Thread by @AmandaMBeck

Our understanding of gluttony needs to change so that it is aligned w/ 1st & 2nd commandments, love God & love neighbor as self.

Gluttony isn’t eating ‘too many’ potato chips while binging Netflix. @jnicolemorgan defines gluttony as consumption that harms our neighbor.

It’s so much bigger than what you had for dinner or a midnight snack. We have to frame it around neighbor care.

For example, by consuming strawberries, am I participating in a system that mistreats & underpays migrant fruit workers?
Yes. The answer isn’t to stop eating strawberries altogether. It means advocating for justice for the worker—fair & equitable treatment, a living wage, etc.

Gluttony is a corporate & institutionalized sin, not so much individualized one. (Unless you are eating your neighbor’s food such that they cannot eat themselves.)

Gluttony is consumption that harms our neighbor.

-J. Nicole Morgan
@jnicolemorgan

If Nicole’s definition is true (which is what I propose), gluttony is not:
Eating “too much” in one sitting
Being or getting fat
Bingeing in secret
Eating dessert at every meal
Longing for an “off-limits” food

If you need assurance from a thin person that all those things are natural responses of your body to food, not sin…check out Julie Duffy Dillon’s Love, Food podcast.

If you’ll take a fat person’s experience, check out the @fatandfaithful podcast, read Fat & Faithful by J. Nicole Morgan, & read my book, Lovely: How I Learned to Embrace the Body God Gave Me.

Also, my Instagram:
Instagram.com/your_body_is_g…

Oh, re: “my body is a temple”—ok. Temples just have to exist; they don’t have to lose weight. You are not a fixer upper, no matter what the trolls on frozen say. And before you say, “I want to have a healthy body so I can serve God the best I can,”—

That is ableist. People in all sizes, shapes, abilities, orientations, ethnicities can serve God, no matter what their body is like.

A body is good when it fulfills its purpose, & its purpose is relationship w/ God, self, & others.

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