Catholics eat fish on Fridays in honor of the pagan Philistine god, Dagon (half man and half fish). This is why Catholics eat fish on Fridays.
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This is why Catholics eat fish on Fridays.
What fortune cookie did he read that in?
There are many theories about the ancient christian fasting rites. The most probable one about fish is that on fasting days, which were also ritual cleansing days, animals with red blood were left off the menu to stay ritually pure. The Sumerian(!) and later common Near Eastern God Dagan had nothing to do with it, even if he was represented as a hybrid.
Initially, the English ate fish on Fridays because King Henry VIII (yes, that one, head of the Church of England) wanted to support the fish industry. But as this is Davey, I can expect no reasonable hypothesis. Davey, I'd like to introduce you to Dunamis, and the other guy who slobbers all over Taylor Swift. What, you thought she was yours and yours alone?
The Shadow over Innsmouth is just fiction. Dagon was not a fish-god. That pseudoetymology comes from one of the Church Fathers. In other words, you are spreading Catholic church tradition! You are going to Hell, where a succubus in the form of Taylor Swift as a young girl shall dance most sensually just outside your grasp, and whenever you try to masturbate, your penis shall retreat deep within your body, and so shall it be for all eternity!
There must be a lot of Catholics here in Britain, then: especially after coming home from the pub on a Friday night.
Why, yours truly and my best friend little over a week ago, after partaking of a libation or three at his local pub, on the way back to his house we stopped off at a takeaway for Fish & Chips. That was on a Friday night. And he's a long-time Church of England Christian: Protestant .
All the Fish & Chip shops in the Unionist areas of Northern Ireland. [/Ian Paisley]
And care to say to the faces of all those Rangers fans in Glasgow - especially after leaving the boozer & previously having had eleventeen pints o' Heavy - that they're Left-footers?!
Trust me, your head will hit pavement after receipt of a Glasgow Kiss before his Fish Supper touches the same, Davey-boy.
But as no country will allow you in after the reason why you're now exiled on Guam, there's no way you'll be able to test that hypothesis: least of all in Scotland.
Okay wow.
Dagon's thought to be associated with agriculture and fertility. The whole fish thing is someone taking the facts to fit their perspective- ooh, sounds familiar.
Also, I'm a former Catholic, and while we didn't do the 'no meat on fridays' (unless it was Good Friday) I remember being told that the reason there's no meat on Fridays is because of the Crucifixion happening on a Friday. Of course, that might've just been a fairy tale to shut up a curious child...insert subtle joke here.
Lovecraft must be laughing his arse off if he still exists in some Great Beyond.
@Indicible
Also, as the local supporter of Hastur the Unspeakable (indicible, in French...): Ugh! Ugh! Iä Hastur cf'ayak'vulgtmm, vugtlagln vulgtmm! Ai!
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...When Hastur isn't trying to get into Mahiro's underpants, that is! [/"Haiyore! Nyaruko-san "] X3
I know who can get into my underpants:
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@Uilleam
Yotsuba possessing far more wisdom than the OP.
Your argument is valid . [/Azuma Kiyohiko]
Better not eat Spaghetti & Meatballs then, Davey-boy...!
We who are Touched by His Noodly Appendage do.
For someone that knows nothing about Catholics you KJV assholes sure like to talk about them.
Jealous much?
So sad to be version 874.8, Johnny come very lately make it up as you go along plagiarists of plagiarists.
Stop pretending you know stuff Dave.
If Dagon were a fish-god (which, as I said, is not the case), how would eating his mortal kin honour him? Wouldn't that possibly make him angry?
David mistakes Dagon for a pagan deity
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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