“Don’t drink that! You might get drunk!! Don’t smoke that! Know ye NOT that your body a ha, is the temple, a ha, of the Hoooooollllyyyyyy Ghhosttt?!?”
….three hours later….
“Yes I’ll take the 18 ounce porter house, rare, mashed potatoes with extra gravy, and an extra sweetened ice tea. Oh and also the loaded bacon cheese fries as an appetizer, thank you.”
It seems they’ve given our most addictive vice a free pass…
The irony of all of this is the logic stretching and ignoring of scripture.
They’ll preach against alcohol outright when the bible only speaks against drunkenness, with the logic being that drinking at all leads to drunkenness and since they all know that Christians can’t do anything in moderation they have to ban it altogether.
They preach against smoking, which isn’t even in the bible, though they were definitely smoking in that time, and the logic they use, (albeit good logic), is that our body is the temple of God and a gift and they should honor it and not defile it. Makes sense.
They forbid tattooing with little scriptural support (inapplicable Levitical law), on the basis that it is harmful to our bodies, but uuuuhhh… Starting to see the inconsistencies?
They have to stretch scripture, use loose semantics and hyperbole to draw these conclusions, but what about this:
Proverbs 23:2
“and put a knife to your throat if you are given to gluttony.”
And this:
Proverbs 23:20-21
"Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the GLUTTON shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags."
And then there’s all that moderation and self control stuff Paul is always talking about...
There’s not really a point to all of this, just trying to call attention to a humorous hypocrisy. The fast track to being seated from your ministries would be to walk into Applebee’s and order a Corona with lime, but you can eat a 1,400 calorie meal and chase it down with a maple butter blondie and brother I appreciate your ministry!
Those overweight preachers don’t have a glandular problem or a low thyroid. They’re addicts, just like any other addict, and they need help, just like the alcoholic, and should have some accountability.
But this phenomenon isn’t isolated to preachers. Their pews are about a Big Buford and large fry away from needing steel reinforcement. And if it weren’t for Pentecostal women, Lane Bryant would have gone out of business twenty years ago. And the men don’t exactly have LL Cool J’s abs either. Thank God for adjustable waistband pants or they’d be at church in their windbreaker pants and a size 54L blazer!
It just bothers the hell out of me that not only is the obesity given a pass, the men are EXALTED!
When Billy Cole died my friend commented "Well, all addicts gotta go sometime." How true is that? They're addicts. They are just as addicted to their steaks and burgers and desserts as Whitney was to the pipe. It's not just bothersome that they get a pass from the people they preach to, but their PEERS do nothing! This is an epidemic! How can they preach about moderation and then clean out the dessert cart?
I'm sorry, I'm just ranting. It's just sad.
