Are there non-catholic faiths that practice fasting and sacrifice?

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This question is only out of curiosity really, because I was reading the old testament this morning where God describes what type of fasting He wants from us. Then I started reflecting further that God expects us to fast and to sacrifice for Him, and in a formal way. I know that the Jews and the Muslims practice fasting, both non-christian. I think the Anglicans and the Lutherans also teach that people should fast and sacrifice. Are there any other sacrificial faiths out there?
 
Loboto-Me said:
This question is only out of curiosity really, because I was reading the old testament this morning where God describes what type of fasting He wants from us. Then I started reflecting further that God expects us to fast and to sacrifice for Him, and in a formal way. I know that the Jews and the Muslims practice fasting, both non-christian. I think the Anglicans and the Lutherans also teach that people should fast and sacrifice. Are there any other sacrificial faiths out there?
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Orthodox Christians and Eastern Catholics follow (or are supposed to follow) a rather strict fasting regimen.
 
Loboto-Me said:
This question is only out of curiosity really, because I was reading the old testament this morning where God describes what type of fasting He wants from us. Then I started reflecting further that God expects us to fast and to sacrifice for Him, and in a formal way. I know that the Jews and the Muslims practice fasting, both non-christian. I think the Anglicans and the Lutherans also teach that people should fast and sacrifice. Are there any other sacrificial faiths out there?
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Historically, Lutheranism supported fasting and the like, though it is not widely practiced today.

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Some Pagans will fast before ritual, or will abstain from certain foods because a god or goddess wishes for them to do so, but there’s no requirement to do so unless your tradition happens to be strict about such things. Kemetic reconstructionists, in my experience, tend to be stricter about such things, whereas my tradition (and related traditions like Asatru) tends to prefer feasting to fasting, but it’s not a hard and fast rule.
 
Loboto-Me said:
This question is only out of curiosity really, because I was reading the old testament this morning where God describes what type of fasting He wants from us. Then I started reflecting further that God expects us to fast and to sacrifice for Him, and in a formal way. I know that the Jews and the Muslims practice fasting, both non-christian. I think the Anglicans and the Lutherans also teach that people should fast and sacrifice. Are there any other sacrificial faiths out there?
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Geez. The harder question is, “Which don’t?”

Pax,
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Orleans_Attny said:
Geez. The harder question is, “Which don’t?”

Pax,
OA
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I suppose you’re right! Let me rephrase then… Which religions DON’T practice fasting and sacrifice? Since I’m rephrasing, it made me think of a new question related to this… What’s their justification for NOT fasting and sacrificing?
 
Cavaradossi said:
Orthodox Christians and Eastern Catholics follow (or are supposed to follow) a rather strict fasting regimen.
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Don’t tell anybody but I include Orthodox and the Eastern Catholics within the Catholic religion… right and left lung and all 😉
 
Loboto-Me said:
Don’t tell anybody but I include Orthodox and the Eastern Catholics within the Catholic religion… right and left lung and all 😉
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I didn’t think it was Orthodoxy that was the “right lung”…I thought it was Eastern Catholicism that was the “right lung”?
 
Loboto-Me said:
Don’t tell anybody but I include Orthodox and the Eastern Catholics within the Catholic religion… right and left lung and all 😉
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I didn’t think it was Orthodoxy that was the “right lung”…I thought it was Eastern Catholicism that was the “other lung”?
 
Evangelicals fast. There just isn’t a set period throughout the year in which we “need to.”

I remember participating in fasts when our youth group did them.
 
FabiusMaximus said:
Evangelicals fast. There just isn’t a set period throughout the year in which we “need to.”

I remember participating in fasts when our youth group did them.
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In my Evangelical days…we fasted once a week…the money we would have spent on the food we abstained from, went into the “Alabaster Fund” to support missions.

Friends fast when the Light leads us to do so…“prayer and fasting” goes together some times.
 
Loboto-Me said:
Publisher, I agree 100% with this post below… that the Orthodox Church is the other lung 🙂

forums.catholic-questions.org/showpost.php?p=1329895&postcount=16
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Ahhh…Do Orthodox as a whole share the “two lung” belief? From what I understood…the RCC is not the “other lung” as far as Orthodox were concerned as a whole…I thought Eastern Catholicism was the “other lung” since EC’s shared communion with Rome…

Interesting…though you are not in communion with the Orthodox…you still consider them part of the Body of Christ…which due to schism is divided?

Is this a “universal” view of Catholicism concerning the “other lung”?

Perhaps another thread should be started…I don’t want to de-rail this thread on fasting.
 
Loboto-Me said:
This question is only out of curiosity really, because I was reading the old testament this morning where God describes what type of fasting He wants from us. Then I started reflecting further that God expects us to fast and to sacrifice for Him, and in a formal way. I know that the Jews and the Muslims practice fasting, both non-christian. I think the Anglicans and the Lutherans also teach that people should fast and sacrifice. Are there any other sacrificial faiths out there?
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The Eastern Orthodox fast like no other group of Christians out there! Take a look at what constitutes their Great Lent!! I believe their sacrificial intentions are more similar to the Catholics than the Anglican and Lutherans are.
 
Publisher, I think I’d enjoy following the new thread you start 🙂
 
Pentecostals fast, but there is no specific time when we are told we have to. There is an emphasis on coupling prayer with fasting.
 
Mormons fast once a month as a congregation, plus individually for personal spiritual reasons, combined with prayer.

Jews fast.

I think hindus fast. I think I was a Hindu once, in a past life.
 
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