ANY SUGGESTIONS?WARNING: Possibly Offensive
This is part of an email that showed up in my inbox this afternoon.
Lent is the penitential period of 40 days from Ash Wednesday to Easter when Christians fast and do penance in preparation for Easter and to spiritually "join" Jesus with the fasting and meditation he did in the wilderness. The principle behind Lent is asceticism: denying material, physical pleasures for the sake of the soul. Atheists reject Christian mythology and can turn Lent on its head by observing anti-Lent. If Christians do penance for their sins, you can rack up new "sins" by test driving new material, physical pleasures. This life is the only one we have, so expand your comfort zone by trying new things.
1 comment:
Interesting concept, "anti-lent". I think I like it. What I know for sure is that guilt, absolved or otherwise, never did anybody any sort of good at all.
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