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To: QBFimi

“The season of Lent means Christians are fasting and giving up certain pleasures or vices.”

Who made up the Lent thing, anyhow? It’s not Scriptural. Why is it “a thing”?


33 posted on 03/11/2019 1:52:50 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Jeremiah 1:5 - "Before I formed thee ... I knew thee.")
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To: MayflowerMadam

Remember that beer I Lent you last summer.

I need it back.


34 posted on 03/11/2019 2:09:54 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (You know that I am full of /S)
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To: MayflowerMadam

>> Who made up the Lent thing, anyhow?

Google up “the temptation of Christ’. That’s a start.

After 6,000 years of Judaism and 2,000 years of Christianity, lotsa “non original” stuff has become tradition. (I’m cool with that, BTW.)

p.s. - Have you ever been to the “Babylon Bee” website? I was recently reminded: “Pastor Foolishly Spent 3 Years in Seminary When He Could Have Been Educated on the Bible by an Internet Atheist for Free.” (-:


35 posted on 03/11/2019 2:23:31 PM PDT by QBFimi (It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world... Tarfon)
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