What are you giving up for lent

[Orcs]

So what are you all giving up for lent - if anything.

I have had a think  and have come up with a list to choose from

The Totty thread
Being rude (sorry truthfull) about the French.
Buying more figures.
Spending too much time on wargames forums
Beer.

After lots of careful thought I have decided that in the true spirit of Lent I will give up on the hardest one of the above. So after Tuesday I will only be telling lies about the French.

[FierceKitty]

Celibacy
Bad grammar
Rock music
Religion

[Steve J]

Nothing at all .

[goat major]

aztecs
tanks
religious festivals

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

What is Lent ?

IanS

[SV52]

I gave at the office.

[DanJ]

What is Lent ?

A reason for giving up something you like for something which doesn't exist

[Hertsblue]

What is Lent ?

IanS

That which is borrowed. 

[Luddite]

Christianity is the belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.

I shall not be giving up anything for Lent.

[Chad]

Well that sums up the Bible. 

Chad

[nikharwood]

Christianity is the belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.

I shall not be giving up anything for Lent.

I'm giving up reading anti-faith drivel that self-contradicts by referring to a system contained within said faith whilst coming up with phrases like "cosmic Jewish Zombie" - especially when it's lifted from urbandictionary.com 

[mollinary]

Unrealistic resolutions that will only result in guilt and a feeling of failure when I don't keep to them.
Oh, and alcohol, and chocolate, and being nasty to people, and thinking I am always right, and.............. Oh damn, damn, damn!!!!!!


Mollinary

[Luddite]

I'm giving up reading anti-faith drivel that self-contradicts by referring to a system contained within said faith whilst coming up with phrases like "cosmic Jewish Zombie" - especially when it's lifted from urbandictionary.com 

Nothing that is anti-faith is drivel.

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies. [George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903)]

[Orcs]

Some definitions of faith are listed below. (Online dictionary)

1-Confident belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing.
2- Strong or unshakeable belief in something, esp without proof or evidence
3 - A set of principles or beliefs

So Luddite do have definite proof or evidence that there is no God/Supreme being?   I am certain you don't as many great minds have been trying to prove  this unsucessfully one way or the other for millenia.

Thus your own anti faith stance is your own personal belief or faith ie  you have a "Strong or unshakeable belief in something,without proof or evidence"

I started this post as a humerous look at what people might think about giving up for lent, as the comments by FK and others  show - not so that you could use it to ridicule others beliefs.

[Shecky]

My daughter is giving up the iPad. Though I should, that seems too drastic for me. She also suggested I give up painting. Now that really ain't gonna happen 

I'll probably stick with the tried and true, giving up sweets. I already gave up alcohol.