Lent Rant: Giving Shit Up

Part 1: Mardi Gras
Part 2: Ash Wednesday
Part 3: Giving Shit Up
Part 4: No Meat
Part 5: Palm Sunday
Part 6: Holy Thursday
Part 7: Good Friday
Part 8: ...Saturday
Part 9: Easter Sunday
Part 10: The Ascension

Giving Shit Up

After Ash Wednesday, not much happens for a few weeks. The only thing going on is trying not to forget what you gave up for Lent. You see, Catholics are progressive in a way, Socratic* even. Instead of saying to keep Kosher, or Fasting, or no Sex (unless you're gay. Then it's always a  no-no), or anything like that, we turn it on every Catholic to say, "What do you think you should do for God?"

*No, I don't know what Socratic means, but it makes me sound smart, and most people won't call me on it.

This practice is why I call Lent "New Year's Part 2". Because people, having failed to practice better living by eating better and not drinking when they said they would in January, are ready to give it another go. Especially since this time, there's a deadline. I would always be the douche who would give up Coke, candy, but then, mostly, religion, thus nullifying the first two.

Some people take it really seriously and give up a lot of stuff. Once again though, these are Catholics we are talking about, so the whole time they are abstaining, they are buying all sorts of foreign chocolates and cokes in glass bottles so they can go on that Easter celebratory binge. And don't even get me started on those people who pull that "Sunday doesn't count toward Lent" shit. I'll see you in Hell.