CNN: Faith-based dieting....

[PCIntern]

They just had this segment on where all these moonie-like folk are extolling the virtues of prayer and dieting with concomitant life-saving weight loss. This segment saeems to go on forever...I know I know, just turn it off...but I'm waiting for faith-based model railroad or stamp collecting:

"I was praying for that exploding boxcar rocket to become available and Lo! I went to Church, affirmed my faith in Jesus, and within a week, I found it on eBay. Hallelujah!"

they should have such an in-depth study of Presidential Prevarication

[C_U_L8R]

1. How about Faith Based Regime Change

I pray that Bush and Cheney get impeached and thrown in jail

[KitchenWitch]

2. SNAP!

Good zinger!

[mduffy31]

3. What t he fuck is a matter with people?

God won't make you thin. Unless you fast for him.

[Glorfindel]

8. The God-obsessed are no worse than the media-obsessed DU'ers...

Have you noticed that 90% of discussions here lately are about TV, TV news, books about TV news, etc.? I haven't watched TV in more than 20 years, and the more I read about it on DU, the less I regret my decision. Before we poke fun at people's pathetic superstitions, maybe we should examine our own obsessions.

[mduffy31]

12. I have also noticed that

...anyone that is considered "friendly" like Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert etc. has the temerity to make fun of a Dem you can count on someone here at DU starting a thread like WTF is his problem? People need to relax.

[rpannier]

4. I remember when I was a kid

(in the70's) they had a group that used prayer to aid in weight loss. One of the women they interviewed claimed that through prayer God would tell them what to eat for each meal. When the reporter asked them, "What if Hed tells you to have ___________ (it was something fattening I don't remember what)." she said, "Oh, that would come from Satan so we'd pray some more."

I thought, why not just pick healthy foods without the prayer. It's gonna be the same result.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

5. I tried it 20 years ago

and it didn't work any better than, um...diet and exercise. Actually, not quite as well.

I do have a book called "meditation for weight loss" which is nifty and I read it when I really should be taking a walk, which is NOT so nifty.

T-Grannie

[Ian David]

6. They're praying for lower gas prices and for The DaVinci Code to fail

I shit you not!

[HereSince1628]

7. The religious right is against all model trains except American Flyer

The see HO guage as part of the war on Christmas. You see it's the first part of that evil Ho Ho Ho and who can't agree that a child looking forward to a train running around the tree has his attention diverted from the real meaning of Xma$.

[gulliver]

9. Faith and dieting are two great products.

High appeal. No inventory. And if they fail, consumers blame themselves.

[highplainsdem]

10. What's next? Faith-based regularity?

You just know a lot of fundies have to be constipated...


By the way, I am not opposed to religious faith, just its misuse and trivialization by authoritarians. Which people who think they need Jesus to help them lose weight really are.

If that's the same news story I'm recalling, there was something in it about the possible psychological risk to those poor deluded people if their diets fail and they wonder if they've failed God, too.

[spanone]

11. What a stoooopid nation we are.