Why do protestants eat meat during lent?

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Why do protestants eat meat all during lent and then on good friday they want be gluttonous and fill up on fish and crawfish as if as if they deserve to have like nothing even happen?
 
It’s not a discipline for them. We should stay in our lane.
 
Fasting on Good Friday and refraining from met on Fridays during Lent is a Discipline of the Catholic Faith (the Orthodox do it too).

Fasting is a “work” to most Protestants, and most protestants today are Sola Fide (Faith Alone). So many protestants (if not most) don’t see the necessity in such works like fasting (even though Christ himself fasted).
 
That’s pretty uncharitable to other religions. It’s against CAF rules to denigrate other religions.
 
As a spinoff from the OP, when and where did Lent originate? I’ve always been given to understand that it’s one of those things that are lost in the mists of time. Is there any mention of it in the early fathers such as Irinaeus or Ignatius of Antioch?
 
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I was more confused on that part. I hate fish and crawfish. Me to over indulge on that would rather be a pretty big penance…
 
I don’t eat crawfish at all fish though. Crawfish is a Louisiana thing.
 
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I don’t know. I had a similar question about Catholics. Why do Catholics eat meat on Fridays. They used to observe abstinence from meat on all Fridays of the year. Why do Catholics have such a short fasting period before receiving holy Communion? Some Orthodox churches recommend a much longer fasting period.
 
The Catholic Church teaches that “The divine law binds all the Christian faithful to do penance each in his or her own way.” ( see Canon 1249). The Church appoints certain days or seasons for Penance to help ensure we comply with this divine law and to help unite us by common observance (see the same Canon).

Depending on the Protestant community, some have their own penitiential days or seasons (often based on the Catholic ones, like Lent) and some don’t even believe in penance at all (for these folks, this isn’t usually based on gluttony–although it may have been for some of those that started the division–but rather on the mistaken doctrine that Christ’s death on the Cross removes the need for penance.)

For better or worse, the Catholic Church in the West itself over the centuries has progressively had less and less appointed penitential days and less strict penances leaving it more to the individual to fulfill the divine mandate to do penance.
 
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Why do protestants eat meat all during lent and then on good friday they want be gluttonous and fill up on fish and crawfish as if as if they deserve to have like nothing even happen?
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A Protestant eating fish or seafood on Good Friday in recognition of Jesus’ sacrifice is not any less meritous than a Catholic who’s done that all Lent. You seem to want to imply that Catholics somehow are more pious becuase they forgo meat for a larger numer of weeks.
 
I have a couple of friends who are former protestants, now Catholic, and they both chuckle and say that Lent was that hardest thing to adjust to as new Catholics. I can imagine it would be. Lent is just not on a protestant’s radar.
 
It’s just the way that a lot of them do like they are so much better.
 
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Why do protestants eat meat all during lent and then on good friday they want be gluttonous and fill up on fish and crawfish as if as if they deserve to have like nothing even happen?
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Some do, and some don’t.

But a lot of Protestants really don’t honor or recognize liturgical seasons so much. They don’t see Lent as any different that September or any other time of the year. If they are inclined to fast, it can be during any month.
 
Unless Protestants have Catholic relatives, they don’t observe or understand Lent. When the announcement comes on the news at the end of Mardi Gras that “Ash Wednesday is tomorrow and thus, the beginning of Lent for Catholics,” many Protestants shrug and say, “That’s only for them. (Catholics). We’re Christians. We don’t do that.”

However, I’ve noticed an increasing number of Protestants getting ashes on their foreheads on Ash Wednesday. For some, it is an effort to understand the significance of ashes for Catholics. For others, I can’t say. I don’t know their hearts. But I do know that for many Protestants in my area, it doesn’t go beyond getting the ashes. Many of my Protestant friends have told me they don’t try to observe the whole season of Lent as we do.
 
My mom’s husband used to always tell me that catholic teachings are wrong and that when Catholics sin they are not forgiven and other crazy stuff.
 
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