Holiday Gestapo Put Your Guns Away- I am going to Celebrate Holy Week....
"Hold it! I think I found an Easter Liturgy!" It's Holy Week! Palm Sunday...Maundy Thursday...Good Friday...Resurrection Sunday. Aren't you excited? If you are, there is little need to read this post unless you want some cannon fodder. If you are rolling your eyes at me and muttering "Papist" under your breath then by all means continue reading. I am appalled, stunned, outraged and disgusted with the "Holiday Gestapo" who love to point to the pagan roots of Christmas and Easter, the lack of Biblical grounds and generally tear down these two holidays. And these are Christians who do this! Generally, there are two objections, the pagan elements supposedly just oozing out of them and the hardcore application of the Regulative Principle. Since the Passion Week is more or less free from pagan influence (the name Easter is derived from the name "Ishtar"- a Babylonian goddess. However, most people do not think of Ishtar when they he