re: Lent Question - Alligator Meat

You must have never attended a Catholic school. In elementary school they drilled into our heads that if you knowingly ate meat on a Friday then it is a mortal sin and if you die before you went to confession then to Hell you would go. Now purgatory was another matter. It was a place where you suffered for a little while and after you suffer, you would go to Heaven. Now let's talk about Limbo. It was a place where un baptized babies went. They would be happy but they would never see the face of God. Just recently the Catholic Church did away with Limbo. They won't do away with purgatory because purgatory is a money maker. You have to pay to have a mass said for a deceased soul. Don't tell me that I'm full of crap because for one, my mother spent a lot on having masses said for my deceased brother. I was an altar boy when I had to learn all of that Latin. Back in those days the priest didn't say mass facing the people. Vatican Council brought about the changes. Limbo isn't in the Bible and neither is purgatory. After being fed all of that crap in school I now understand how communism worked on the people it controlled and how Hitler brain washed his followers into believing what he said. I left the Catholic religion fifteen years ago and I'm glad that I did. I now belong to a religion that sticks to what Jesus taught. I wonder how many souls are currently burning in hell for knowingly eating meat on a day of fasting.

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Eastern Orthodox almost every Wednesday and Friday don’t eat any animal with a backbone, dairy, or alcohol.

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Or olive oil - and in addition to Wed and Fri it's just about every day during Lent, with a few exceptions.