I grew up evangelical and stayed in the church for 30+ years. I've deconstructed in the last six years, and in unpacking the hurt and pain the church has caused me, Easter has become a holiday that I dread and despise.
Thank you for sharing this. You're right, Easter is a story about hope, about perseverance, about loving others and doing what we can to help each other not only survive but thrive. Thriving still feels far away, to be honest. But I'll be damned if I don't do my part.
After reading this, I opened the curtains to my bedroom for the first time in months. The sky is clear, the sun is radiant, the birds are singing.
And for the first Easter in six years, I feel hope.
Silly Phil, Lindsay made it clear she's the only one allowed to run for office in the family.
But in all seriousness if the Church is doing its job properly, it is doing a lot of those hard things you talk about. I am singing in the choir of church that regularly hosts weekly meals for those in the inner city free of charge. The next town over is donating part of their land and building 160 low income housing units. Another church in my hometown will be supporting the homeless population by letting them stay in their church for a time.
When our government isn't leading by example, we need to look for better examples. Church can be just that for people to learn how to give, how to help, how to support. In many cases they have been doing it safely for years. As a lifelong Christian and a subscriber of yours since 2009, I encourage anyone looking to do that hard work you speak of to find a local church already doing it. It will be as full as it gets today on Easter, but the work doesn't finish after the resurrection, it only just begins
Church is one place for that, but it's all of our job, not just religious people's.
I have worked within several church based groups, but I kept getting yelled at by church people because I don't believe the same thing they do, so now I work with anarchist groups like Food, Not Bombs and nobody yells at me.
I'm glad you and other people like us are helping build Peace & Love in the world.
Same. Church just isn't the place for me anymore (really never was) and I joined a local group of people who are all as irreverent as I am and we're doing clothing and food drives and giveaways and recently started a plot in a local community garden so we can provide fresh produce at our food bank. I'm about 20 years older than the rest of the group but they have embraced me and my family and it's become a great "third place". P.S. thank you Phil for all you do and frankly this post was amazing.
I'm glad you are part of a church that is doing the good work. I think that's happening less and less often.. At least in the part of the country I live in.
Really glad this was the first thing I read when I opened my phone this morning for my “what broke in the world while I was asleep” check. Gives me a much needed hit of hope. Thank you, President De Franco.
This horror of a human is my commander-in-chief. I've served for nearly 30 years, I'm moments away from retiring, and I just don't know how I would be able to get through these times without you PhilyD. Thank you for this post, it helps me reset, get out of my head and realize I can control what I can control which is serving others. Love your beautiful face!
Phil I've followed your show since the beginning and your post about Easter is in my opinion the best point of view you have ever articulate. Thank you so much for sharing it.
As someone who is affected by this in a slightly more indirect way. (A Canadian who’s living with three others on about $3000 CAD a month with one income) I think that, even though I’ve had breakdowns, I know it’ll all get better because me and others are willing to make sure the world changes for the better. I’ve always been optimistic, but I just… know. I know that things will eventually get better. Think about how hopeless people must have felt after the disasters throughout WWII, or how scared so many people were during any depression/recession. This just goes to show that people will persevere and push through.
Ever since this nightmare began, love for my neighbors is the only thing I've been able to hold on to. Love for others is the reason I'm angry.
It's a little bit of a tangent, but the running theme of the game Expedition 33 is "for those who come after." I support my community, I fight for those who are silenced, I look for those opportunities to be the support that our government has failed to be, all for those who come after.
It's humbling and encouraging to see my community doing so much to support those around them, and we will keep going. Happy Easter everyone! Take care of yourself and others!
I feel like I gotta share this with everyone with older parents as a PSA.... PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD FIND OUT WHO YOUR PARENTS ARE DONATING TO!!! I just so happened to get my parents mail yesterday and I kid you not there we 10 SEPARATE LETTERS from the Israel PRO ZIONIST CAUSE! So I asked my mom why they were being bombarded with mail from them and she just nonchalant told me that shes been donating to them more money than I care to admit..... I know she means well but I had to get across to her that she was donating to the atrocities of Muslims and even Christians in that part of the world. this is gonna sound like a joke but I'm dead serious.... PLEASE EVERYONE TALK TO YOUR PARENTS ABOUT ZIONISM
THE CRUCIFIXTION-PASSOVER & RESURECTION = SUMMER NOT SPRING.
