The lengths that people will go to, just to lose weight, never cease to amaze me, but this method may take the cake.
Recently I have been hearing a lot about the Remnant Fellowship Church in Franklin, Tennessee. This church preaches about God and weight loss in the Weigh Down Diet program. Amazingly enough, Weigh Down is the most successful Christian weight loss program in the country, which has many people flocking to Gwen Shamblin (pictured), the leader of Remnant, like fixated moths to a bright light.
The basics of the Remnant Fellowship are this: overeating is a sin. Her book The Weigh Down Diet, which has sold over a million copies worldwide stresses the benefits of eating tiny bites and objects to exercising to offset your caloric intake. The scare tactics and shame methods keep followers in line by telling them overeating will result in hell.
The best part. Remnant does not allow theological debate, and free will is basically out the door. Shamblin directs those with questions to her 800 number.
My take on this whole thing: The best way to lose weight from the Weigh Down Diet is by running (very, very fast) in the opposite direction of the Remnant Fellowship. This diet is cult-like and unhealthy, not only for the body but for the mind as well. I am all for a support group when trying to get fit, but not a support group that tells you it's either weight loss or hell. Shamblin is making millions while her followers are contemplating suicide, that's just not right.
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i don't like this at all. i'm sure God wants you to respect your body (after all, He took the time to make it ~ millions of years went into the making of modern homo sapiens) but He most certainly wouldn't want you to hate yourself!
it makes me sad to see people take advantage of
others' faith and desperation to lose weight like this.
1lol, now this is why I don't have a religion. Not to offend anyone, but the 'Church' is a joke. People should just concentrate on being good people and treating each other with respect, instead of being trapped by a corrupt organisation.
2Any church that tries to MAKE you follow them or tells you it's their way or hell is not one I would belong to. But I do think it's offensive to say that churches in general are jokes. Churches are a place for people with similar beliefs to gather, converse, and support each other.
Being a Christian in my eyes is all about doing what's right - what's best for EVERYONE. Respecting other people, helping out less fortunate. Churches are probably the number one resource that fuels charities. WITHOUT churches, the world would be a corrupt place - to call every church a corrupt organization is just WRONG.
That's fine for you to be Godless - if you don't feel lost without Him, that's your life. But I don't call your beliefs or wherever you might go to find comradery and support a joke.
3its not the church its the people who run it. theyre called false profits.
4Does anyone else think that the chick that runs it is totally creepy looking?! She could use a hamburger or two. I can't believe that she tries to control people like that, ugh. Just try and be happy with yourself, don't turn to crazy boney cult leaders!
5If being overweight is a sin, then having a crappy fake bake tan and a fried outdated hairdo must be too. The lady needs to check the plank in her eye then actually read the book.
6what if their weight were due to genetics? "hell" and "fat" genes are linked?
7I know no one will probably ever read this because it is an old post, but I just have to...
false prophets.
8What about these scriptures:
All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship (Psalms 22:29, KJV)
Let your soul delight itself in FATNESS (Isa.55:2)
Eat the fat and drink the sweet (Nehemiah 8:10).
I think God is quicker to condemn a heart bloated with pride in good looks than He is to send a Twinkie junkie to hell.
Here is an excerpt of a poem posted on my site:
http://banpreachergreed.tripod.com
Something's the matter with that fat pastor
He's big as a whale and this fast won't help
He'd sell his soul for a seafood platter
His lard will fuel the fires of hell.
I caught him with a bucket of chicken
He swore he'd picked it up for his kids
He always hangs around the church kitchen
Throughout this fast he's sneaked tidbits.
That Twinkie junkie is worse than Lenore
9He pops diet pills and vacuums food in
That pastor's not fit to serve the Lord
That man is a walking mountain of sin!
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conclusion: I think people who eat are a little less grumpy than those who starve themselves.
i dont want fat people to go to hell they should deserve to go to hevan not hell
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