Roman Catholicism or... Talmudic? Why We Should Not Fall Into Religious Rigorism

Why do we mortify ourselves and does God want us to be sad and avoid the pleasures of life? A surprising answer to this question is provided by the inspired author of the Book of Ecclesiastes. The Book of Ecclesiastes (in Wujek's Bible called the Book of Ecclesiastes) is mainly associated with the words vanity of vanities and all is vanity. Even at school, we are given a lecture on the "vanitatious motif". Meanwhile, when we read not only the fi…