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Abstinence or fasting: which word to choose?

2021-08-12T10:08:08.021Z


Jean-Loup Chiflet deciphers the nuances of the French language, giving the exact meaning of each word.


Which of these two practices is more attractive?

Those who love life find it hard to answer.

Abstinence

means deprivation of certain pleasures.

If it is food, I want to call it "diet", which replaces an entrecote with a soy steak and a Heineken with a non-alcoholic beer.

Sexual, it is a punishment that we inflict on ourselves.

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Body and soul on the diet

The

fasting

is total and voluntary starvation which, for Christians, makes the encounter with God.

Same creed among Muslims, who make Ramadan fasting the 4th pillar of Islam.

Because when you don't eat, you put your body on a diet, and your soul too.

This famine wanted by a spirit of mortification, the three million human beings who die of hunger each year in the world find it difficult to understand.

For them, this choice to fast because we want to is almost indecent ...

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Source: lefigaro

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