Organized religion created a counterfeit holiday called Lent which includes the following:
Mardi
Gras with parades and costumed parties.
Mardi Gras, (French: Fat Tuesday) festive day celebrated in France and some U.S. cities on Shrove Tuesday
(the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday), which marks the close of the
pre-Lenten season. The French name Mardi Gras means Fat Tuesday, from
the custom of using all the fats in the home before Lent in preparation
for fasting and abstinence.
The word Shrove:
The name comes from the old word 'shriving', which means to listen to someone's sins and forgive them.
In Anglo-Saxon England, Christians would go to church on Shrove Tuesday
to confess their sins and clean their soul. In other words, they would
be 'shriven'.
The
first day of Lent is Ash Wednesday. On this special day of reflection,
Catholics wear a marking of the cross in ash on their foreheads. The ashes symbolize our mortality – “Remember you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” But you might be wondering, where do the ashes for Ash Wednesday come from?
Lent is a 40 day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday. It's a period of preparation to celebrate the Lord's Resurrection at Easter.
None of the above activities have any basis in Scripture... purely man-made tradition by The Mother of Harlots
