The Religion Cocktail

Ruth Gledhill, the religion correspondant for The Times, has dropped in my estimations as she took Boris Johnson’s suggestion to practice Ramadan in order to sympathise with Muslims. Boris, the kind-hearted and muddled fellow that he is, asked his employees to forsake biscuits on their tea breaks in order that their fellow colleagues could have a slightly easier day at work. It seems he’s forgotten he’s mayor of London, which is the capital of England. Tea breaks without biscuits is something that hasn’t had to have been foregone since ration books, and we’re not about to start now; sharia law or not.

Of course, these days, a cocktail of religious festivals is the way forward if you want true enlightenment…
Or if you want to lose weight.

Watch out for other religious fasts across the wide ranging worldviews of Islam, buddhism, Judaism, and others, while I stick to feast of Jesus.

Fasting is irrelevant until we realise what a feast we have in Him. Then fasting becomes another form of worship, instead of a complete self-indulgent attempt at sympathy and weight-loss combined.

If you fast in a foreign land, which, my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ, we do whether you were born here, or born-again here, you should complain about the gluttonous nature of your colleagues. Free will has been around for long enough for us to know that the greatest gift we can give us choice. And if our lives present even an aroma of Jesus, we will get into trouble anyway.