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?
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.
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.
Also, the ads on T.V. are SO helpful, aren’t they?
Suppose Christians start talking about obesity. Well, the poor tend to be obese to a much greater degree than the middle class or well off. And the poor tend to be disproportionately black or Hispanic. What do you think the liberals will do then? That’s right!
“CHRISTIAN OBSESSION WITH WEIGHT IS JUST A MASK FOR THEIR RACISM!!!”
Liberals are so predictable....
Nothin’ worse than a big fat ole homo.
(from The Catholic Encyclopedia, with minor edits)
Gluttony (From Lat. gluttire, to swallow, to gulp down), the excessive indulgence in food and drink.
The moral deformity discernible in this vice lies in its defiance of the order postulated by reason, which prescribes necessity as the measure of indulgence in eating and drinking.
This deordination may happen in five ways which are set forth in the scholastic verse: too soon, too expensively, too much, too eagerly, too daintily.
Clearly one who uses food or drink in such a way as to injure his health or impair their mental equipment is guilty of the sin of gluttony.
To eat or drink for the mere pleasure of the experience, and for that exclusively, is likewise to commit the sin of gluttony.
Gluttony is in general a venial sin in so far forth as it is an undue indulgence in a thing which is in itself neither good nor bad.
Of course it is obvious that a different estimate would have to be given of one so wedded to the pleasures of the table as to absolutely and without qualification live merely to eat and drink, so minded as to be of the number of those, described by the Apostle St. Paul, “whose god is their belly” (Philippians 3:19).
Such a one would be guilty of mortal sin.
“Spiritual gluttony” is the disposition of those who, in prayer and other acts of religion, are always in search of sensible sweetness; they are those who “will feel and taste God, as if he were palpable and accessible to them not only in Communion but in all their other acts of devotion.”
This is a very great imperfection and productive of great evils.
Yeah, I think the point when fat people preach over-eating in public schools as “normal, healthy, and beautiful” would be where we would get a lot more vocal over it.