Featured Is Eating at a Buffet a Sin?

I noticed that nobody has mentioned the church pot-luck yet.

 

first define what gluttony is. then we can proceed.

If getting a little buzz is drunkeness... then feeling a little full, and thinking you can fit desert in still, is definitely gluttonous, sinful behavior.

Food addiction is not a big deal in the same churches that don't allow "up front" service from smokers. (ushers, teachers, pianists, choir members, you name it).

 

We're Baptists. Church potlucks are sacrosanct. Can't touch 'em and they're not sinful.



Couldn't hit "Submit Reply" before I fell outta my chair ...

 

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I can't really enjoy a buffet because I get full quickly. Eating too much is a bigger risk at home, where snacking between meals is tempting.

 

I don't eat a buffets very often because there's no balance; you gain or lose something. I do have a favorite Chinese buffet that is $8.99 evenings and weekends and $7.49 for lunch. If I eat "healthy"-- salad, veggies, soup, fruit-- I don't get my $$$ worth--> loss. If I get the 'good stuff'-- fried rice, sesame chicken, fried biscuit, and dessert bar--> gain (weight and feeling 'down' for a couple of hours). If I try to stay 'middle ground' of salad, seafood, a little rice or noodles, light dessert--> loss; not what I would really like, so gain; stuffed myself with second choices.

BTW a few years ago, after church, I went alone to the 'Chinese' buffet and saw this guy who had visited our class already seated alone. I went by him to say hello, and he invited me to join him. He told me that he had lived in Hong Kong for a couple of years, and the food they served there is nothing like what's really Chinese, like broiled snake.

 

Chinese buffets are nasty, they use the cheapest food they can find. It tastes good temporarily because so much of it is fried, soaking in MSG, and things like that. Just horrible for you. And yes it is really nothing like real Chinese food. The Chinese aspect on a Chinese buffet is on the same level as thinking Federal Express is, well... "federal".

 

coming from a corndogggy??!!!

 

Agreed!!

I saw another post from the OP that said that the neighbors who dressed immodestly were the cause of sin (in so many words) showing a flawed theological base but this is typical in churches today. The cause of sin is others. :thumbsup:

No, I won't won't bother to look up the post. I've found than on this forum real proof means nothing as even a persons own words are not to be taken as evidence. I mean anything to be right! :tongue3:

As to buffets, our family has been invited to these after services and we have actually been rebuked for not gorging ourselves.

It's not the buffets, it's not the immodest apparel of neighbors, it's our own hearts that are sick.

 

Back in the day when my wife and I went to the Asian Buffet, I loved their fried biscuits. Sprinkled with just the right amount of sugar so that a few of them wouldn't astronomically increase my blood glucose levels. Their squid was surprisingly good too. One thing "chinese" buffets absolutely should not serve is pizza. The pizza at the place we went to was simply horrible. Probably some (very) cheap frozen pizza. Crust was soft/mushy and the taste definitely left something to be desired.

 

Eating at a buffet is not a sin. Eating the whole buffet, on the other hand.....

 

If you know so much about it, then which is nastier?-- a 'Chinese buffet' in the USA or the real Chinese food? And is what you say not true of most eateries? that the food is cheap and nasty and doctored to taste better, knowing that few patrons select their food on the basis of 'healthy?'

 

More correctly: "Did someone hold a weapon to your head and force you to read this thread? If not, then your complaints are even siller than this thread!"

"More sillier" is a silly way of puitting it. More absurd or more ridiculous would be okay though. You wouldn't say :"More funnier", would you?

Carry on rd2. Don't get angry by having a food fight!

 

No, you are the author of the thread. You wrote the OP, but you are not the OP. The OP is not a person. You are a person.

 

You are right

 

Good Lord.....:laugh: