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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Mam

Geen idee. Het kwam enkele dagen geleden in 't journaal wel tamelijk uitgebreid aan bod.
Ik vind het trouwens maar vreemd dat christenen niet vasten, terwijl Jezus dat wel deed.

Alle christenen, als ze de Bijbel eens vastpakken, kunnen tot vasten aangezet worden.

Enkel bepaalde, meer "autoritaire" Kerken (katholieke, orthodoxe, ...) leggen dit aan gelovigen op tijdens een bepaalde tijd.

De hypocrisie hiervan werd terecht aangekaart door vroege protestanten. Eerst stonden deze afkerig ten opzichte van "uithongeringsmartelaarschap" (maar zo ging/gaat het er in de katholieke Kerk ab-so-luut niet aan toe), later volgde afstandelijk scepticisme en voorzichtig opnieuw proberen.

Ter inspiratie (Francis Howgill bij woorde van George Fox):

And as for your fasting, thou [de rooms-katholiek] boasts of, we know what it is, denying one sort of meat, and taking another, and fasting one day, and riotous another.

Fox vervolledigt:

This is the fast that the Lord requires, to deal the bread to the hungry; this Fast the Lord Requires of you all, then no Oppressor shall be in the Land, no Bond of Iniquity, and with the Fist of wickedness there shall be none to smite each other, but with the light Christ hath enlightened you withal, it shall be condemned, and it will lead to the true Fast, the everlasting day; then shall you see the Windows of heaven opened.

Your Fasting and Mourning for a day, as a custome, is not accepted with God, God accepts it not, to fast one day, and feast another; but this is the Fast that the Lord doth require of you, to break off the Bonds [of] Iniquity, to shew mercy to the Fatherless and Widdows, and let the oppressed go free; cast off your Pride, cast off your Highness, ambition and honor, for these things the drought comes upon you, and the plague, and the Famine, which is your figure, that you have the out-side, but you want the Water of Life; and this is come upon you which have tasted of the mercies of God, and deliverances, and then there was a tenderness in many of you, but now many are got into ease, and pride, stretching your selves upon your beds of ease, and the parched ground is a figure of your parched hearts.