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Posted on 12/06/2013 6:45:31 AM PST by Gamecock
So, Rick Warren has a new diet book about to be released. Surprise, surprise, it centers around 40 days of eating healthier.
I agree that a healthy diet is very important. I am pretty strict about what I consume, and watch my weight. I exercise regularly, and I strive to control my blood pressure with a low sodium diet. I get it.
But why is it that celebrity pastors inevitably feel compelled to mind everybody else's business when it comes to food. For Pete's sake, why do I need Rick Warren to tell me what to eat (actually he has two co-authors who are MDs who will tell me what to eat).
Big deal, Rick Warren's lost weight. Haven't we all at one time or another? Sure, he's noticed "dunlap's" disease among more than a few of those attending Saddleback (Click Here). He's concerned for them. Fine. Yet, what business is it of Rick Warren's if some people in his church eat too much? Besides, gluttony has far more to do with the human heart than it does with someone's weight.
One new form of legalism is food. No so much what you eat, but what others eat. If you don't eat "gluten-free," people have a fit. Are you eating "Paleo?" No, and remind me, what was the average life-span of a caveman? About thirty? Others ask me, "haven't you tried Kale yet?" "It is a super food," whatever that is. I always thought a "super food" was a large cheese, sausage, and pepperoni pizza washed down by a cold beer. Or a western bacon cheeseburger with onion rings. I cannot understand why some cabbage-like plant which tastes awful is a "super" anything--unless you throw it in your Nutri-Bullet, pulverize it into a million pieces, and then kill the bitter taste with an apple.
If Rick Warren can do it, I can do it. I've decide to write my own diet book. It will be eschatologically focused--"your resurrection body now"--and based upon seven-years of pure tribulation. It will be self-published, and not distributed. Why? Because I don't care what you eat, so long as you leave me alone to eat whatever I want. Trust me. I'll do my best to eat a healthy diet. And I know you will too.
There, now I feel better and I burned-off a few calories while composing this.
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To sell books? I'm sure the man has bills to pay.
A minister will write just about any kind of book....to get an audience. How to fry chicken, the best way to maintain a yard, or perhaps the quickest way to get a divorce in Texas. Frankly, I’d rather than ministers stick with religious stuff and ethical behavior. Beyond that....would anyone listen to some minister discuss timing on a Ford F-150?
Rick Warren—of Hubris-Driven Life fame.
Honestly did laugh out loud.
2 lbs. of Kale with extended stems removed
2 tbsp. olive oil
5 cloves of garlic, minced
1/2 cup of chicken broth
1 tbsp. red wine vinegar
Salt & pepper to taste
1. In a large frying pan with a lid, saute garlic in olive oil over high heat briefly (before it turns brown), add kale tossing until all the kale is starting to wilt and is wet with oil.
2. Add chicken broth, cover with lid and lower heat to medium for 5 minutes.
3. Remove lid and let cook until broth has steamed off.
4. Pour kale into a serving bowl and toss with sprinkled vinegar, salt and pepper. Serve.
This recipe is pretty good, gets kale into your diet and doesn't add a bunch of fat and starch like some recipes.
And I don't even believe in that TULIP balderdash. Must be something truly askew about that quiz.
Come over to the dark side... ;-)
Mat 6
25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Matt 11
19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
22 But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.
Hmm, wonder who Jesus was referring to here.
That’s funny!
Ahhhhhhhhh.....so you think......
But I'm sure you're predestined for greater things. :O)
The easiest diet is simply to eat less.
And...for a rosy disposition, eat dark chocolates-the darker the better.
I always do before I look at the religious section. ;O)
BTW-I love that graphic.
Kale soup is delicious. We have a fairly good-sized population of Portuguese here in parts of Massachusetts, particularly in New Bedford and Fall River.
Don't tell anyone.
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