted on this as well – PLEASE read his post as well!
Today is Easter, the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Google is well known for celebrating certain days with their “doodle art” when you go to their home page – and some of it is quite clever. Today, for the billions of Christians celebrate their holiest of remembrances, do you think that Google just might acknowledge that? Well, you tell me?
No, I’m not sure that it it “outright” evil (Google’s motto is “Don’t be evil” but has come under great criticism lately for seemingly skirting that when it comes to profit making) but amidst rumors that Google might be playing games politically with the results of its searches when it comes to conservative vs progressive issues, this doesn’t optic well.
Eric Schmidt, the former head of Google is buddy-buddy with Obama (which shows his political leanings) and is an avowed Greenie (hates fossil energy companies). His former company, Google,
He “IS” Risen! Happy Easter!
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