# Why would someone become a Nazarite?

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**Created:** [March 6, 2011, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-someone-become-a-nazarite/573696 "2011-03-06T19:08:45Z")\
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> [@robert\_columbia](#):
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> Because taking a Nazarite vow was completely voluntary. Fish on Fridays, for Catholics, was in response to the fasting requirement up until Vatican II, and Sunday (or Sat. evening after Vatican II) was/is required under pain of mortal sin, subject to certain saving qualifications. Nothing in Judaism says that you are going to hell if you don’t become a Nazarite. So they aren’t really equivalent.

It’s doing something that you believe will please your god. In the end, everything is voluntary.

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