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Re: Please help me with this. Being Obese and being a drunk why are they not the same?

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Rev. Drawin

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Date Posted: 01:04:02 04/13/06 Thu
In reply to: Steve 's message, "Re: Please help me with this. Being Obese and being a drunk why are they not the same?" on 12:01:21 04/12/06 Wed

There must have been some misunderstanding where you got I hate fat people I don't hate anyone It was a broad observation on the many people I see on TBN or know personally I know all about diabetes and anarexia and the many other eating disorders . It was just something that is running wild in our churches. I have heard even friends of mine who are overweight and and they have said it is excepted more than other sins . It just seems to me that the sin of gluttony is so excepted and allowed and even made to be a joke at after church lunch. This is a certain thing that goes on and thats why I brought it up it wasn't a witch hunt on everweight people I worked with overweight people for 15yrs. The bottom line is this I listened to 15yrs. of excuses of why people get obese, and the bottom line is over feeding is the cause. It doesn't matter how out of balance you thyroid gland is (it can't) produce fat only calories can produce fat. And that wasn't my point it was simply this. Why does the 9th fruit of the spirit only apply to drugs or beer or wine ect. I never judged anyone in my years as a personal fitness instructor I know the battle is very very very hard I spent 15yrs. of my life in study to combat that problem in other peoples life and my own. It wasn't a question or personal attack on anyone. I just can't understand why one lack of self control is so tolerated and the other is looked upon as( a sin that leads to death.) See, now most of my time is spent on preaching the message of deliverance from drugs and alcohol to people and what I can't understand is how the majority of the church looks down on those people with such contempt while those people who sit in judgment on those caught in addiction to ( other than food) look me in the eye and say those people (ie) addicts are some how still lost in their sin, while these people who look down on them clearly have a problem with over eating and continue to make excuses for their own personal sin of the flesh. I really didn't mean to offend you at all, in my defense I have been taught by some of the greatest minds in fitness and nutrition and have been certified by 3 nationally recognized schools of fitness, So I have heard all the (so called) reasons why people become overweight but that really wasn't even my point I just wanted to know simply why one thing is so looked down on and the other is so excepted and praised by people that in a nut shell was it. I hope I didn't hurt you in any way Steve and just to let you know I am not what you would call skinny I am 6'5 265lbs and its no longer hard firm muscle if you know what I mean ha ha. If I touched a nerve I am sorry that wasn't my intent at all. It reall just boggles my mind thats all. Talk to you later Darwin

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