on Christian Obesity
October 3, 2007 – 12:51 pm
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According to a recent study by Krista M. C. Cline and Kenneth F. Ferraro of Purdue University, Christians tend to overeat. Jared Binder of the Dallas Observer, observes:
“There’s this thing in the Bible called gluttony. The Bible says it’s a sin. But we don’t like to talk about that particular sin. We prefer to point a pudgy finger at others and decry the evils of drugs and alcohol, pornography, abortion and homosexuality. Compared to those, gluttony is just a little sin.”
and:
“So why aren’t more pastors and churches talking about it? One reason is pretty obvious. We don’t want to risk losing church members by offending anyone.”
Honestly, the obesity problem is well known to be an American epidemic. The salient point of this study is that Christians in particular have an acute need for reducing the use of food as an indulgence to replace the indulgences reduced or eliminated in other areas of our lives.
