When I was a kid I used to love to pretend that Ash Wednesday was my day, a day named just for me! I have actually gone quite a few years without paying attention to Ash Wednesday and Lent, but when I logged onto CNN this morning to catch up on the daily headlines I was drawn to this article titled "Explain it to me: What's Lent? And what are you giving up?". So I read it just to see what people would be giving up.
It took me less than 30 seconds to find this, "I have given up my all hopes on god and Jesus, hell and heaven or in life after death. I am a pantheist. Please believers do not bother to pray for me. I am happy as I am. Thank you" - Agha Ata. This literally made my heart ache, as I was looking through page after page of people giving up coffee, chocolate, snack foods, media, this man was choosing to give up on the reason for Lent. Sadly he is not alone, 900rr is giving up "Jesus mambo jumbo.... nonsense" Joe says "I will be giving up nothing for lent as I am not crazy enough to have bought into the christian propaganda machine. Christianity promotes intolerance, hatred, and violence." Two different Ann's and An Irish Fellow are giving up Christianity and Jim is just "giving up religion" and that was only on the first 3 pages! It makes me wonder what on earth we are doing as Christians that are making people feel this way.
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