Why would someone become a Nazarite?

[Acsenray]

@robert_columbia

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.