Happy Eid.
Thinking about religious practices. Catholics give up something important to them for Lent and Muslims have a lunar month of Ramadan to focus on charity and Jews have Passover. What is the equivalent for Evangelical Christians?
https://www.vox.com/2017/5/25/11851766/what-is-ramadan-2018-start-date-muslim-islam-about
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I can't speak for all evangelicals but I can speak for myself, who has always called himself an evangelical Christian. We do fast and pray - and increasingly at Lent.
ReplyDeleteAs Christianity evolves, numerous evangelicals and other more-orthodox sects and denominations have found common cause. It's not a widely known or commonly understood thing: a great deal is going on within the evangelical community, as it moults out of the carapace of these obscene and preposterous bumpkins who surround Donald Trump. I really don't give a fuck about those Trumpkin Taliban, the Bible is full of their bad examples.
I care only about The Walk, the emulation of Christ. Christ fasted and prayed. I fast and pray. But I don't yet hold with the renunciation of certain foods nor abstinence from certain activities. That's mortification of the flesh. It's one of the things which divides the Lutherans from the rest of the Protestant confession: they do hold with mortification and I think it's senseless brutality, ( though I presently attend a Lutheran church) . Controlling the body and subjecting its wishes to the conscious mind, that's good spiritual exercise, useful for anyone, religious or not. Helps in dieting, heh heh! But fasting for Lent, more Protestants do it than is generally supposed.
So it's not a special set aside time in addition to routine religious observances? Or does it happen around Easter to coincide with the crucifixion.
ReplyDeleteMormons have 'fast sunday' once a month
ReplyDeleteCass Morrison It's kinda both. It's not enforced, nobody much talks about it, and yes, it does tend to happen around Easter. Truth is, Christians would willingly trade Christmas to the merchants ( which was never a big deal theologically ) if only we could get that goddamn Easter Bunny out of Easter.
ReplyDeleteThe word Protestant arises from the verb to protest . Between the time of Luther and Zwingli and Jan Hus, the original "protestants" - and present times, the Protestants have largely been defined by what they aren't. Thus all the old Catholic traditions have heretofore been suspect.
That's changing, big time. Starting in the early 1970s, maybe even the 60s, kids who went to evangelical schools such as Wheaton and Taylor and suchlike, they quietly put an end to all that. They befriended all the other sects of Christianity - with the single exception of the Mormons / LDS , who were then even worse bigots than the Southern Baptists. All sorts of odd customers started turning up at the meetings: black churches, with their tradition of singing and preaching, Catholics, with their emphasis on social justice, the Greek Orthodox with their smells and bells - it was a serious rebellion within the evangelical community and it was strongly opposed from the pulpit as ecumenical weak tea, a retreat from Calvinism.
To which the kids, now well into their sixties now, I suppose, replied, with great anger "We'll just wait you out. We will bury you, every last one of you. When you could have made overtures to other Christians, you did not. We have not forgotten how you gave safe harbour to bigotry."
Evangelicals look in the mirror and say, “I’m rich! Hahahaha!”
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