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Jeremy Pierce says:

I suppose it's arguable that it's the worst day in history. Perhaps the day of the first sin is worse. One reason to think this is not because that was worse than the worst sin of killing Jesus but because the cross is not just bad but is the means of salvation. There's much bad and much good to the cross. There's only bad to the first sin except that it was a necessary condition for salvation.

wink says:

Undoubtedly the worst, for (at least) three reasons:

1) Jesus--the greatest love of my life--died that day.

2) Jesus--the beloved of the Father, and the one through whom all things were created--died that day.

3) The cross was an incomplete event. Had there been no resurrection, it would have accomplished nothing worthwhile. (c.f. ICor 15:17) As such, the only goodness in the cross is in light of the resurrection. But keep in mind that I wrote this on Holy Saturday; the Good which was to come on Easter had not yet been realized. On that day, unique in history, the Cross was unalloyed grief.