Lentsgiving

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[00:01:16] Welcome to sacrilegious discourse. I'm husband and I'm wife. Together we're reading the Bible

[00:01:20] for the very first time. We grew up without religion and wanted to know what all the fuss was about.

[00:01:26] Well, what did we learn so far? That God is a dick and apparently some people believe in talking

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[00:02:43] people say they're giving up something for lent? I have. And did you kind of like understand the

[00:02:49] words that they were saying but not really know what the fuck? I've come to understand what it is

[00:02:55] somewhat, but I have to admit that it was something that I didn't discover until almost adulthood

[00:03:03] and maybe even later adulthood. I don't know. Well, I have to be honest and say I understood it

[00:03:10] to mean giving up a habit of something or just sacrificing some truth but I didn't know the

[00:03:17] significance of it until tonight when I was doing research for it. Yeah. Okay. How about you? Did

[00:03:24] you understand why? I know it was religious. But so you didn't know either though? Not really no.

[00:03:30] Okay. Yeah. Okay, so that makes me feel better. So lent? Lent? We're going over lent. I'm giving up

[00:03:36] not knowing what lent is for lent. And if you're new to this and you're de-converting or deconstructing

[00:03:42] them, sorry, you could give up religion for lent. Oh yeah. Just giving you an idea. Just to give

[00:03:51] you kind of a, you know, not mixed signals there but, you know, just give you a spoiler alert.

[00:03:57] Lent is done now but that's okay, but that's okay. Yeah, you could still you could next year then

[00:04:03] make sure you give it up for anti-lens. All right so are you ready to get into this? I chose

[00:04:10] fuck him. All right, let's go do this. Okay, don't keep. All right, so what is lent? What the

[00:04:24] fuck is a lent? Okay. Other than stuff that's in your dryer. That's lent. Whatever. No, okay midwestern.

[00:04:32] Oh my god. FYI for those who are just now starting and haven't heard me complain about this before

[00:04:40] but people in the midwest can't tell the difference between e and i so they think that pin

[00:04:46] and pen are the same word. I mean, if you're in the midwest, you probably just thought I said

[00:04:52] the same word twice but I in fact didn't. So okay, anyway, lent not lent. Got it. Is the

[00:05:00] solemn Christian religious observant? Salam. Salam Christian. So I'm kind of bummed because

[00:05:07] I was like for some reason in my head, I thought it was something Jewish, but it's not it's very

[00:05:13] Christian because it commemorates the 40 days Jesus spent fasting in the desert and enduring temptation

[00:05:21] by Satan. Oh yeah, which we're not there yet. So we're like who's a Jesus? There was this

[00:05:29] just prayer to him be executed? Yeah. Was it? Yeah. Okay. Or somewhere somewhere in that realm of

[00:05:35] time. Okay. And this was according to the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke but not John. Not

[00:05:41] John. Yeah. John did not believe in lent. I don't know. They were talking about lent. They were

[00:05:48] talking about the days that Jesus spent in the fucking desert. I just like give you a hard time. So

[00:05:53] that was the 40 days he spent before beginning his public ministry apparently. Oh yeah, okay.

[00:05:59] All right. I don't know about that. I didn't even know he really, I mean, I knew he had the

[00:06:03] sermon on the mound or whatever, right? But I don't know. I didn't know. I didn't know.

[00:06:07] I really did some miracles. Something about fishes and turning water into wine. Sure. And

[00:06:11] his mom was supposedly a virgin. But I don't know much about his quote unquote public ministry.

[00:06:16] I don't know anything about it. I did kind of know he was in the desert, but I didn't know

[00:06:21] that's where Lent came from. Yeah. Lent is usually observed in the Catholic Lutheran,

[00:06:27] Meravian, Anglican, United Protestant and Orthodox Christian to tradition among others.

[00:06:35] I was going to say in my experience I most relate Lent to Catholic. Yeah. At least where I grew up

[00:06:40] anyway. Sure. So some anabaptist, Baptist Methodist, reformed and non-denominational Christian

[00:06:47] churches also observed Lent. And I can say that I have seen it. I have seen some Methodists

[00:06:54] and some Baptists practice it. But yeah, I most often would, I guess at this point, put it with

[00:07:01] Catholic. Right. Right. Yeah. Not Jewish. At least from where we live in our perspective in the

[00:07:06] support portion of the world. Sure. Yeah. Sure. Which days are counted as being part of Lent?

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