[In response to someone going on a juice fast for 40 days.]
You should NEVER go on such a votive fast without the blessing of your spiritual father.
Otherwise, you expose yourself to great spiritual danger. Our fasting should not be self-willed, but obedient.
Otherwise, it can bring us close to the demons, who never eat at all.
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That's right little fundies. Only by starving yourself in a dark room can you keep the demons out of your head. Better yet you shouldn't eat anything at all, and whatever you do! Don't leave the room!
Just stay inside until you all die. The world will be better off without you.
A juice fast? What kind of candy-assed, weak-kneed, bullshit devotion is that?
Smokers going cold turkey suffer worse, pissant.
"You should NEVER go on such a votive fast without the blessing of your spiritual father."
You should NEVER go on such a fast without the blessing of your physician.
As fictional characters, demons can get by quite well without eating. You, as a mostly real being, need to eat a balanced diet.
Oh really? Joke's over, Beezlebub! Stop eating all my freakin' food! Some fundie on the Internet told me you don't need to eat!
Stupid demons. You get one to help you do your chores and he eats you out of house and home, and then I find out they don't eat?
I must say, I've never heard of something like this before. Fasting is spiritual, except when we say it's not, then it's demonic. WTH?
Wow, first time I've ever heard a fundie say doing something pointless, painful, stupid and potentially dangerous might be a BAD idea. For the wrong reasons, of course, but it's a step.
You know, I really don't understand this Catholic Answers web site. Granted, I'm not Catholic myself, but I know plenty of Catholics, and none of the quotes from Catholic Answers have anything to do with what my Catholic friends know about, you know, their own religion. Is there a "normal, non-fundie" Catholicism and a "Catholic Answers" Catholicism now? Is the web site strictly for fundie Catholics?
If demons never eat, does that mean they violate the second law of thermodynamics?
Obviously, everyone's getting posessed by Maxwell's demon.
@Old Viking
So I'm not crazy, am I? Please tell me Catholic Answers is some sort of Rapture-Ready spin-off. From what I heard about Catholic education, it is boring as hell, but not quite as insane as this...
How pithy your advice is, perfect for all up and coming morons. If you're a cretin, then pay particular attention to the wisdom of Cluny. Clueless Cluny we used to call him, still do in fact.
More advice, from me this time, what you really want is a long, slow fast, lasting say 365 days or more, and you have my spiritual blessings for it which are more efficacious than your spiritual daddy's spiritual blessings and come with added stench and a loud bang.
Crap, this is the same stuff you hear daily on the Weight Watcher's "Spiritual" board. Only instead everyone is encouraging others to fast and pray for weight loss. People killing themselves slowly left and right.
Oh, and as I was raised Catholic, I have to give this a WTF... I don't remember fasting as something normal catholics did - sure there was lenten stuff, but that is hardly fasting.
"you expose yourself to great spiritual danger. Our fasting should not be self-willed, but obedient."
Really? I'd be more concerned about like... dying.
I think Catholic answers may be the Bill Donohue version of Catholicism.
As far as fasting though, it's mentioned 17 times in the KJV. Jesus himself said that faith can only come through prayer and fasting (Mark 9:29). It is amazing though how many fasters I met in Churches who never lost a pound (some actually gained). Probably because they're as hypocritical about fasting as they are about the rest of their religion.
Once, I exposed myself to spiritual danger.
Spiritual danger now has a restraining order issued against me.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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