From my interpretation of scripture, I could believe that those who die fat go to hell?
Would it be Godly for me to put this on a sign and protest in front of McDonalds?
From a literal interpretation of scripture, I could believe that those who are bankrupt or those that neglected paying back credict card debt or student loans are going to hell for stealing..if they die without ever repaying that money.
Again, should I put that on a sign and protest in front of a bankruptcy court?
Would you support a church where the pastor called fat people an abomination, or called a bankrupt person the scum of the earth?
As a gay man, I hear pastors/fundies use such language, and have seen them hold such signs as it relates to the homosexual.
So, the question is…why are you justified to use such rhetoric over interpretation of scripture as it relates to homosexuals…but, it would be disrespectful to use such language in relating to other sins based on interpretation of scripture?
Our fast food nation encourages gluttonous sinning..our lax bankruptcy laws allows
people to steal from corporations…
These things are big sins our world…and are encouraged every day…so, why not the public outcry?
Could it be that would be unpopular…and obesity and bankruptcy affects a larger percentage of people…so, fundies are afraid of alienating monetary contributors?
November 14th, 2008 at 9:05 am
C’mon, admit it: You just hate fat people.
November 17th, 2008 at 3:38 am
o please, fat people are never called abominations
but people who eat shellfish are, and people who wear clothing of mixed fabric.
now that’s were you have to protest, the docks and the clothing stores.
November 18th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Fat does not always equal gluttony
Obese does not always equal gluttony
Your definitions are way to generalized.
Glutton:
(Deut. 21:20), Heb. zolel, from a word meaning “to shake out,” “to squander;” and hence one who is prodigal, who wastes his means by indulgence. In Prov. 23:21, the word means debauchees or wasters of their own body. In Prov. 28:7, the word (pl.) is rendered Authorized Version “riotous men;” Revised Version, “gluttonous.” Matt. 11:19, Luke 7:34, Greek phagos, given to eating, gluttonous.
November 21st, 2008 at 3:26 pm
well, obesity is more widespread than homosexuality. and as u said, fast food is encouraged here. so u know putting something up against obesity…probably woudln’t work.
November 23rd, 2008 at 3:25 pm
The greatest commandment that God has given us is to love one another and people who treat others like that , have to explain their actions to God on the day of judgment.
November 25th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…you are not supposed to talk about that or about eaters of swines flesh or about liars or any of those other abominations.
November 27th, 2008 at 9:30 am
I think it is because fundies don’t fall temptation to being gay if they were born straight. So it is an easy sin to demonize and get on the band wagon about because most fundies aren’t really subject to that one. Anyone can be glutinous or bankrupt- you aren’t born with those qualities.
November 27th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Ecclesiastes 9: 5:For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten
Ecclesiastes 9:10: All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in She?ol, the place to which you are going.
November 30th, 2008 at 1:25 am
Another thing to consider would be guilty of judgment, thou shalt not judge