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Originally Posted by AvyQuinn  Yet another religious rite/custom/tradition that confuses me.
If people are going to give up a vice for 40 days... then why not make it a permanent lifestyle change? Vices are bad or immoral or; some sort of sin or wickedness or corruption. In addition to giving up a favourite food, like hot wings (lol), what else are you doing to honour lent and it's traditions? Are you volunteering your time somewhere for a good cause? Are you going to church so that you can be closer to god?
Giving up something you love or indulge in is a good thing - especially if it is bad for one's health. Maybe, though, one should look at the benefits of sacrificing that one thing they've chosen for lent and extend it outside of the rite, and apply it to the rest of their lives.
Lent isn't really lent if you're not practicing it as it is supposed to be practiced. Giving up a food is just a diet. Going to church is just going to church and volunteering your time or donating your money is just being generous. All these things together create the religious tradition that is lent; they're not individual options to be chosen at one's discretion and then called lent.
I understand this topic of discussion was permitted to be posted by the mods; exempt from the http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/off...s-threads.html but I believe that since not all of us are going to believe the same things when it comes to religion and since religious topics ARE a hotbed of opinions that these topics should remain banned from the boards. |
Oh for the love of Pete!
I thought this would be an interesting thread, got permission to post it first and thought surely to goodness there was no way this could have been turned into a debate.
I should have known better!
I started it because I thought it would be fun, not because I needed a lecture on the blackness of my soul or the correct way to dedicate myself to practicing my religion or that hot wings are a immoral sin!
My apologies for starting this thread to begin with. Please lock it.