March 2021

My dear friend,

Recently, someone unfriended me on Facebook because I questioned why Evangelicals are observing Lent. She argued that it is a time of reflecting on our sins, and giving up something. When I explained to her the dark meaning of Lent...she unfriended me!

Listen...

Evangelicals never used to observe Lent because it is a Catholic practice.  Of course, now Catholicism is infiltrating evangelical churches. They don't understand the dark mystery about Catholicism’s meaning of Lent. And the secret to unveiling this dark mystery is found in the ancient Babylonian liturgical wailing for Tammuz. 

Tammuz was a Babylonian deity worshipped by Jews who drifted into idolatry, and mentioned in Scripture. The Jews adopted the worship of Tammuz during the Babylonian captivity, and brought this abomination of mourning for Tammuz at the very gate of the temple.  In a visionary visit to the temple, Ezekiel finds a horror of abominations.  One abomination is the worship of Tammuz.

Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord’s house

which was toward the north; and,

behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.

Ezekiel 8:14

Matthew Henry comments: 

An abominable thing indeed, that any should choose rather to serve an idol in tears than to serve the true God with joyfulness and gladness of heart! Some think it was for Adonis, an idol among the Greeks, others for Osiris, an idol of the Egyptians, that they shed these tears…They bewailed the death of this Tammuz, and anon rejoiced in its returning to life again.

This abomination of mourning for Tammuz at the very gate of the temple seemed to the prophet Jeremiah one of the most abominable idolatries. 

The article on Tammuz in The Encyclopedia Britannica (1938) sheds light on the dark mystery of Catholicism's observance of Lent:

There is a strange inconsistency in the hymns of these wailings concerning the mother goddess to her lover, Tammuz.  In the early Sumerian texts she is his sister, but soon the Semitic view is that she is his mother prevails…It is obvious that a cult which is based upon the death and resurrection of a propitiating god, and upon the love of a divine mother who wails for her son, has direct connection with the facts and theological views based upon them, which gave birth to Christianity.

The cult of Tammuz did not give birth to Christianity. 

The cult of Tammuz gave birth to Catholicism.

The love of a divine mother who wails for her son is not Christianity…it’s Catholicism. It's Lent.

Clearly, Lent is rooted in the worship of Tammuz, the ancient cult based on the death and resurrection of a propitiating god, and upon the love of a divine mother who wails for her son.  Lent is a time of sorrow and penance; the Catholic Church is draped in mourning. “Regarding the Paschal days, however, popular devotion stresses Mary’s sorrow more than her joy, as can be found in countless versions of the Stations of the Cross and numerous images of the sorrowful mother and Pieta.” http://campus.udayton.edu/mary/eastertriduum.html

A pieta is a painting or sculpture of Mary holding and mourning over the dead body of Jesus.  “Pieta” is from Latin pietas meaning piety, or religious devotion. Undeniably, the focus of Lent is more on mourning the death of Mary’s son than the death of Jesus Christ our Redeemer. Clearly, Lent is the love of a divine mother who wails for her son: “wailing for Tammuz.”

It is unbiblical for Evangelicals to observe Lent.

It is an abomination for Evangelicals to observe Lent.

Grace and peace,

Karen Pansler Lam, J.D.
Liberty Advocate
http://www.libertyadvocate.com/