LENT

[Paidiske]

I think there can be a sense of mutual support and encouragement, if fasting is a shared experience. I don't think it's automatically a kind of showing-off of one's piety, but it probably depends on context and on people's hearts (always a risky thing to judge over the internet!)

 

[timothyu]

Personally, I never understood the threads in religious forums asking what people were giving up for Lent.

I agree but I think you may have missed my point.