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2006-11-25 03:46:31 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Nothing. Lent is a pagan observance. Lent was first observed in Assyria and Palestine in the month of June. In Egypt it was the month of May when it was kept. When it finally migrated to Britain this pagan fast was observed in April. It seems to be a most flexible fast suitable for any type of pagan idolatry. For I notice that in 1950 the Roman Lent begins in February!
Rome's method of enveloping Babylon's Lent and incorporating it into her ritual should he noticed. About the year 525, Rome, pursuing her usual policy of absorbing the pagan observances and in order to gain nominal adherents to the church, engineered a new religious merger. Under the shrewd management of the Abbot Dionysus the Little, the pagan Lent was established as a church observance. And so the Church, now controlled from Rome, and fast sinking into every form of corruption, added yet this evil of a "sacred fast" to her list of idolatries. In his manipulations to fit a 40-day Lent into the calendar this same Dionysus caused the approximate date of Christ's birth to be changed four years later than the truth. This change of calendar brought in the grossest corruption and rankest superstition in connection with the abstinence of Lent. It was only the beginning of another form of Roman evil.
Leave Lent alone. It will contaminate you.
2006-11-25 03:48:32 · answer #1 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Christianity.
2006-11-25 11:57:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
did you know the only reason you cant eat meat during lent is b/c the clergy made a deal with the fisherman to get more money and the fisherman gave some of their profits to the church. that is the real reason for lent. dont believe the hype.
2006-11-25 11:49:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion
2006-11-25 11:52:30 · answer #4 · answered by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Give up "guilt" for lent and really mess with the process!
2006-11-25 11:50:42 · answer #5 · answered by Laptop Jesus 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I can't really answer your question, but I can give you something funny I overheard once in highschool.
Some random guy: "I always give up something really easy for lent. Like this year, I'm giving up eating paper napkins."
2006-11-25 11:49:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I gave up Lent
2006-11-25 11:47:54 · answer #7 · answered by Up your Maslow 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Sin.
Or if that is too much of a challenge, give up hatred. If hatred isnt' an issue for you, give up your preconcieved notions about those who are different from you, and commit yourself to learning the truth about others instead of making assumptions based on popular media.
2006-11-25 11:50:47 · answer #8 · answered by Smiley 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo Questions
2006-11-25 11:47:58 · answer #9 · answered by Michael H 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm with "girl wonder". I plan to give up measles and broken legs. I was thinking of giving up indigestion, but I have no control over French wine makers.
2006-11-25 11:55:44 · answer #10 · answered by JAT 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