When the sun first comes into or "pops" into existance, (The geometric relationship between the sun & earth are identical on a flat or round earth) its first position defines & is at
A) HIGH NOON
B) HIGH SUMMER TIME ....
There are both scriptural as well as geometric with cause and effect logical reasons for this.
📆1) HOW DAYS ARE COUNTED LOGICALLY
Understanding how "day" & "days-24hours"/ days of week/ A "Lords Day" is properly counted.
A)Since God called the light day its logical that the day begin with light NOT night!
B) The sun begins to "go down" only from its highest/zenith point- FROM- NOON 12:01
Everything infront of suns path is MORNNING, eveverything behind suns path is EVENING. The initial start is at the location of suns first appearance which is NOON & SUMMER.
C) The moment that God put the sun in the sky, what time is it? NOON 12,...and why?
God speaks the "greater light to rule the day" aka sun into existance and then he says: "oh looky way over there its midnight & winter time or spring ..i think i will call that the start of a day and begin the year with that way over there"🤭.... ..I mean why would God start with the location He created the sun with anyway?....No no, it makes much more sense to create & put the sun in one location but start the light he called daytime & a year with a location that has nothing or least relationship to the location where He initially created & placed the "greater light which rules "the day" 🤭🤣🤡🤣....... The closest intial relationship the created sun and God above & earth below is NOON & SUMMER TIME!!
D) In Genisis its "evening & morrning" NOT "morning & evening"? SINCE THE DAY ENDS WITH MORRNING, WHEN DOES MORNING END??? 🤭🤭 THAT SHOULD BE ANOTHER BIG CLUE AS TO WHEN EVENING BEGINS🤣🤣 🤠HIGH NOON🤠
What diference/ how would that affect counting days?
NOTE:
THE DARKNESS ON THE FACE OF THE DEEP HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SEQUENCE OF THE CREATED DAY:
1) THAT IS A DESCRIPTION OF THE PRE-CREATION CONDITION..... IT IS NOT PART OF THE DAY BEING CREATED .....
2) THE CREATION BEGINS WITH Genesis 1:3 .... Let there be light: and there was light...........THEN HE SAID .........1:5 And God called the (A) light Day, and the (B) darkness he called Night. And (A) the evening and the (B) morning were the first day.
3) SEQUENCE ASSOCIATION.
Genesis 1:5 And God called the (A) light Day, and the (B) darkness he called Night. And (A) the evening and the (B) morning were the first day.
EVENING BEGINGS WITH THE LIGHT .....MORNING BEGINGS WITH NIGHT.....
📆2) A DAY BEGINS WITH SCRIPTURE=
CHRIST THREE DAYS & THREE NIGHTS
3 days & 3 nights ( in heart of the earth/ place of disembodied spirits) is easily accomodated if you count from NOON- NOON ( evening & morning)
ERGO:
FRIDAY
Death in evening-night-morning
SATURDAY
evening-night-morning
SUNDAY
evening-night-morning resurection
Easy peasy
Modern jews are fake & their understanding of ancient/ original jewsish scripture is garbage too. They understood scripture so well they killed their own Mesiah so God cursed biological Israel into extinction and dummies today want to refer & appeal to fake Jews & "jewish callendars" & understandings of Gods creation & Gods word to glean wisdom & understanding
A day is EVENING & MORNING!! 12noon-12noon)
.....NOT
morning & evening (12 midnight- 12 midnight)
📆3) HOW A YEAR BEGINS =
A) God instructed start of their year was Egyptian moth of Abib ( Exodus 12:2& 13:4) & that is known to be SUMMER TIME!!
