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   BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 03:24:02 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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   • SuperLutheran (kicky half)
   @SuperLutheran To what end do you take the concept of not discussing fasting? I do not see how people would view it as anything other than rude to refuse a dinner invitation or social event without a proper response, and sharing this time of fasting provides Christians with the implicit understanding of these sorts of things. That it happens to coincide with the time before the first harvests and tail end of winter is probably no coincidence.
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     SuperLutheran (kicky half) (superlutheran@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 03:24:03 JST SuperLutheran (kicky half)
     If your church requires you to fast during Lent, your church is sinning. If your church tells you that not fasting during Lent is sin, your church is sinning. If someone tells you to eat only bread and salt during Holy Week, then you would do well to snack on beef jerky in front of them.
     
     To require fasting is an act of judaizing. Fasts should be voluntary at all times and a private matter between the believer and God - any other fast loses any spiritual benefit it otherwise would have had.
     
     I know, I know, Augustine said it's sin to not fast during Lent, Athanasius said it's universal, and so did many other Church Fathers. All that demonstrates to me is that the Church Fathers had the same capacity for brain farts as the rest of us.