well, in one way — he is trying to re-learn the blessings of fasting, which is what we in the West have neglected. I don’t agree with where he’s learning it from, but he is looking for something that we have lost.
In the back of his mind, he’s probably just thinking “weight-loss plan.”
Sorry to be a cynic, but liberals make me go there.
the only scripture they find divinely inspired is that about giving them a 10th of your income....now THAT is from God.
:>)