Lent / Ash Wednesday [Permission to Post from Mod]

[browniesmom622]

Originally Posted by BamaFan121s

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.

We have never done anything for lent.

I still wanted to read what everyone else does I'm sad that someone had to ruin it.

[AvyQuinn]

Originally Posted by marcerella02

no one ever belives the same thing- religious or otherwise but that's kinda what religion is all about- making it your own. You seem upset that not everyone is doing what they are "supposed" to for lent- but maybe we do what we feel is right. You are right- they should be life style changes but i don't feel it is right for you to be telling people what is and what isn't lent. I think this was meant as an interesting thread to see how everyone is praciticing- if they are- not for people to be told they are doing it wrong. Everyone practices in their own way and a way that feels right for them- you think what you do it right and I think what i do is right and that is all that matters. People don't have to go to church to be close to God.

If they're not practicing lent (which consists of three things as written and practiced historically) then why call it lent? People can do what they want, this is true. I do what I want, but I don't call it something that it's not. If I'm vacuuming the floor, I don't call it dusting. I call it vacuuming.

No, people don't have to go to church to be close to god. I used that as an example. I could have said: Pray before bed.... light candles in his name, etc etc. During lent one of the three things that are practiced is being closer to god... in whatever way you choose.

If you want to practice lent how it *was* practiced, then go out and give some of your time to a good cause, and get closer to god, and give up something you love for a little while. How hard is it to do it the way religion has dictated it be done? I'm not confused about lent, I suppose. I'm more confused about doing it halfway and calling it complete when it's not.

[browniesmom622]

Originally Posted by AvyQuinn

If they're not practicing lent (which consists of three things as written and practiced historically) then why call it lent? People can do what they want, this is true. I do what I want, but I don't call it something that it's not. If I'm vacuuming the floor, I don't call it dusting. I call it vacuuming.

No, people don't have to go to church to be close to god. I used that as an example. I could have said: Pray before bed.... light candles in his name, etc etc. During lent one of the three things that are practiced is being closer to god... in whatever way you choose.

If you want to practice lent how it *was* practiced, then go out and give some of your time to a good cause, and get closer to god, and give up something you love for a little while. How hard is it to do it the way religion has dictated it be done? I'm not confused about lent, I suppose. I'm more confused about doing it halfway and calling it complete when it's not.

Everyone is allowed to do thing's the way they want. Some people need to learn how to not be judgmental & be more open minded.
JMO

[Wylie's Mom]

Closed at the request of OP.