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They fast for lent. Lent is 40 days between ash Wednesday and Easter.

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"Lent" isn't in The Bible, as far as I know. I am a Christian, but I don't practice lent. I don't know why it is practiced by some Christians.

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What if you drop the Torah?

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The days to fast and abstain appointed by the church?

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