B) A YEAR LOGICALY BEGINS WITH SUMMER NOT SRING NOT WINTER NOT FALL.
C) Zechariah 14:1. THE DAY OF THE LORD COMETH, ...
(((DAY OF THE LORD IS NOT A 24 HOUR SOLAR DAY (ironically A.D. means " in the year of our lord, NOT a coeincidence)))
..........2... GATHER ALL NATIONS....THE CITY SHALL BE TAKEN,..But IT SHALL BE ONE DAY WHICH SHALL BE KNOWN TO THE LORD NOT DAY, NOR NIGHT:.: IN
(💥1💥) SUMMER AND IN
(💥2💥) WINTER
SHALL IT BE 16 ... SHALL EVEN GO UP FROM 📆YEAR TO YEAR📆
C) SPRING = TIME OF BIRTH-GROWTH BUT GOD CREATED EARTH, PLANTS ANIMALS HUMANS ADULTS FULLY GROWN = SUMMER NOT BIRTH & SPRING.
Which is probably also why Abib the egyptian month is in summer as well NOT SPRING TIME 🤣🤣
4) ☀️ SUM IT UP 🤭
A) All relationships to the time of day- year and "THE DAY" are wrt the position of the sun NOT other positions that are unrelated to the sun or light which is "day"
Darkness is the absence of light & sun (which rules the Day). The Day is defined by the PRESENCE OF SUN & ITS LIGHT...... NOT THE ABSENCE OF THE SUN & LIGHT 🤣🤭🤣
Logic starts with what we have not speculation on the light of the first 3 days of creation. Now, was the sun placed in the late evening sky? ..is the sun in the night time sky? NO! The Sun was placed in sky where the greatest amount of light is on any given day from which it rules& gives "day" from, which is noon .......& summer, summer, summer time🎶
B) NO ONE WHO CELEBRATES EASTER IS CELEBRATING ISHTAR OR ORGGIES OR PAGANISIM!! LANGUAGE, NAMES, SYMBOLS & MEANINGS CAN & DO CHANGE OVER TIME AND WITH CONTEXT! SATAN HAS NO INHERIANT CLAIM OF OWNERSHIP OVER COLORED EGGS RABBITS OR CHILDEREN PLAYING ON SUNDAY MORRNING........AND EVERYONE HAS MUCH BIGGER PROBLEMS THAT THEY SHOULD BE ADDRESSING HOWEVER, IT IS LIKELY THAT THIS DATE WAS REASONED & CHOOSEN DUE TO A) IGNORANCE. ... CONTRARY TO ALL THE PIETY & SCHOLLARSHIP IN THESE TIMES DONT BE A SUCKER .... EVERYONE WAS WARNED ABOUT THE "OVRERSEERS" B) ATTEMPTS TO "TAKE OVER" SOME PAGAN INFLUENCE & THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN ABSOLUTLY NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. https://www.scribd.com/document/804080506/Christs-3D-Nhttps://www.academia.edu/126275960/Christs_3D_and_N
I have a strict no politics on Sunday policy for my own mental health and as someone who is deconstructing the evangelical faith I was raised in Easter is a lot complicated so I really didn't even mean to read this article when it hit my inbox yesterday but I admit that Phil always has something to say that uplifts me so I read it and was so happy to see him talk about organizing in our communities and doing mutual aid. Almost a year ago now I joined an organization here in the Arkansas/Oklahoma River Valley and we are doing mutual aid, political education and out there protesting with No Kings and 50501 as well as our own protests. This group has become a family for me and my adult children. I'm just so excited to see what the next generation is willing to stand for and be part of the movement for change in our very "Red" community.
I grew up evangelical and stayed in the church for 30+ years. I've deconstructed in the last six years, and in unpacking the hurt and pain the church has caused me, Easter has become a holiday that I dread and despise.
Thank you for sharing this. You're right, Easter is a story about hope, about perseverance, about loving others and doing what we can to help each other not only survive but thrive. Thriving still feels far away, to be honest. But I'll be damned if I don't do my part.
