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| Beauty bound in a burka? Free in hijab (dreamstime.com) |
Hey, don't you mean FASTING? Yes, but David Wood (below) assures us it's actually FEASTING that will be happening all of this Muslim-month, with lots of sleep and deluded back-patting of how "pious" and "holy" we're being in observance of sacred traditions.
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| The many benefits of fasting |
It seems even more ridiculous in Holy Roman Catholicism, at least the American version, where asking good Catholics to "fast" -- abstain from eating dead animals in the form of "meat" -- was just too much to ask. Forty days without dead fish? How is McDonald's supposed to make money? (Are fish animals? We thought they were).
Eat all the seed-bearing plants and fruit in the world, which the good God hath made: Genesis 1:29 quotes the God as saying, "Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food. But that's not good enough. We need to kill animals, or pay people to kill them for us, even during Lent, a 40-day period of abstaining and austerity, abandoning all kinds of bad habits. Does Protestantism advocate fasting? Sort of.
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| Bhagavan Bhakthi (Hinduism devotion) |
- Fast fast (take nothing but air)
- Water fast (just drink lots of water)
- Juice fast (just take fresh juices, but be careful of the natural sugar content separated from its healthy fiber)
- Fast all day (24 hours)
- Fast part of the day (from 12 noon to about 6:00 am)
- Fast all night (like when sleeping, avoiding after dinner snacks)
- Fast part of the night (like during Ramadan, after the giant feast dinner, staying up all night to digest before ruining that digestion with a big breakfast, before the recovery-sleep done all of the rest of the day)
- Food? Give it a rest and clean house, as fasting allows the body to clean itself like a self-cleaning oven, the energy-consuming organs of digestion.
- All forms of fasting are good for the body, if undertaken correctly. It may seem scary because we overeat and are sugar addicts with diabetes, prediabetes, and all sorts of metabolic syndrome conditions, which fasting would eventually clear
- Who's healthier and more alive than someone trapped for a time without food, finding all the senses heightened and fully alert?
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Fasting, the Islamic way: FEASTing
The REAL Ramadan rules we never knew existed
Indeed, binge eating during Ramadan is causing a health crisis in Muslim countries. So why is gluttony and excess portrayed as strict discipline and self-control in Islam?
Is there a spiritual component to Ramadan? Christian critic David Wood explores the issue and uncovers the disturbing truth about Islam's holiest month.
Articles cited:
- "Not so fast: Ramadan sees rise in binge eating and A&E cases": cnn.com/2013/08/07/world...
- "The Economic Impact of Ramadan on the Food Sector": hlb.global/the-economic-i...
- "The puzzle of self-reported weight gain in a month of fasting (Ramadan) among a cohort of Saudi families in Jeddah, Western Saudi Arabia": ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
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