I aint no religion that tells me what I can and cannot eat. I eat meat all the time.
who here does not eat meet on friday doing lent
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For Catholics, I'm pretty sure it's every Friday during Lent. I am not Catholic, so I'm not sure about that. Either way, that's several more than just one Friday a year.
You are correct it's only during Lent. Years ago it was a sacrifice. Today though with the "Friday Night Fish Fry" it's not much of one. In fact, my mom was telling me their church did a fish fry and a pasta bar where you can add shrimp, etc. to your pasta. That doesn't seem like much of a sacrifice to me.
You'd have to drink a lot of protein shakes.
And then you'd probably have diarrhea for the next 4 days.
Being Lutheran, I can eat meat whenever I want. And often do. Even if it's Lent. 
Prior to Vatican II, the mandate was to not eat meat on all Fridays throughout the year, not just during Lent, and to fast on all weekdays during Lent. Nowadays, it's just Ash Wednesday and Lenten Fridays.
It's just one reason I'm glad I'm a recovering Catholic. If I couldn't eat a sausage pizza or some smoked pork during a Lenten Friday, I'd probably kill someone.
Vatican II never lifted the prohibition on meat on Fridays throughout the year. Catholics are still required to abstain from consuming meat on all Fridays that are not Solemnities. However, Vatican II gave Catholics the option of substituting some other "penitential" act for abstaining from meat on Fridays outside of Lent.
I often think that belonging to a religion as bassackward as the Catholic Church is a sufficient penitential act.
I often think that belonging to a religion as bassackward as the Catholic Church is a sufficient penitential act.
I'll be damned. Not once did the teachers in my elementary, junior high and high school years (all through Catholic schools) suggest that. Thanks for the clarification.
You'd have to drink a lot of protein shakes.
And then you'd probably have diarrhea for the next 4 days.
I guess whey is not "meat". But yeah 350 grams a day! I have seen Ronnie Coleman take 500-600 grams.
RAMA
That's kind of the point. Giving up something to focus on God.
God also made deep fried haddock delicious too. I think of God every Friday in Lent when I consume the deliciousness of the haddock.
I'm a Presbyterian, so I didn't abstain from meat. I did give up wine for Lent, though - and I didn't think it bothered me until I noticed that the communion wine on Maundy Thursday (and it's this terrible, terrible "blush" wine) tasted...kind of good! Sad, really. But I made it, and I might do it next year, too. But man, that first glass Easter Sunday tasted soooo goooood.