After reading this, I opened the curtains to my bedroom for the first time in months. The sky is clear, the sun is radiant, the birds are singing.
And for the first Easter in six years, I feel hope.
Silly Phil, Lindsay made it clear she's the only one allowed to run for office in the family.
But in all seriousness if the Church is doing its job properly, it is doing a lot of those hard things you talk about. I am singing in the choir of church that regularly hosts weekly meals for those in the inner city free of charge. The next town over is donating part of their land and building 160 low income housing units. Another church in my hometown will be supporting the homeless population by letting them stay in their church for a time.
When our government isn't leading by example, we need to look for better examples. Church can be just that for people to learn how to give, how to help, how to support. In many cases they have been doing it safely for years. As a lifelong Christian and a subscriber of yours since 2009, I encourage anyone looking to do that hard work you speak of to find a local church already doing it. It will be as full as it gets today on Easter, but the work doesn't finish after the resurrection, it only just begins
Church is one place for that, but it's all of our job, not just religious people's.
I have worked within several church based groups, but I kept getting yelled at by church people because I don't believe the same thing they do, so now I work with anarchist groups like Food, Not Bombs and nobody yells at me.
I'm glad you and other people like us are helping build Peace & Love in the world.
Same. Church just isn't the place for me anymore (really never was) and I joined a local group of people who are all as irreverent as I am and we're doing clothing and food drives and giveaways and recently started a plot in a local community garden so we can provide fresh produce at our food bank. I'm about 20 years older than the rest of the group but they have embraced me and my family and it's become a great "third place". P.S. thank you Phil for all you do and frankly this post was amazing.
I'm glad you are part of a church that is doing the good work. I think that's happening less and less often.. At least in the part of the country I live in.
Really glad this was the first thing I read when I opened my phone this morning for my “what broke in the world while I was asleep” check. Gives me a much needed hit of hope. Thank you, President De Franco.
Well said
This horror of a human is my commander-in-chief. I've served for nearly 30 years, I'm moments away from retiring, and I just don't know how I would be able to get through these times without you PhilyD. Thank you for this post, it helps me reset, get out of my head and realize I can control what I can control which is serving others. Love your beautiful face!
Phil I've followed your show since the beginning and your post about Easter is in my opinion the best point of view you have ever articulate. Thank you so much for sharing it.
As someone who is affected by this in a slightly more indirect way. (A Canadian who’s living with three others on about $3000 CAD a month with one income) I think that, even though I’ve had breakdowns, I know it’ll all get better because me and others are willing to make sure the world changes for the better. I’ve always been optimistic, but I just… know. I know that things will eventually get better. Think about how hopeless people must have felt after the disasters throughout WWII, or how scared so many people were during any depression/recession. This just goes to show that people will persevere and push through.
A message that I very much appreciated reading today
Also, don't tease us with 2032 😉 I feel like we'd show up in droves. Appreciate you!
Happy Easter friend. And thanks for this message.
Ever since this nightmare began, love for my neighbors is the only thing I've been able to hold on to. Love for others is the reason I'm angry.
It's a little bit of a tangent, but the running theme of the game Expedition 33 is "for those who come after." I support my community, I fight for those who are silenced, I look for those opportunities to be the support that our government has failed to be, all for those who come after.
It's humbling and encouraging to see my community doing so much to support those around them, and we will keep going. Happy Easter everyone! Take care of yourself and others!
I feel like I gotta share this with everyone with older parents as a PSA.... PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD FIND OUT WHO YOUR PARENTS ARE DONATING TO!!! I just so happened to get my parents mail yesterday and I kid you not there we 10 SEPARATE LETTERS from the Israel PRO ZIONIST CAUSE! So I asked my mom why they were being bombarded with mail from them and she just nonchalant told me that shes been donating to them more money than I care to admit..... I know she means well but I had to get across to her that she was donating to the atrocities of Muslims and even Christians in that part of the world. this is gonna sound like a joke but I'm dead serious.... PLEASE EVERYONE TALK TO YOUR PARENTS ABOUT ZIONISM
Still wearing my DeFranco 2024 hoodie regularly and expecting a DeFranco 2032 to drop.
