I will be giving up sex with married women.
I will be giving up sex with married women.
Spartickis wrote:
I give props to anyone on here who gave up running for lent... anyone?
I did that in 2005, and it was definitely good for me.
For context: I am not on a team, and I certainly don't make my money running. Nowadays I run mostly because I enjoy it, and also for transportation (to and home from work most days), and to train for a race perhaps once every few years. Right now I am in the middle of what for me constitutes some pretty solid training, in hopes of running a PR of about 2:50-2:51 at Boston this year. I used to take running way too seriously for a guy who had been running for over 10 years, used to run 80-90 mpw regularly, and had performances level off around 2:55 when training at that volume. Having given it up for Lent helped me to get running and the rest of my life into a more reasonable balance.
Moderate wrote:
I will be giving up sex with married women.
All husbands do and it`s not just during Lent.
Good Catholic Boy wrote:
we know from historical records that Jesus was a real person who rebelled against 'the man' and paid the ultimate price for it. His story is pretty inspiring even if one doesn't believe in God.
No we don't. And that other stuff is horsecrap.
"when man stops believing in God he'll believe in anything."
So you believe in Zeus, Allah, Vishnu? Show me the evidence that atheism breeds credulousness. This is just self-serving nonsense.
The idea that disbelieving in God is arrogance is a classic case of Nietzsche's "resentment". It is belief in God that amounts to arrogance.
The evidence so overwhelmingly indicates that Jesus was a mythical figure (not a single thing in the Gospels doesn't have a perfect analog in pagan "dying-rising God" theology or as Old Testament midrash). I have no idea how one can reckon the Gospels as history when they get so many political and geographical facts wrong, borrown heavily from late pagan imagery and metheme, and sound pretty much like other "hero" biographies of the period. Read "Life of Pythagoras" or "Life of Apollonious of Tyana" and tell me how the gospels differ in form and content, especially given these two provide direct source material for Jesus' miracle stories. You have put no obstacles in your way for belief and don't want any - you just want to parody atheism and parody the path by which people arrive at that result.
OP, I gave up sweets and it sucks. I generally have some type of candy in the afternoon and after dinner. I think I became addicted to it because I can feel myself craving it and getting slight headaches without it.
I should do more than just giving up something.
As for the atheist haters out there, I think we can agree that no can prove or disprove that a God exists. Us Catholics have decided to, through mere blind faith, that God does exist.
Since atheist cannot prove their is not a god, they choose to place their blind faith in a greater power not existing.
Either way, atheist or Christian, you are choosing to believe in something through mere blind faith. So what I don't understand is how an atheis can ridicule a christian for believing in God when it takes just as much faith to not believe in God.
I can certainly understand how many people can become disenchanted with the Church. I realize the church has double standards and has done things that really piss people off and drive people away from religion. But I believe we all (atheist and religious) can agree that the core beliefs of the church, respecting for each other, caring for each other, is a pretty good way to live.
I gave up masturbation for now. Not sure if I can make it to Easter though
I GAVE UP SUCKING HUGE COCK
im giving up sobriety.
I'm with all the posters who no longer participate in these silly rituals, however, I agree with folks like Greg Epstein, Humanist Chaplain at Harvard, and author of 'Good without God', who says that as a society, we've outgrown traditional God-centered religion, but still need a framework for leading lives of purpose and compassion. Highly recommend this book for the religiously disenchanted.
Good Catholic Boy wrote:
What I have found, however, is that most criticism of Catholic theology is not very well-informed. It is done in the mainstream by people in popular media who have never read the Catechism or studied Catholic teaching, but instead base their attacks on their very thin, 'bumper sticker' level of knowledge of Catholic teaching on only the most controversial issues, like abortion.
Similarly what I have found is what I would call, "Delicatessen Catholicism". People thinking they can pick and choose the parts they want want and discard the others. Oh I like THIS part of Catholicism and THIS part but not that THAT part.
If you are to ever justify a belief in Catholicism you must be prepared to defend ALL parts. Including abortion. Dostoyevsky in the Rebellion merely took on a very specific aspect. Why bad things happen to good people and the entire notion of "original sin"
I gave up my virginity, big time
i gave up all sports, at least i can still run and play golf
I asked my wife what she thinks I should give up for Lent, and she said, "LetsRun.com"
Thankfully, I do not practice Catholicism anymore...
I gave up religion for lent
Lithe Recovering Catholic wrote:
I'm with all the posters who no longer participate in these silly rituals, however, I agree with folks like Greg Epstein, Humanist Chaplain at Harvard, and author of 'Good without God', who says that as a society, we've outgrown traditional God-centered religion, but still need a framework for leading lives of purpose and compassion.
Why do we "need a framework"? What exactly is wrong with leading a compassionate life, finding our own purpose, and taking things as they come?
running and sex
I tried to give up flying airplanes into buildings, but that only lasted a day, then on Thursday, I went a little nuts... Oops. Maybe next year or maybe not.
You had to stop believing in God before things "finally started to make sense?" If that's the case, I hope you didn't believe in God while you were in college, otherwise you might have wasted a lot of money, assuming nothing you learned there made sense, be that academically or in any other area of life.
"Why do we "need a framework"? What exactly is wrong with leading a compassionate life, finding our own purpose, and taking things as they come?"
Maybe "need" wasn't the right word choice. I think there is plenty of evidence that people *crave* a sense of community, and develop a stronger, and seemingly more valid sense of purpose when similar goals are shared with others. Sure, you can act in a compassionate, purposeful fashion on your own, but the act of compassion itself presumes you are interacting with others in some sort of community, for the sake of preserving that community's functionality.
In his book, Epstein discusses a common desire in the current generation of atheists to want to hang onto some of the cultural traditions and lessons of morality that religion can offer, without having to profess belief in...something they don't believe in, i.e., God, Santa Claus, whatever.
The Humanist movement, lead by people like Epstein, is giving a broader group of people the opportunity to become part of a community that values compassion and peace.
I see the Humanist movement as a way of bringing people together toward a common, humane purpose, while so many religions (Catholic and Judaic *faiths* at the top of the list) are set up to divide communities in rivalry.
IMO, religion, if it needs to exist, should exist to bring people together and strengthen communities with the purpose of greater good for all, rather than divide us like two cross-town high school football teams on game night.
Before the grammar zealots get after me...*lead* should have been *led*.