Why Good Friday?

Someone asked my friend Falstaff what "Good Friday" is and why "Catholics" celebrate it.

I googled, copied, and pasted some things about "Good Friday."

But, it occurs to me to say, that it is all about "salvation."

I often post on Christian and Biblical topics. I have some considerable knowledge because of where I was and who I was around in my life.

I cannot call myself a Christian.

I am rambling a bit here, on Easter Sunday afternoon.

It is interesting to ask what "salvation" means to different people.

For some, "salvation" means deliverance from "damnation", eternal torment and suffering.

For others, salvation means something in THIS earthly life; perhaps, freedom from some addiction of drugs or sex.

Someone once said, "We were meant to use things and love people; not love things and use people."

I personally do not desire salvation. No, certainly I do not desire eternal torture, but then, I cannot see the purpose served by eternal torture with no hope of repentance and reform. Nor, can I see the purpose of a swine’s paradise of unending pleasures, slopping at rivers of wine and milk.

I once posted, years ago, about my personal desire, to be "uncreated."

I desire non-being.

As far as I know, I coined the term "uncreated". Some being, great and powerful, has a magic wand which, if waved, will uncreat me; erase every trace of my existence, as if I had never been.

All my regrets would disappear. All my errors would have never been committed.

But then, on the other hand, all the good things I was a part of would never have happened.

There were people that I hurt, as I passed through this life, yes. But there were people that I affected in a positive way.

OK, so perhaps it is wrong for me to desire the "magic wand of uncreation."

Perhaps I should merely desire cessation of existence.

The Bhagavad-Gita says something most curious. Lord Krishna says, "Those who worship the ghosts go to the ghosts; those who worship the demi-Gods go to the demi-Gods; those who worship me come to me..." I am quoting from my bleary memory. But, the gist of it is that everyone gets what they want.

The Greek Orthodox have an obscure but similar doctrine called the "River of Fire", which you can find in Google. Basically, it means that we create our own heaven or hell by our freewill choices.