Your message hits hard today. While an administration is talking about boots on the ground in Iran we need to be boots on the ground for each other.
you need to tell people they don't have to read if they use the app 🤣😅
THE "EASTER" ISSUES
THE CRUCIFIXTION-PASSOVER & RESURECTION = SUMMER NOT SPRING.
When the sun first comes into or "pops" into existance, (The geometric relationship between the sun & earth are identical on a flat or round earth) its first position defines & is at
A) HIGH NOON
B) HIGH SUMMER TIME ....
There are both scriptural as well as geometric with cause and effect logical reasons for this.
📆1) HOW DAYS ARE COUNTED LOGICALLY
Understanding how "day" & "days-24hours"/ days of week/ A "Lords Day" is properly counted.
A)Since God called the light day its logical that the day begin with light NOT night!
B) The sun begins to "go down" only from its highest/zenith point- FROM- NOON 12:01
Everything infront of suns path is MORNNING, eveverything behind suns path is EVENING. The initial start is at the location of suns first appearance which is NOON & SUMMER.
C) The moment that God put the sun in the sky, what time is it? NOON 12,...and why?
God speaks the "greater light to rule the day" aka sun into existance and then he says: "oh looky way over there its midnight & winter time or spring ..i think i will call that the start of a day and begin the year with that way over there"🤭.... ..I mean why would God start with the location He created the sun with anyway?....No no, it makes much more sense to create & put the sun in one location but start the light he called daytime & a year with a location that has nothing or least relationship to the location where He initially created & placed the "greater light which rules "the day" 🤭🤣🤡🤣....... The closest intial relationship the created sun and God above & earth below is NOON & SUMMER TIME!!
D) In Genisis its "evening & morrning" NOT "morning & evening"? SINCE THE DAY ENDS WITH MORRNING, WHEN DOES MORNING END??? 🤭🤭 THAT SHOULD BE ANOTHER BIG CLUE AS TO WHEN EVENING BEGINS🤣🤣 🤠HIGH NOON🤠
What diference/ how would that affect counting days?
NOTE:
THE DARKNESS ON THE FACE OF THE DEEP HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SEQUENCE OF THE CREATED DAY:
1) THAT IS A DESCRIPTION OF THE PRE-CREATION CONDITION..... IT IS NOT PART OF THE DAY BEING CREATED .....
2) THE CREATION BEGINS WITH Genesis 1:3 .... Let there be light: and there was light...........THEN HE SAID .........1:5 And God called the (A) light Day, and the (B) darkness he called Night. And (A) the evening and the (B) morning were the first day.
3) SEQUENCE ASSOCIATION.
Genesis 1:5 And God called the (A) light Day, and the (B) darkness he called Night. And (A) the evening and the (B) morning were the first day.
EVENING BEGINGS WITH THE LIGHT .....MORNING BEGINGS WITH NIGHT.....
📆2) A DAY BEGINS WITH SCRIPTURE=
CHRIST THREE DAYS & THREE NIGHTS
3 days & 3 nights ( in heart of the earth/ place of disembodied spirits) is easily accomodated if you count from NOON- NOON ( evening & morning)
ERGO:
FRIDAY
Death in evening-night-morning
SATURDAY
evening-night-morning
SUNDAY
evening-night-morning resurection
Easy peasy
Modern jews are fake & their understanding of ancient/ original jewsish scripture is garbage too. They understood scripture so well they killed their own Mesiah so God cursed biological Israel into extinction and dummies today want to refer & appeal to fake Jews & "jewish callendars" & understandings of Gods creation & Gods word to glean wisdom & understanding
A day is EVENING & MORNING!! 12noon-12noon)
.....NOT
morning & evening (12 midnight- 12 midnight)
📆3) HOW A YEAR BEGINS =
A) God instructed start of their year was Egyptian moth of Abib ( Exodus 12:2& 13:4) & that is known to be SUMMER TIME!!
