To suffer like Jesus suffered.

I have come to the conclusion that Lent is nothing more than half-assed, watered-down, religious, dogmatic bullshit. I will explain this in a couple of examples, and specifically show how they do not, in any shape manner or form, show any " suffering " and more-less, " suffering like Jesus suffered."

The first being " not to curse " - cursing consists of " Fuck, Shit, God-damn, Mother-fucker, Asshole, Darn, Heck, Damn, Hell, Jesus Christ... " and the list an go on and on. Life is rather easy not to curse, in fact there are people who live without lent and not cursing. To make this half-assed suffering more like Jesus, I propose that it be changed to a vow of silence. To not speak to anyone for the duration of lent would show more suffering, although not be anywhere near Jesus', than " not cursing "

The second being " not eating ( insert whatever ) " - this seems to be a popular " suffering " - although again, half-assed. I believe that I wont eat pizza anymore. Whoop-de-shit. You've given up nothing. I believe I will give up eating french-fries. LA DA DE. Jesus had to carry a heavy cross down a road, and then was proceeded to be nailed to it. To suffer much the same way, you are avoiding one sort of food. My proposition? To eat nothing but bread and drink nothing but water - there you go. How about bread and water? And no, not water, with bread and peanut butter and jelly. Just bread. Just water. Thats it. Again - that would be suffering, but nowhere near as jesus suffered.

Thirdly - " Im not going to wear jeans " - this is so ... I wont even touch it. Along the same lines " Im not going to wear anything " is sort of inappropriate for our times. so I couldnt come up with anything along the lines of clothing. This is how bad this is, I cannot even come up with a better version of it - because there is no bloody way ( can you come up with a better, like minded mode of ' suffering' ? )

Fourthly - " Im not going to have sex " - close, but no cigar. Unless your married, you shouldnt be having sex anyway ( this is if you are following some form of other religious idealism ) - but in the event you've just decided to PICK UP LENT FOR SOMETHING TO MAKE YOURSELF FEEL BETTER - then abstaining from sex is a grand idea. Although still, nowhere near the suffering of jesus, and half-assed. You'll go home and masturbate - " Hey I said sex, not masturbation " - or you'll go home and look at pornography - " Hey I said sex, not watching sex " - or you'll go home and you'll get a blowjob - " Hey I said sex, not sodomy. " - and so it goes and so it goes. This proposition is easy - Celibacy. All forms of sexuality what-so-ever are null and void for you. whee.

But as you see - I have stated that none of these are close to, or match, the ' suffering of jesus ' - because there isnt a god-damned single one of you who can match that. Our times are different, and you've got plenty of laws protecting you from any sort of suffering. You're all sheltered by the government and dont even fear God anymore. You come up with half-assed shitty concepts for things that once meant something. The point is not to " suffer like Jesus " but to attempt to suffer like Jesus. To make some sort of effort to inflict suffering onto yourself, to show that you too can bear suffering for the greater good. The majority of those I've interviewed have already " failed " whatever they gave up for lent. It makes me wish that half way through his big spiel Jesus said " you know what, i cant take this - so Im just going to give up " - that would have been a better Jesus for all of you to suffer like. Suffer like the half-assed Jesus. Suffer like the Jesus who quit.

So what do you think?
( also, this would have been a much beter post, but it got deleted twice, so I just got pissed off and did the jist of it ) augh.