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Today’s lesson is more of a question than a lesson, because I just can’t get it off my mind. Being back in the South, I am surrounded by

1. Obese people
2. Professed Christians

The thing that bothers me is how often these two groups intersect. It should be painfully obvious to anyone with even a passing understanding of the tenets of the Christian religion or of the Bible, that obesity is gluttony and gluttony is a sin. Supposedly Christians are not to let their appetites control them, but rather they are to have control over their appetites. See Deuteronomy 21:20, Proverbs 23:1-2, 2 Peter 1:5-7, Proverbs 23:20-21, and Proverbs 28:7.

So I suppose that today’s lesson is that hypocrisy is okay as long as it doesn’t leave the dinner table…