[Forest Keeper]

Self-styled ritual, self-styled mysticism, and self-styled poverty for the sake of apparent piety and holiness just panders the flesh. That religion is godless because the people worship themselves. Their humility is fake because it is nothing but a masking of spiritual pride. And their self-denial is a false standard because it is an effort to make themselves more holy than others. In all of those exercises they serve only to indulge their carnal flesh. ---- John MacArthur - http://www.biblebb.com/files/MAC/sg2143.htm

I repeat your AMEN to this, Dr. E.

Deut. 14:1-2 : 1 You are the children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead, 2 for you are a people holy to the Lord your God. Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the Lord has chosen you to be his treasured possession.

[the_conscience]

Did you ever notice that the Left practices the same religion?

Is it any wonder then why so many Romanists are in league with the Left? While the object of their devotion may be split they don’t need to change the practice. Whether at any given time they may be directing their practice towards God or the State it’s all underwritten by the same false piety.

[RnMomof7]

Deut. 14:1-2 : 1 You are the children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead, 2 for you are a people holy to the Lord your God. Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the Lord has chosen you to be his treasured possession.

Great scripture ...also your body is not your own to abuse, it is the temple of the Holy Spirit (if you are saved)

[JustSayNoToNannies]

And just to be clear, “Self-styled ritual, self-styled mysticism, and self-styled poverty for the sake of apparent piety and holiness” is not what John Paul II was doing; he ‘”frequently spent the night on the bare floor,” messing up his bed in the morning so he wouldn’t draw attention to his act of penitence.’