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April 8th, 2011
01:19 PM ET
Man hits 31st day of beer-only Lenten fastBy Eric Marrapodi, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor The story of Iowa newspaper editor and beer blogger J. Wilson, who is drinking only beer and water for Lent, has gained a lot of attention this week. On Friday morning he checked in with CNN Newsroom and explained his fast to Carol Costello. Read Wilson's story here: For Lent, can man live on brew alone? Wilson is 31 days into his fast, with 16 more to go. He drinks four beers a day during the week and five beers a day on the weekend. He told Costello he was enjoying his breakfast brew during the interview, which was conducted by phone. The tradition of a beer fast dates back hundreds of years to German monks. That's where Wilson got the idea for his fast. In researching extended fasts, he learned the first three days are typically the most brutal. He told CNN Friday that the first day he felt a lot of hunger pains. But by day two the pains had largely disappeared. He said he thought the fast would be much harder than it has been so far. To date, Wilson has dropped about 18 pounds. He plans on breaking his beer only fast on Easter Sunday, in keeping with Christian tradition about Lent. Watch an Explain it to Me video on Lent. Watch CNN Newsroom weekdays 9am to 3pm ET and weekends. For the latest from the CNN Newsroom click here.
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He lost 18lbs. So much for the beer belly theory!
Our lager,
Which art in barrels,
Hallowed be thy drink.
Thy will be drunk, (I will be drunk),
At home as it is in the pub.
Give us this day our foamy head,
And forgive us our spillage's,
As we forgive those who spill against us.
And lead us not to incarceration,
But deliver us from hangovers.
For thine is the beer, The bitter, The lager.
BARMEN
^ Great post! Thanks!
BURRRRPPPPP.....AMEN!
Admit it folks, Jesus is black. And it's OBAMA! Wake up! Obama is the black Jesus. 2012 is just around the corner... so pray to the lord! REPENT your sins, and hail the black Jesus.
He'd reach Easter a lot healthier on a juice fast.
He's not getting drunk, but this kind of diet is very dangerous. Please, don't try it.
Everyone knows this kind of diet only works with Bacardi 151 😉
I thought Hitler gassed all the catholic germans?
wow so sad since the BIBLE says wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler like to know what kind of church this guy goes to and what kinda of lies this church is selling him
jerry – So I guess you believe Jesus turned water into Coca-Cola?
@tyler Just as likely as turning water into wine. The early Christian church turned a great man into a giant lie. He was a great teacher who did good things in our world, but he was NOT harry potter.
What's with all this bickering my sons?
@ Stephen Daedelus
Wow someone misread Joyce.
say good-bye,to his liver.
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Daniel, you reading your comments on this page, you sound like the BIGGEST tool!
Beer is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy – B. Franklin
NATE – you're a fool, with foolish words. If God didn't want murderers, then his creatures wouldn't create murder. God didn't create people in order for them to create beer. He created man to make decisions. And some men create foolish things, do foolish things and leave foolish comments.
From what I have learned from the Bible, calling someone a fool is a no-no. Try to enjoy the gist of this story and drop the religious piety. Go throw your stones somewhere else. Nice way to witness. Clown.
Let the one who has not sinned case the first stone....
*cast
they're actually hunger pangs, not pains
If its a pain and caused by hunger, you can call them hunger pains.
24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not!
While I agree 4 beers to me right now would barely be felt and splitting it out on 16hrs would make it even less so. You guys are discounting that he is eating NOTHING. He is only drinking beer and water and eats no food. My guess is that by day 40 he gets buzzed from 1-2 beers........
Actually, with his miniscule average BAC of .003 or less, its highly unlikely he would feel any buzz, except maybe for a fleeting moment after each beer, if he chugged it, which, since he's drinking real beer, he's probably not chugging it. And as the days go on, he would actually build tolerance, so whatever he felt, buzz-wise, in the first day, would diminish each day throughout the fast.
You actually think 4 beers TOTAL in 1 day is a "partial state of drunkeness"? That's a pretty funny story.
Do you reall think the Lord who fasted for 40 days on his way to to being the savior of all mankind thinks very highly of this Bozo who is keeping his self in a partial state of drunken ness under the pretence of something "holy". He better enjoy this life because he is going to hate the next one.
4 to 5 beers a day is not drunk. That's spread out over 16 hours.
Partial state of drunkenness? What are you 25 lbs? 4-5 beers a day is no where near drunk, I know plenty of people, myself included, that can get through a case before they start to feel anything. And as far as enjoying his "next" life, if God Didn't want us to have beers, then his creatures, wouldn't help create it.
How sad the pious pass judgment on others so easily. You claim to be Christian? Nice try, Bill.
JC=clown. dude please stop with the preaching. you are clueless.
...and the middle age monks who fasted only on beer were more pious than you...
I hope you come down from your self inflated high horse and realize nobody agrees with you. You don't know Jesus any better than anyone else.
I don't drink. One beer gets me ****faced. As in falling down, couldn't pass a sobriety test drunk. What's funny though is my blood alcohol level would be legal for driving.
Idiotic. This is a practice that has been around for more than a millenia as a fast. 4 beers a day means he would have an average BAC of about 0.003 (about 1/24th the legal limit to drive in the most restrictive states.) Jesus and his disciples drank. Your just exemplifying the many so-called Christians who focus on small aspects of the bible and throw the rest away.
Well tecnically He drank all the time. In fact beer (or some form of alcohol) was a main part of the diet back then. It was easy to make, easy to maintain, and gave you a pretty decent amount of nutrients. It was only till later His life that he told the apostles He wasn't going to drink anymore.
First, at the time of this "monk-fast", beer was far more common to drink than water which was often polluted. That wasn't religious, just practical, so a water-fast would probably be closest in the modern era.
Second, didn't your "lord and savior" turn water into wine, and ask for a drink before getting offed? 🙂
You represent a good portion of what is wrong with our country today. Wake up human, use your brain, and if you find you have one, how about you knock some sense into your Fox News watching dim witted neighbors while you're at it.
Unless I'm mistaken, by passing judgement on another you have taken it upon yourself to make the Lord's work for him. Are you qualified to to do this work or are you merely placing your own values upon others? "Let he who is without sin, cast the first stone"
..here we have living proof that ignorance is bliss
No, I don't think the "Lord" thinks anything about him, because the "Lord" is a figment of your collective sheeple imaginations.
Your salvation doesn't depend on if you drink beer of not.
Drinking beer to honor something that sounds like it comes out of a dryer. Weird.
I thought he was drinking to honor your mama... yeah, that's right.
My mother is dead. How could you be so cruel?
If she's dead, I think you can rest assured that she won't mind. You make a joke about a religion (as I just did), you're going to get some rough responses. =P
Well...in all fairness my mom is dead too but I don't expect people to know this unless I tell them. That having been said don't drink a beer in her honor! God, she hated the stuff...
because i am a doouche bag.
i also suffer from erectile difficulties.