Good ... Or Really Bad ... Friday?

If someone captured your leader, beat him up brutally, stripped and shamed him publicly, and then nailed him on a cross to wait for him to die, how could such a day be a good day?

Yet Christians all over the world call this day Good Friday. That leader they honour is Jesus Christ, whom they receive as the Son of God and Saviour, who was helplessly killed before the Jewish and Roman authorities. So, are Christians crazy, seriously crazy, to call such a day good?

Here's a video (among others) that explains it from a Christian perspective.



There is also another explanation of why it's call Good Friday, from an etymological viewpoint. The word Good comes from a form of the word for Holy.

Perhaps there's some truth in either approach. What do you think? And what are you going to do this Good Friday?