For this blog post, I am just gonna go right into the main topic. How was the feast of fools even allowed to exist much less become establish in the 12th century. Many people died from doing some of the stuff done at this feast. Before getting into specifics, the entire thing resembled pagan rituals. Just that should have been enough to shut the thing down. The early church was not very tolerant of pagans even to the point of killing the pagans who did not convert to Christianity. In the feast of fools, certain aspects of the church were mocked, specifically church leaders and church life. People who had an opinion that was against what the church said were banished from the church. It makes no sense that the church itself would then do the same thing against itself. It is just absurd that this ritual was able to go on for four centuries like it did until it was finally shut down. Honestly, it seems a little hypocritical.
I commented on Clabo's and Haylee Lynd's post
I'll admit, the same thing crossed my mind. Why was such a thing even associated with the Church?? I guess there is no way to know their exact thought processes but it still leaves us dumbfounded when we look back and see something like this. All we can do now is learn from their mistakes and prevent something like that from being initiated again.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking the same thing. Like how did you allow this for so long? I work at a church and being apart of/seeing all the thought and discussion that goes into everything we do from the songs we sing to what we post on social media to whatever else may be huge or small makes me really wonder why they weren't discussing this more. It should have been realized sooner that it didn't line up with the Bible.
ReplyDeleteIt isn't just a little hypocritical!! Look, if we want to pursue this discussion, let us look at the history of Mardi Gras. Too uncomfortable? Then let's talk about how many churches have decided to have Super Bowl Sundays off.
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