"I just want to be loved, is that so wrooong?"
Posted on 04/25/2014 6:34:01 AM PDT by Gamecock
Also, the ads on T.V. are SO helpful, aren’t they?
The difference is, even if you’re fat, you know gluttony is wrong.
Homosexuals don’t think that sodomy is wrong.
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....
I must disagree. They know it is wrong, but they are in rebellion against God. That is a large part of why they feel they must get affirmation of their habits from society. They won't get it from the one who really matters.
Maybe a few do honesty believe it’s wrong...but I think the “Pride” movement has done much to remove that stigma.
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.
I still say of all, Envy is the most deadly of all, it was the primary source of Communism, which killed over 100 million people last century.
Also Nazism was based on envy of the British Empire, and that Germany wanted her colonies as well.
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.
It boils down to this..do I ask for forgiveness, healing, or blessing for what I do?...
Many of us are gluttons- for punishment!
Ain’t that the truth!
In practical terms, gluttony takes several forms.
1) Those who overindulge in food and drink, seeking out the ill effects of that overindulgence. The gourmand and the drunkard.
2) Those who overindulge neurotically, who use food as a substitute for love, those who are sexually attracted to obesity, the anorexic and bulimic.
3) Those who equate food with elitism and superiority, consuming only the most expensive food and drink, even if it is of inferior taste. They may eat little, but they sit on a mountain of waste to provide them that.
4) The fully fledged glutton, whose life and time and devoted to gastronomic excess, to the exclusion of all else.
5) The “spiritual glutton”, described in my previous post.
It is rare to find one of the deadly sins in isolation from the others. The Democrat party seems to embrace all of them at once, however.
Yet each deadly sin has its own character, for example, greed is unique in that it knows no limit. Literally everything that is, and can be, is not enough to satisfy greed.
Most sinners don’t believe they ARE sinning.
And twas ever thus.
Bingo! I reject the premise, that christians are focusing on homosexuality. It has rarely even been mentioned in my 30 years sitting in a church. What is mentioned almost every week is that we are all sinners and in need of a savior. The left is using homosexuality to attack the church and only pays attention to christians when they elicit a response that can then be attacked as bigoted.
But What About Gluttony!?! Do Christians focus on homosexuality and ignore sins like gluttony?
Oh stop. No one likes a jerk.
No one including the Government is trying to redefine gluttony or force the society to accept it as okay.
The leftist political agenda has changed homosexuality from a mental illness to a really really cool thing... Now the push is on to force Christians to accept this sin as normal or be sued and marginalized in society.
***two guys holding hands***
I don’t even know what to say to this. I thought actual anal sex had something to do with this. I guess I was so wrong. All homosexuals want is a little bit of affection...no sex whatsoever. How silly of me.
"I just want to be loved, is that so wrooong?"
I don’t know about that. I’ve met more than one person who seems to believe that they simply can’t lose weight no matter how little they eat or how much they supposedly work out.
I really can’t care less what someone else thinks is wrong or not unless and until it directly effects me.
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