Well I'm not sure at what point it is ever acceptable to change the rules when it comes the obedience of the things of God. One of the reasons people are more familiar with Ramadan than Lent or Fasting is that the Muslims tend to display more discipline than Christians do, and that is a shame. As Christians we constantly change the rules to suite others or to make our faith more appealing and acceptable to the mainstream, when in fact we are doing our faith a dis service. It is the discipline of the other religions that has the appeal. We can not concern ourselves with the acceptance of the masses when it comes to the things of God.

This is kind of stupid. So what are we going to start doing? Renaming "Christmas" to "Santa's Claus' travel day" since it is more commonly known by younger people?

Ramadan and Lent are two different things and I think its borderline blasphemous to be using the term of a pagan religion (And in light of the truth of Jesus Christ that is all Islam is) to describe a very serious and holy period of time.

I'm a Protestant and I do not observe Lent and yet I am still very offended by this.

We are what we are: Christians. Children of God. Explain it to them if they don't understand...stop trying to make Christianity palatable and let it be what it is.

it is absolutly obsurd and hillarious. Let us start building christian mosques./

There's Christian theories that the Roman Catholic church is going to be heading towards this 'One United Religion' thing. I don't know too much about it, but this seems to be one step towards it.

Here we go again, neither are the trains to meet. If you have ever been in the Middle East, or in an Islamic country, they too, don't always follow their religous ramadan. Most would like to travel to Meca and follow the teachings of Mohamed, but they don't all do that. I would say that they all don't follow their lentin period at all. The only reason you hear about it is that it is plastered on every channel on your local TV stations. People either trying to explain their religion or the islamic religion. The bible says there will be many false teachings, so if you follow the bible you will understand. I as a Christian believe the bible to be the true word of God and that is what I will follow. We all need to understand the fundemental aspects of other religions, but follow the truth of God. In God's Grace John

It sounds sketchy to me.

Islam is not a "pagan" religion. It may not be the most perfect understanding of God and his relation to his creation, but it is monotheistic. As Malcolm X observed when he returned from Mecca (that was when he started reaching out to African American Christians, instead of denouncing Christianity as a "white man's religion"), "The God we worship is the one who created the universe. Isn't that the God you believe in?" It is a terrible error to translate Arabic text into English and leave al-Lah untranslated. It is not a name, it is simply Arabic for "The God." There is no god but The God.

That said, Ramadan is not Lent, and vice versa. It is getting very silly that to have mutual respect, some people want to blend everything. One superficial difference: during Ramadan, the observant faithful fast all day, then feast after sunset. During Lent, the observant faithful stuff themselves to excess before the 40 days begin (Grosse Tuesday, Carnaval...) then eat a limited and frugal diet, day or night. Lent is an observance of the crucifixion of the Son of God, the Lamb slain for the sins of the world. Ramadan is a simple obligation to the Creator, within a theology that recognizes Jesus as the last great prophet before Muhammed, rather than as the Christ. Not identical.