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Fast, Don't fast. It is a matter for the individual to decide for him or her self. What I object to is religionists who insist on wearing their piety on their sleeves. "Look at me, I'm fasting for a twelve hours a day to prove how much better I am than you."

It is like the wearing of pins and ribbons to show that you have donated to various charities. The biblical injunction, in this as with most other things, is to perform such acts in secret, so that it is known only to God. Trumpeting it in public renders the trumpeter open to accusations of being a Pharisee, and we all know what Jesus's opinion of the Pharisees was!