Posted on 04/25/2014 6:34:01 AM PDT by Gamecock
It bears repeating, the reason Christians are talking about homosexuality is because everyone else is talking about homosexuality. Strange coincidence that evangelicals did not become “obsessed” with homosexuality until about 40-50 years ago when the culture became obsessed with sexual freedom. If the Supreme Court finds a constitutional right to jab people in the kidneys with poison-tipped spears, we’ll get worked about that too.
Well as to gluttony a lot of weight issues are related to the types of diets people have not gluttony.
IF people followed something like a Paleo diet rather than a diet full of Corn syrup in everything + tons of carbs problem gone.
Misdirection is a favorite tactic of the homosexual lobby. “How can you be against marriage rights when you ignore jaywalking? Hypocrite!”
How should Christians think about these claims? Well, the operative word in that question is “think.” We can’t settle for gotcha headlines and arguments that are more slogan than substance. We have to be open to reason, open our Bibles, and think this through.
"The ads, set to run in major newspapers beginning Thursday, show smiling, overweight Caucasian families walking into Southern Baptist churches. The SBC hopes to attract more smiling, overweight Caucasian families."
-- from the thread Southern Baptists launch pre-emptive strikes against Assemblies of God
Whenever I hear a priest give, yet another Homily, on greed with the usual rhetoric of economic justice along with fair wages, I ask them after Mass if envy and coveting are also sins. .
I never get an answer from the priest.
The issue is that Homosexuals don’t believe they are sinning.
A person who is 500 pounds, probably realizes that what they are is not ideal, even if they feel they can’t help themselves.
If they start enforcing sloth then there are some days where I'm doomed to hell.
Besides--there is only one sin. Everything else is just symptomatic.
Furthermore, if the gay agenda is right, then by definition the Bible must be wrong, and with it goes the whole foundation of Christianity.
And that’s why the Atheist Left has seized upon the Gay agenda with so much vigor.
Why does only one of the deadly sins have parades named after it?
If you’ve got a gut bigger than your chest, you’re probably a glutton. Maybe that isn’t true for severely disabled folks but fat is disgusting, it indicates lack of self discipline and disrespecting the body the Lord gave you.
The body doesn’t lie. It might offer you all sorts of temptations, but no one has ever had a gun held to their head to supersize those fries or have that milkshake.
I’m going to work on the beam in my own eye before I worry about the mote in someone else’s. But then I’m a selfish bastard in my own way - two guys holding hands is much like being in a car race and watching two competitors crash into each other; as to their final disposition in the afterlife who am I to know who repents in time?
Oh look - a SQUIRREL!!!
See, I can do misdirection too!
Gluttony is not “fat”.
Gluttony is eating to glut, and purging and eating to glut, etc., etc.
Being fat is not a sin. It isn’t wise, but it isn’t sinful. Otherwise, Samoans are guilty not just of their sinful nature but also of their phyical attributes.
Nonsense!
Here’s your “diet”:
Quit stuffing your face and get off of your butt!
The “type” of food you eat may affect your health and make it harder to take off that last 20 lbs., but QUANTITY and INACTIVITY is what makes you fat.
Precisely. This screed is a naked ploy to belittle moral opposition to homosexuality. It is nonsense.
Unless he is willing to admit that homosexuality is a type of gluttony he has no rationale other than his own confused sexuality.
I always wondered about working on Sunday (or Saturday, for purists). God did not say, “These commandments are more important than those.”
So, is working on Sunday as bad as adultery?
The reason we’re talking about homosexuality is because 3 percent of the population demands that they be in our face in every media, in every sport, in every voluntary association. The biblical nature of this conflict is secondary.
When I do a and b the weight comes off.
When I do only one of them the weight doesn't.
When I do neither, I gain weight.
It may be simple but it's not easy.
Chomp, chomp.
Disagree, for the reason I stated above. It is literally at the core of the attack on Judeo-Christian Society.
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