EARTH DAY VERSUS GOOD FRIDAY

This year, we’ve had the odd confluence of holidays in which Friday April 22 is both Earth Day and Good Friday and since they both happen to fall on the same day it provides me with the rare opportunity to compare and contrast the two.
One is the most important day for ecologists and environmental activists, the other the most important day for christians.
christians might argue that christmas day is the most important date on the Christian calendar, but it really isn’t when you get down to it.
It’s today, good Friday. For the basis of christianity—and Christian faith---is centered on christ’s death, his alleged sacrifice of his mortal body so that god his father would forgive the rest of us mortals our sins, just so long as we believe in him. Not sure how the son of god dying wipes out my sins, but that’s a topic for another essay.
Good Friday, despite the name, is the centerpiece of the christian prioritizing the afterlife above life itself. It is what I term the Christian ‘hatred of life’
Earth Day, on the other hand, is a complete celebration of natural life on Earth along with serving as a ‘call to arms’ for people to do more for the world in which they live and that provides them with everything they have.
Christianity’s environmental record is spotty at best; the ‘Wise Use’ movement is heavily indoctrinated with Christians. For those not familiar, the ‘Wise Use’ movement justifies environmental degradation so long as it benefits humanity—or more specifically, benefits the stockholders of large corporations who either pollute or rape the earth for profit.
Look no further to the prime symbol of Christianity—the crucifix, depicting jesus christ dying on the cross. While Earth Day’s symbol is a green ring or circle (with a rectangular block), a circle being a symbol of infinity.
There’s no getting around it, even more so on a rare day such as this when the stark contrast between these two celebrations is magnified, one holiday celebrating life (Earth Day), while the other venerates death as the highest ideal (Good Friday).