The Fast Show

Q. “What are you giving up for Lent?”

A. “LENT !”

Q. “Whaaaaaat???? Filthy heretic, wash out your mind by thinking about a wire brush and soap!!!”
(so say’s the local Cardinal)


Sorry if this offends some readers… but accepting unscriptural traditions without question, is a pious form of O.C.D.*

Lent (c/o of the papacy) is supposed to be like the 40 days Jesus spent in the wilderness. This enforced fast, apparently prepares “the church” for Easter.
Firstly, Jesus went into the wilderness for 40 days/nights to be tested before His ministry, three and a half years before His crucifixion at Golgotha.
Secondly, He was led into the wilderness by The Holy Spirit!!! - Not a tradition of man.
A Holy Spirit led/inspired fast, is very beneficial - when and with the reasons The Lord would have; but a set fast, called for by a mere temporal power? and the mixing in of the Ishtar festival at the end??? …don’t get me started on that. Lent prepares “the church” for Easter, does it? - grooms the undiscerning, to come under Rome as "head of Christendom", more like.

This article is absolutely NOT against remembrance and thanksgiving for the sacrifice of Jesus Christ made for us, on the cross and of His wonderful resurrection! Before Jesus died ONCE, for ALL, He said/commanded we should remember Him in His death, with the bread and wine… as often as you eat and drink it, till He returns.

We ARE free to celebrate according to our conscience before God. As a ministry we've often been accused of being "religious" about investigating popular traditions and making a stand against aspects of them, if in all conscience (after "searching the scriptures") we cannot be party to them anymore.

I repeat, we ARE free to celebrate according to our conscience. Ironically, the times and dates traditionally set by “mother” Rome (under the guise of "unity" and "apostolic succession") are a subtle cage, curtailing this - if you would just think about it for a second. Do you feel any pressure from the majority to “go along” with Lent? - if so, why? Is it us being religous then, or you? "What will everyone around me say?" - that's your issue maybe? You are free to completely disagree with all this, as well - I just hope you know why you do. Where is it in scripture?

Do you think fasting will be of benefit? Ok, no problem, but do that after inquiring of The Lord, not because history say’s so. Just because something is old… it doesn’t make it right.
I mean... Babylon is old!

*(Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)


David Robinson (yeah, him again)