Sunday, March 31, 2013

Upside Down & Backwards

While over-thinking the entire sado-masochistic Easter mess it occurred to us that south of the equator the Xian festival of rebirth (Completely different & has nothing to do w/ any other supernatural scams' spring fests!) is celebrated in the fall, the season of dying & death. Is Xianity designed only for those in the more populous hemisphere, even 'though whatever increase in suckers Catholics & other denominations are enjoying is mostly in the global south?

Or is it actually more appropriate for a death-fetishizing faith tradition that pretends no one really dies to observe "rebirth" even as the leaves are falling from the trees?

1 comment:

Substance McGravitas said...

You have to occupy the right festivals. I'm sure there are some southern rituals to co-opt.