Lent
- Thread starter Redman97
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The joys of being protestant...
My wife is catholic. I'm going to enjoy drinking pop in front of her.
Some probably do. My church (United Methodist) didn't. I do enjoy fried fish though, so I always welcome lent.
I'm not Catholic but my wife and her family are. I, for one, enjoy Lent as I get to eat copious amounts of fried fish, don't have to give anything up and have ample opportunity to make fun of ridiculous Catholic traditions. All in all, I love it.
That is ok, she will just be flashing paradise in front of you burning in hell for eternity.
Maybe I would, but I'm pretty happy with my materialistic, self-absored, gluttonous, godless lifestyle I current live.
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True-- plenty of other cults participate in such things as well.
In all honesty I don't have anything against Catholics. I'm just so engrained in making fun of the religion to my wife it's hard not to do it around others. Hell, I'm Lutheran anyway...same ****, right?
Considering I've never been around it and have no interest in being around it, yeah to me it's funny. But sorry if my post kind of hit home in your personal life.
Honestly, personally, I'm kind of "giving up" the legalism of the Catholic faith for a bit. I grew up in a parish that was very legalistic...you darn sure went to church on Sunday, and you better not eat meat on Friday, and you did the moves all by the book...but there was very little faith outside of that. People acted no differently than non-christians during the other days of the week...like faith stopped at the church doors. I saw thru that particular act when I was in college and unfortunately chalked it up to 'religion is BS' and left my faith mostly behind.
I came back to my faith a while ago in a way not associated with 'church'...and have been working on building something on my own so that I won't fall back into the phony faith where if you do the actions you can act however you want aside of that. I'm attending mass because I think studying the word and worshipping in a community are both needed things, but I'm still trying to keep a bit of distance to make sure I end up in a strong faith community, not one that does lots of dances to appear more holy.
I came back to my faith a while ago in a way not associated with 'church'...and have been working on building something on my own so that I won't fall back into the phony faith where if you do the actions you can act however you want aside of that. I'm attending mass because I think studying the word and worshipping in a community are both needed things, but I'm still trying to keep a bit of distance to make sure I end up in a strong faith community, not one that does lots of dances to appear more holy.
Can't pass on an opportunity to recommend a book here.
Religion for atheists: a non-believers guide to the uses of religion. It's by Alain de Botton and it's a good read.
Has anyone stopped to think about how hard it would be to give up alcohol during March Madness...with this team? **** I'm going to start drinking now just thinking about the stress.
