He is also, apparently, the reason we know the age of the earth.

So – there’s that.

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    Why are people celebrating his death day? Dude was born June 2nd, why not make that the holiday?

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      11 months ago

      The day he died is the day we failed to celebrate him for the last time; we’re not celebrating we’re commemorating.

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        11 months ago

        I do have a joke about that, but eight people have told me it’s in bad taste, so I had to stop telling it.

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            11 months ago

            (cue joke)

            When I was younger everyone kept asking me “Have you found Jesus?”

            When I was on the street, when I was walking through shopping centres, when I was in the Student Union.

            “Have you found Jesus?”

            Eventually I got sick of it, and one day I snapped.

            Someone asked me “Have you found Jesus?” and I turned to them I said “You’ve lost him? Again? What is it with you people losing Jesus? You know what you should do? You should do what they did in the olden days and nail him to a cross – that way you’ll always know where he is!!”

            Which turned out to be the wrong thing to say to the Arch Bishop, but hey – you live and learn.