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"Cuisine Fasting is not plausible"????

My good friend Jason led me HERE where there is a post regarding fasting. Once again we see the Muslims getting recognition for their time of fasting with no mention at all - indeed no apparent understanding at all - of the fact that Christians have a tradition of fasting that goes back to the VERY beginning, nor that today 200+million Orthodox Christians around the world are in the midst of a fast. Good Night! I mean have the protestants of today ventured so far from the anceint path that they can no longer even see what the original path used to look like? Is the forest which seperates the Orthodox path from theirs so dense so as to prevent them from remembering? I fear it must be so! With Machete in hand they are nobly cutting their own ways through the thick jungle, but we - my Orthodox friends - are traveling the path explored in advance by those who have gone before us - centuries, yea even millennia before us. And fasting is apart of that path. Always has, always will.

The same post on this page says (sadly without any explanation) that cuisine oriented fasting is "less plausible" today than "cunsumption-oritented fasting." Now what the author means to say is that we might consider replacing the traditional food fast with a fast from buying material goods, but what the author fails to see is that the two are not at all unrelated and that the sure path of fasting exists for a very explicit purpose. But out there in the woods, I suspect it is difficult to see the signposts on the path, left by the Fathers and Mothers of the Church. My brief comment to the post:

It seems to me that in our time of plenty that cuisine oriented fasting is particulalry needed...the Fathers and Mothers of the Chruch have always taught that the stomach is the tyrant of desires and that living to please the stomach is the most base of all passionate desires. Subject yourself to the stomach and there is little doubt that you are unable to wrestle yourself free from any number of other sinful passions - including cunsummerism.