Is it your religious belief or have you been droned for so many years to do it - it's just force of habit? You don't know or care what it means!
2007-02-20 08:53:25 · 25 answers · asked by curiousgeorgette 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You know catholic claim that it was written in the bible but there is no such lent-ting season in the bible, as they practiced. I’m a Christian and Christian does not observe lent because it is not a doctrine of Christ.
But we cannot blame them for what they believe in, because the one who responsible for all of these erroneous doctrines is there head in the Vatican.
2007-02-25 15:49:00 · answer #1 · answered by marilou d 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I was brought up in a nominal Anglican home. Nobody believed very much. We would go to church at Easter and/or Christmas. However we gave up things for lent. It was considered a good discipline, and a good way of appreciating things.
I don't do that now, but sometimes I wonder if it wouldn't be a good idea. I would strongly rebel against the idea of a religion imposing that on me or anyone.
EDIT:
I really don't see how "Giving up a bad habit is the lazy coward's way out". I would have thought it would be the opposite: keeping a bad habit is the lazy coward's way.
2007-02-20 17:05:12 · answer #2 · answered by Mr Ed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Giving up a bad habit is the lazy coward's way out. If you're going to "give up" anything, it should be your preconceptions, about God, life, other people and the world. Lent is supposed to be a time of self examination and analysis, when you re-evaluate your life's journey and do some spiritual spring cleaning. You don't even need to be a believer to get some good out of that. Everyone can lead a better life.
It's not really about the fasting and self-deprivation. These are just tools to make you aware of what you take for granted. The goal is new perspective that sees life more clearly.
2007-02-20 17:03:13 · answer #3 · answered by skepsis 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Catholics technically shouldn't give up anything for Lent. It was originally a Jewish tradition based around the yearly cycle of availability of food. I suppose some may maintain it as an exercise of self-dicipline, but I disagree with depriving one's self without a better reason. Diabetics and suger would be one.
2007-02-27 12:34:43 · answer #4 · answered by Vincent 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are rather presumptious to think that Catholics do not know or care what it means. Just because YOU are ignorant does not mean that others are in the same boat you are in.
Self-sacrifice during Lent helps us to realize that all that we have comes from God. When you do without something you enjoy, it makes you keenly aware of it and you become aware that all good things come from God.
It also helps us become more aware of the unconcious habits we have in life. There are many things we do or say automatically. By giving this up during Lent, you become more aware of teh things you say and do and thereby become more aware of everything, including God.
Many times, the things we give up are the small bad habits and attitudes that separate us from God. The hope is that by concentrating on giving those things up, they cease to become a part of our lives.
Now you have no excuse for being ignorant anymore.
Go in peace.
2007-02-20 17:14:33 · answer #5 · answered by Sldgman 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Its my religious belief and its a promoted practice of the Saints, like Padre Pio and John Paul the Great. Many Saints experienced the reality of God in profound, deep, and amazing ways within their souls and beings. I like to think that by denying myself during Lent, if even it be a small sacrifice, I am able to inch closer to living in that reality of God, that the Saints knew so well.
Pax Vobiscum, :-D
2007-02-20 17:15:28 · answer #6 · answered by Seta Akamatsu 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Giving up something for Lent is a personal decision between an individual and God. The reason you give something up is basically to remember that Jesus gave up his life for you and you are willing to give up something for forty days to help you remember what Jesus did. I don't think it makes any difference to God, it is something we as humans do to help us find significance in the Easter season.
2007-02-28 16:44:32 · answer #7 · answered by stitchnsheila@verizon.net 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually I do know and care what it means. It's an act of dying to oneself and repentence for sins. I just became a Catholic last year (by my own choice in a family full of Protestants) so no one droned it into me.
This year I'm giving up Tea for Lent.
I also will be reading St. Augustine's "Confessions".
2007-02-20 16:57:43 · answer #8 · answered by Dysthymia 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
because it is a part of your religious practise and it means some thing to you to go with out some thing for a time. . .if you don't know what it means then why are you doing it . . habits are meant to be broken. . .
2007-02-20 17:01:10 · answer #9 · answered by Rainy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
because remember jesus fasted 40 days and 40 nights if u blieve in chistian religion than u should fast from meat and other foods too if u don't than hey its u'e choice but its good tp fast at least a day or two
2007-02-28 16:29:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