So many people either make a huge meal or go to these all you can eat buffets on religous holidays, after church and eat till they are stuffed and then what they don't eat and is left on their plates go to waste.
2006-07-07 03:27:30 · 20 answers · asked by Helnight20 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sorry, did you answer your own question there?
It's just an over indulgance of anything, not just food. It's eating for the sake of eating, not sustanence.
2006-07-07 03:30:05 · answer #1 · answered by Ian M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gluttony is the over-indulgence and over-consumption of food, drink, or intoxicants to the point of waste. In the Christian religions, it is considered one of the seven deadly sins -- a misplaced desire of food or its withholding from the needy.
Depending on the culture, it can be seen as either a vice or a sign of status. The relative affluence of the society can affect this view both ways. A wealthy group might take pride in the security of having enough food to eat to show it off, but it could also result in a moral backlash when confronted with the reality of those less fortunate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluttony
2006-07-07 03:31:41 · answer #2 · answered by Jim Darwin's Adversary 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gluttony is the obsession with over indulgence of self! All sin can be traced to selfishness and pride.
Moderation on the other hand allows for each person to enjoy the world and all it creation. Huge meals, festivals, communal celebrations are all good and necessary activities. Done in moderation people appreciate the goodness of community, done excessively people will take for granted the blessings of food, and fellowship. In all things moderation.
2006-07-07 03:35:25 · answer #3 · answered by Lives7 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gluttony really refers to overdoing anything. Dependency on food, cigarettes, drugs, alcohol, gambling, even caffeine - anything - is gluttony. It is a sin for a good reason: these things keep our minds occupied on whatever our particular favorite is - and off of God.
No problem with the buffet once in a while - that's not like overeating every day, and thinking of nothing but food.
2006-07-07 03:33:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gluttony refers to more than just food. Gluttony is a sin because it encourages excess of something (which is never good) and usually excess at the expense of those without. We are encouraged to share the gifts of this world with one another, not hoarde everything for ourselves.
It also goes hand in hand with the virtue of temperance, which is moderation in all things.
2006-07-07 03:30:23 · answer #5 · answered by Robin J. Sky 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gluttony is a deadly sin because you don't need that food,your kinda wasting food,that Africans would love to eat.
2006-07-07 03:30:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My husband still is freaked out by recalling Church Buffets where people made total pigs of themselves...
Gluttony is a sin because it is very similar to greed... its just wrong for one person to consume more than others... food or clothes, or whatever... its just wrong to rape our planet for personal wants and cravings
2006-07-07 03:31:16 · answer #7 · answered by CF_ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-14 05:18:01 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with your assessment of the buffet eaters but what does it have to do with your sin question. By the way my Catholic Mom used to say that this sin was only for priests as they were always invited to people's homes and would eat everything in sight. Our priest had gout...enough said.
2006-07-07 03:31:28 · answer #9 · answered by antiekmama 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are several reasons that gluttony is a sin, one because it is a form of intoxication to release your tension, it also effects your health, it is a waste of food, it shows that you are greedy.
2006-07-07 03:32:11 · answer #10 · answered by sajid_icfai 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