Fireworks display on Good Friday

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So I was about to retire last night, after a long Good Friday which I spent working and worshipping. It was about 9:30pm, and I was worried about hearing my neighbors’ music too loudly, but I became aware that fireworks were being blasted nearby. I came to find out that these fireworks were the celebration of a sports team of the nearby university.

What do you think of scheduling this kind of jubilation on the most somber day of the year for Christians? To me, it is just another sign of the Satanic influence pervading this university’s sports teams, and moreover, a sign of the loss of Christian values in American society. Anti-Catholicism is the Last Acceptable Prejudice. This unfortunate scheduling was probably not a deliberate act, and who knows if anyone thought to bring it up beforehand, but the information about Good Friday is available to anyone who wants it.

I wonder if fireworks would be scheduled on Yom Kippur. I wonder if there would be celebrations on the opening of Ramadan. It would be likewise shameful. But then, I suppose it is a free country. And if we avoided all religions’ mourning days, we would probably never be able to schedule any celebration at all.
 
The university wouldn’t happen to be still in the NCAA basketball tournament, would they? The fireworks may not have been deliberately scheduled on Good Friday. It may be only a coincidence, an unfortunate one, that they won the game that advances them to the next round and the game just happened to fall on Good Friday. If its because of this reason, the fireworks would have gone off no matter what the day of religious affiliation.
 
Elizium23 said:
So I was about to retire last night, after a long Good Friday which I spent working and worshipping. It was about 9:30pm, and I was worried about hearing my neighbors’ music too loudly, but I became aware that fireworks were being blasted nearby. I came to find out that these fireworks were the celebration of a sports team of the nearby university.

What do you think of scheduling this kind of jubilation on the most somber day of the year for Christians? To me, it is just another sign of the Satanic influence pervading this university’s sports teams, and moreover, a sign of the loss of Christian values in American society. Anti-Catholicism is the Last Acceptable Prejudice. This unfortunate scheduling was probably not a deliberate act, and who knows if anyone thought to bring it up beforehand, but the information about Good Friday is available to anyone who wants it.

I wonder if fireworks would be scheduled on Yom Kippur. I wonder if there would be celebrations on the opening of Ramadan. It would be likewise shameful. But then, I suppose it is a free country. And if we avoided all religions’ mourning days, we would probably never be able to schedule any celebration at all.
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Where are you located?
I never have heard of fireworks on Good Friday; Easter and Christmas, yes, but not Good Friday. Could there have been another reason, a secular one for them?
 
PatriceA said:
The university wouldn’t happen to be still in the NCAA basketball tournament, would they? The fireworks may not have been deliberately scheduled on Good Friday. It may be only a coincidence, an unfortunate one, that they won the game that advances them to the next round and the game just happened to fall on Good Friday. If its because of this reason, the fireworks would have gone off no matter what the day of religious affiliation.
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This sounds very plausible. Here’s a stats-related adage for you. Correlation does not imply causation.

Shark attacks go up when ice cream sales go up. Does this mean ice cream attracts sharks? No. It’s summer. More people buy ice cream. Also, more people go swimming so there is a natural increase in shark attacks.

Similarly, just because the fireworks were on Good Friday, doesn’t mean they were specifically scheduled for Good Friday. They could very well have been scheduled for a March 29th March Madness game. If the game had been scheduled a week earlier, or Easter had fallen a week later, this wouldn’t be a question. They just happened to coincide
 
There is no such thing as a concidence.

My location is in my profile.
 
Elizium23 said:
There is no such thing as a concidence.

My location is in my profile.
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  1. I concur with the people who say your location is no help in determining your actual location
  2. I must respectfully disagree. It is possible for two unrelated events to happen at the same time. Like if I clapped my hands at the same time someone turned on a light, it doesn’t mean it’s a clapper
 
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