Every year, like clockwork, Ash Wednesday rolls around and kicks off the Roman Catholic tradition of Lent—a six-week-long spectacle of public piety where everyone puts on their best “mourning over sin” performance. And, of course, it’s not just the Catholics anymore. Eastern Orthodox, Anglicans, Lutherans, and Methodists have kept it alive, while more and more mainline Protestants and even Evangelicals have eagerly jumped on the bandwagon, desperate for a taste of ritualistic virtue-signaling.
At its core, Lent is about fasting—or at least, that’s what people claim. Traditionally, it involved abstaining from meat, but modernity has turned it into an anything-goes buffet of meaningless self-denial. Give up coffee? Social media? Chocolate? Sure, why not—because nothing says “spiritual discipline” like abstaining from caramel macchiatos while posting about it on Instagram.
Here are a few reasons Christians shouldn’t bother with Lent:
https://thedissenter.substack.com/p/reasons-why-you-should-not-observe
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