The last day of Mardi Gras is the wild celebration of Fat Tuesday. The rational is
to let it all hang out so you can prepare yourself for Lent and Easter. Bleary eyed
and hung over from a night of orgy-like celebration, Ash Wednesday begins the
time to abstain from temptations of the flesh.
However, there is absolutely no basis in scripture for any of these religious
practices. It is purely Pagan in origin and current practice.
ìSuch a Lent of forty days was observed in EgyptÖThis
Egyptian Lent of forty daysÖwas held expressly in
commemoration of Adonis or OsirisÖî 37The observance of Lent is directly tied to Tammuz.ìAmong the Pagans this Lent seems to have been an
indispensable preliminary to the great annual festival in
commemoration of the death and resurrection of Tammuz,
which was celebrated by alternate weeping and rejoicingÖî 38ìIndeed, in the Mysteries of Tammuz or Adonis a whole week
was spent in lamentations and mourning. The funeral
processions were succeeded by a fast and later by rejoicings;
for after the fast Adonis-Tammuz was regarded as raised
from the deadÖî 39The LORD calls this celebration an abomination.ì[the LORD said] unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt
see greater abominations that they do. Then he brought me to
the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the
north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.î
Ezekiel 8:13-14 (emphasis mine)
Like Christmas, the ecumenists labeled these pagan celebrations of Easter and
Lent Christian in the hope of swaying the heathen towards the compromised
gospel of Constantine.
ìTo conciliate the Pagans to nominal Christianity, Rome,
pursuing its usual policy, took measures to get the Christian
and Pagan festivals amalgamated, and, by a complicated but
skilful adjustment of the calendar, it was found no difficult
matter, in general to get Paganism and Christianity ñ now
far sunk into idolatry ñ in this as in so many other things, to
shake hands.î 40 (emphasis mine)