B) A YEAR LOGICALY BEGINS WITH SUMMER NOT SRING NOT WINTER NOT FALL.
C) Zechariah 14:1. THE DAY OF THE LORD COMETH, ...
(((DAY OF THE LORD IS NOT A 24 HOUR SOLAR DAY (ironically A.D. means " in the year of our lord, NOT a coeincidence)))
https://www.scribd.com/doc/308485609/Day-of-Lord-Not-24-Hours-I-Come-Quickly
..........2... GATHER ALL NATIONS....THE CITY SHALL BE TAKEN,..But IT SHALL BE ONE DAY WHICH SHALL BE KNOWN TO THE LORD NOT DAY, NOR NIGHT:.: IN
(💥1💥) SUMMER AND IN
(💥2💥) WINTER
SHALL IT BE 16 ... SHALL EVEN GO UP FROM 📆YEAR TO YEAR📆
C) SPRING = TIME OF BIRTH-GROWTH BUT GOD CREATED EARTH, PLANTS ANIMALS HUMANS ADULTS FULLY GROWN = SUMMER NOT BIRTH & SPRING.
Which is probably also why Abib the egyptian month is in summer as well NOT SPRING TIME 🤣🤣
4) ☀️ SUM IT UP 🤭
A) All relationships to the time of day- year and "THE DAY" are wrt the position of the sun NOT other positions that are unrelated to the sun or light which is "day"
Darkness is the absence of light & sun (which rules the Day). The Day is defined by the PRESENCE OF SUN & ITS LIGHT...... NOT THE ABSENCE OF THE SUN & LIGHT 🤣🤭🤣
Logic starts with what we have not speculation on the light of the first 3 days of creation. Now, was the sun placed in the late evening sky? ..is the sun in the night time sky? NO! The Sun was placed in sky where the greatest amount of light is on any given day from which it rules& gives "day" from, which is noon .......& summer, summer, summer time🎶
B) NO ONE WHO CELEBRATES EASTER IS CELEBRATING ISHTAR OR ORGGIES OR PAGANISIM!! LANGUAGE, NAMES, SYMBOLS & MEANINGS CAN & DO CHANGE OVER TIME AND WITH CONTEXT! SATAN HAS NO INHERIANT CLAIM OF OWNERSHIP OVER COLORED EGGS RABBITS OR CHILDEREN PLAYING ON SUNDAY MORRNING........AND EVERYONE HAS MUCH BIGGER PROBLEMS THAT THEY SHOULD BE ADDRESSING HOWEVER, IT IS LIKELY THAT THIS DATE WAS REASONED & CHOOSEN DUE TO A) IGNORANCE. ... CONTRARY TO ALL THE PIETY & SCHOLLARSHIP IN THESE TIMES DONT BE A SUCKER .... EVERYONE WAS WARNED ABOUT THE "OVRERSEERS" B) ATTEMPTS TO "TAKE OVER" SOME PAGAN INFLUENCE & THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN ABSOLUTLY NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. https://www.scribd.com/document/804080506/Christs-3D-Nhttps://www.academia.edu/126275960/Christs_3D_and_N
https://www.scribd.com/doc/305366745/Revelation-the-First-Gospel-of-the-Kingdom
https://www.academia.edu/23464127/REVELATION_THE_FIRST_GOSPEL_OF_THE_KINGDOM
Defranco for Prez 2032🤞
I have a strict no politics on Sunday policy for my own mental health and as someone who is deconstructing the evangelical faith I was raised in Easter is a lot complicated so I really didn't even mean to read this article when it hit my inbox yesterday but I admit that Phil always has something to say that uplifts me so I read it and was so happy to see him talk about organizing in our communities and doing mutual aid. Almost a year ago now I joined an organization here in the Arkansas/Oklahoma River Valley and we are doing mutual aid, political education and out there protesting with No Kings and 50501 as well as our own protests. This group has become a family for me and my adult children. I'm just so excited to see what the next generation is willing to stand for and be part of the movement for change in our very "Red" community.