A Strange Good Friday!

Today is Good Friday. This is the day on which Christians commemorate the brutal murder of Jesus Christ on the Cross.

It is the culmination of what the Christians refer to as the "Holy Week", which begins on Palm Sunday, and it takes place two days before Easter.

Whilst elderly Christians spend this day in fasting, praying, repenting, and meditating on the agony and suffering of Christ on the cross, the younger Christians create various caricatures depicting Judas - one of the disciples of Jesus who sold the latter for crucifixion. 

The Judas caricatures are normally dragged and mercilessly manhandled for what the kids refer to as a revenge for Jesus.

Interestingly, the aforementioned manner in which the younger Christians used to commemorate Good Friday by dragging, beating and even tearing to pieces the caricatures of Judas, took a different turn this year. Instead of manhandling the caricatures, the children used it as a means of collecting money.

One of the numerous scenes today in which children were begging money for Judas

The caricatures were carefully carried by various groups of children around the country requesting 'money for Judas'. Door to door, street to street, the children had bowls on their hands displaying their caricatures to elderly folks and collecting money.

 
This is strange! Truly strange! How could the children be collecting 'money for Judas' instead of beating him up for betraying Jesus?

Could it be true that the Churches and parents are no longer teaching the children about the history of Jesus Christ and Judas? Or does the new way of commemorating Good Friday has something to do with the growing poverty in the land?

By Abdul Fonti