Posted on 07/14/2017 8:45:27 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
“Screw that!!!! Leave our food alone, dammit! !”
Hey, you can eat whatever “floats your boat!” But your eating habits will most likely catch up with you. I asked my boss at the time, when we were visiting a company facility in a backwater Texas town, why the women were beautiful and the men were fat and looked old. He said: “He thought that the women didn’t eat what they cooked for their men with the hope that they could have a second husband later in life!”
Personal choices are your own damn fault. This is as stupid and most liberal ideas.
If you don’t buy soda for your kids they seldom drink it.
I hope they also sue that Funny Face dude too
I like your tag comment. Why the chains.
Part of it is that we aren’t at perfection yet as believers, but simply being moved towards that final state as we live our earthly days.
And yet, there are measures that we can take that will increase the power of the joy of the Lord in ourselves. We’re SUCH happy campers on earth sometimes, that we are losing the vision to move on towards heaven. And therefore the Lord has to keep on presenting us with more chains to break as we go forward. But if we are growing, we will go from breaking little chains to breaking mighty chains.
“so many churches serve donuts etc, are these pastors gonna file about those?”
So many pastors, priests, etc. let their guts rest on their pulpits each and every Sunday too. They are not “living” their religion, they are eating it.
Also when people take “it takes a village” so literally that they just leave their kids to the village, they should not be shocked when the village teaches them harmful things.
Don’t curse the village. It’s being the village. Take your role under God as being a sober parent seriously.
That said, as a kid I could quaff sodas all I wished and was still a scrawny runt.
“Come to Me all you who are heavy laden, and I shall give you rest.”
No, sugar addiction is not just personal responsibility.
Sugar is EVERYWHERE. It is a killer.
There are hundreds of sugar eateries in your city.
Name just ONE social setting that is healthy??
No sugar. No booze. No salt.
No “get the hell out of here”, after your 5 minutes are up.
There AIN’T none. We are surrounded by illness.
Illness is always a relative thing.
We all have a fatal disease: we’re mortal.
If we could add years to our life through worrying stress but made those years hell, would we have gained health? Maybe we’d save on the physical doctors, but we’d spend on the psychiatrists.
Let’s not embrace, pun perhaps implicit in saying it at all, the fallacy of the excluded middle.
Some of the problem too is that we are eating and drinking too hastily. We squeeze our meals into the rush of trying to do more and more unsatisfying things in our lives. So the kinds of foods that are conducive to better physical health just get passed over. Who has time to sit down and enjoy some broccoli instead of feeling like a horse that has to scarf its food down before its turn at the feed bucket is over? Our daily bread, the staff of life, used to be robust, dense, whole wheat affair. But it wasn’t as readily grab-and-go as our modern white bread.
The problem isn’t Coke per se. It’s the manner of conducting our lives such that it gets a disproportionate role in them. We wouldn’t want so much Coke if we made time to enjoy the broccoli.
Finally some pastors speak out.
Nowhere in the Bible is Coke and sugary drinks mentioned. Wine, on the other hand, is mentioned many many times :) oh, and water. Wine tastes better though.
Now,let me find a scripture which gives pastors the right to sue companies...
“Pastors” should be in quotes.
I thought blacks drank Pepsi, grape soda or Sprite. I mean, since we’re making drinking soda a racial thing now.
Second hand tooth decay!
So blacks and hispanics have no personal choice, no will power to say no, and are incredibly unintelligent?
Tad racist on their part.
Guessing they really don’t see how they will be shredded in court.
I don’t want to be unsympathetic to the plight of habitual overeaters, but it seems pretty pathetic that these guys are “warring according to the flesh.” Good grief, pastors, haven’t you heard of the gospel?
Introduce people to the spirit of Jesus Christ, through whom many virtues including self control can be had, all for the sake of His love.
I don’t believe we want to stop with bare personal choice, will power, intelligence, and such abstruse concepts, as though they could self-animate towards some constructive end. They are but resources that can be put to use good or ill. The constructivity has to be found beyond them.
That’s my beef, such as it is, with what often calls itself conservatism. It has conserved the bathtub, but both the water AND the baby have been thrown out.
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