2007-02-20 14:02:47 · 9 answers · asked by stella.cella 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Funniest: Dieting
Most pathetic: Just today, someone posted that rather than give something up for Lent, she decided to do something for God by praying an extra Rosary each night. I was thinking maybe she could donate some time to a homeless shelter, or help battered women if she was so interested in returning God's favors, but no, an extra prayer would do. I don't understand it.
2007-02-20 14:17:59 · answer #1 · answered by iamnoone 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lent is unbiblical and based on ancient Babylonian worship.
Lent’s Ancient Roots
Coming from the Anglo-Saxon Lencten, meaning “spring,” Lent originated in the ancient Babylonian mystery religion. “The forty days’ abstinence of Lent was directly borrowed from the worshippers of the Babylonian goddess…Among the Pagans this Lent seems to have been an indispensable preliminary to the great annual festival in commemoration of the death and resurrection of Tammuz” (The Two Babylons).
Tammuz was the false Messiah of the Babylonians—a satanic counterfeit of Jesus Christ!
The Feast of Tammuz was usually celebrated in June (also called the “month of Tammuz”). Lent was held 40 days before the feast, “celebrated by alternate weeping and rejoicing.” This is why Lent means “spring”; it took place from spring to early summer.
The Bible records ancient Judah worshipping this false Messiah: “Then He brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord’s house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz” (Ezek. 8:14-15). This was a great abomination in God’s eyes!
But why did the church at Rome institute such a pagan holiday?
“To conciliate the Pagans to nominal Christianity, Rome, pursuing its usual policy, took measures to get the Christian and Pagan festivals amalgamated, and, by a complicated but skillful adjustment of the calendar, it was found no difficult matter, in general, to get Paganism and Christianity—now far sunk in idolatry—in this as in so many other things, to shake hands” (The Two Babylons).
The Roman church replaced Passover with Easter, moving the pagan Feast of Tammuz to early spring, “Christianizing” it. Lent moved with it.
“This change of the calendar in regard to Easter was attended with momentous consequences. It brought into the Church the grossest corruption and the rankest superstition in connection with the abstinence of Lent” (The Two Babylons).
Before giving up personal sins and vices during Lent, the pagans held a wild, “anything goes” celebration to make sure they got in their share of debaucheries and perversities—what the world celebrates as Mardi Gras today.
2007-02-20 22:10:31 · answer #2 · answered by BrotherMichael 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Sarcasm.
Look at your bad habits.
Are you cynical?
Are you sarcastic?
Do you gossip?
Find the one bad habit that hurts your relationship with God the most.
Work on that bad habit during Lent and then when Lent is over keep working on it.
With love in Christ.
2007-02-21 01:28:48 · answer #3 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Listening to protestants who think the fictional and heretical book "The Two Babylons" is scripture.
2007-02-21 05:54:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
im an atheist = nothing..
BUT
my friend just gave up saying "thats what she said"for lent
2007-02-20 22:16:07 · answer #5 · answered by uhohspaghettiohohs 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually, I have never given up anything.
For more pertinent information, click on this web site.
http://www.factnet.org/cults/catholic/re...
With love in Jesus Christ; he is the king of kings.
2007-02-21 04:33:24 · answer #6 · answered by imacatlick2 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Crack cocaine, ketamine, MDMA ( Ecstasy), and Keebler Fudgewiches.
Dude above me.Everything in the bible is stolen from Paganism or Egyptian religion. Wake up.
2007-02-20 22:10:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
A guy I knew gave up food for Lent.
Yes, all forty days of it.
2007-02-20 22:08:09 · answer #8 · answered by WithUnveiledFaces 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Catholicism...
2007-02-20 22:07:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