How White House & Google celebrate Easter 2013

Other than Christmas, Easter is the most important day for Christians.

Despite the POS’s proclamation on June 28, 2006, that America was “no longer a Christian nation,” Christianity remains the most popular faith in the United States, with around 73% of polled Americans identifying themselves as Christian in 2012. In the mid-1990s the United States had the largest Christian population on earth, with 224 million Christians.

To the 73% of Americans who are Christians — and especially if you had voted for Obama in 2008 and/or 2012 — here’s something to think about:

Obama will be celebrating Easter tomorrow with a “Yoga Garden” for children and their parents attending the traditional White House Easter Egg Roll. Yoga is one of the six orthodox schools of Hinduism — the predominant and decidedly nonChristian religion of India.

Obama as Shiva, the supreme god in Hinduism

Charlie Spiering reports for The Examiner that the White House issued an announcement that President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will include a “Yoga Garden” for children and their parents who attend the traditional Easter Egg Roll festivities on Monday.  “Come enjoy a session of yoga from professional instructors,” the announcement reads. The event’s theme is “Be Healthy, Be Active, Be You!”

Meanwhile, if you had used the Google search engine today, you would have seen this ↓ instead of the traditional logo:

So who is that man?

On the Google search results page, if you place your cursor on the second “o” of “Google,” you’ll see this:

Cesar Chavez’s 86th Birthday

Yes. Instead of remembering the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, Google chooses instead to commemorate what would have been the 86th birthday of a Marxist union organizer (United Farm Workers Union). Chavez died 20 years ago, in 1993.

Some Christians are calling for a boycott of Google.

Seriously, if you’re still Googling, you should know that Google not only keeps track of all your searches, the company also “helpfully” makes its data available to the feral [sic] government.

Please use these alternatives to Google instead:

1. Ixquick
2. DuckDuckGo
3. Bing

Both Ixquick and DuckDuckGo are “private” search engines that don’t track your Internet searches. Bing is owned by Microsoft.

America is still a Christian nation.

But America’s political and cultural elites are not just no longer Christian, they are virulently anti-Christian.

~Eowyn

The Empty Tomb

It was very early on the first day of the week and still dark, when Mary of Magdala came to the tomb. She saw that the stone had been moved away from the tomb and came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb,” she said, “and we don’t know where they have put him.” So Peter set out with the other disciple to go to the tomb. They…saw the linen cloths lying on the ground…and…believed. Till this moment they had still not understood the scripture, that he must rise from the dead. -John 20:1-9

Here’s a reconstruction of what happened from the book The Truth About the Shroud of Turin (Regnery, 2010), pp. 189-191, by my friend Robert K. Wilcox. No matter how many times I read this, it never fails to move me to tears.

The tomb, a rocky chamber carved out of a hillside, a stone rolled against the door, is dark and silent. Lying on a slab is a long, rectangular cocoon, the hills and valleys of which are clearly the contours of a human body. The body of Jesus lies there, face up, a ribbon around the head and chin to keep the mouth closed, packed on all sides with bags of spices.

At some unknown moment in the dead of night, the air in the tomb becomes electric.

At first the vibrations are minute, the sort that could be detected by sensitive twentieth-century instruments; then they dramatically increase until they shake the ground and blow the boulder from the door.

A glow, faint at first, emanating from the shroud suddenly intensifies until rays of light shoot through the threads, star-filled golden rays filling the tomb and pouring out the door.

For thirty seconds — no more — the blinding, pulsating movement continues.

The source of the activity is the corpse, the body, somehow being revitalized, dematerialized, its mass being converted into energy, pure energy, which in the material world is radiant white light.

The body rises from the slab through the cloth, hovers for a moment in midair, then disappears.

The cocoon collapses. Darkness returns. Shouts of “Earthquake! Earthquake!” diminish as the guards run for their lives. And in the air, the distinct odor of scorched linen.

When dawn comes, the women in Jesus’ life draw tentatively toward the tomb, look in the opening, and see the shroud unopened, still wrapped, but definitely deflated. The body is gone. At sunrise the disciples come. John enters the tomb, puts his hand on the cloth, and presses it to the slab. Jesus is there no longer. The disciples and the women quickly gather up the burial garments — the chin band is still in the shroud — and the spice bags and leave before the Romans can return.

At another time, in another place, when they have a chance to gather their wits, they will discover the figure of their master imprinted on the inside of the shroud. The images would be faint, probably not as dark as the passage of time and exposure to air have made them; and the images would be negative ones, a phenomenon that would also become clearer with the passage of time. Regardless, they would view these images as holy — imprints of their precious Lord. The disciples would pay more attention to the images on the shroud if they weren’t already waiting, with the greatest anticipation, for Jesus himself, who, before his death, had promised to visit them after he rose from the dead.

Our Lord is Risen!

A Joyous Easter to all!

~Eowyn

The Ballad of the Cross

Rarely have I found music and images that marry so perfectly.  ~LTG

James J. Tissot (French painter and illustrator, 1836-1902) was a well-known French impressionist painter, who in his later years travelled twice to the Holy Land in order to produced a series of 700 accurate watercolor drawings to illustrate the Old and New Testaments — especially the life of Christ.    http://www.joyfulheart.com/easter/tissot-passion.htm