Another question on gluttony

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This sin is really hard to get to grips with. Could being o screens and devices to much be gluttony? And how much is to much?
 
Do you need this information to determine if your own actions are sinful? Or are you thinking of the actions of others?
 
My own mainly. I’m on my phone or computer or watching tv quite a lot
 
Fair enough. I don’t mean to be snarky, but many times folks on these websites seem more interested in the sins of others than their own. I didn’t want to jump to a conclusion. “Bless me father, for that guy over there has sinned.” sort of thing.
 
And in answer to your original question, I don’t know. I would presume that it isn’t that big of a deal unless it’s causing a person to ignore other more important responsibilities.
 
The “sin” of gluttony has always bothered me. It’s too easily applied personally or by others to overweight people. Being overweight is not a sin, we know that some people’s bodies will be larger than others. Shaming people for it is unacceptable as they likely have deeper issues or already blame themselves on many levels. What would be more helpful for us in the west is to understand our society’s over eating and shameful levels of food waste. There are people starving or poorly nourished all over the world.
 
I’d say that’s breaking one of the Ten Commandments-
People have made electronic gadgets - their god -
They love that god with all their mind and soul - too bad.

Gluttony is for for food.
Everyone knows that.
Don’t be a pig when eating -
But gadgets - that’s just your new god whom you devote hours and hours to each day.
 
I’ve read that gluttony isn’t always for food but thanks
 
Discern for yourself if it is sinful. Is it replacing God in any way? Is it taking away from family or other duties? You have to make the call.
 
Computer addiction or screen addiction would be a sin against temperance.

The Carmelites talk of spiritual gluttony where one is only interested in the pleasures of doing spiritual things, but that may only be an imperfection, unless one is neglecting their duties.

So in a sense overuse of the computer can be a form of gluttony in my opinion.

I sometimes think of one always being on a screen going against the first Commandment as a form of idolatry because we can put the pleasure of electronics before God.
 
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We combat vices with virtues.

Gluttony is a vice, one of the capital sins!

You overcome it with temperance.


From the Catechism:

1809 Temperance is the moral virtue that moderates the attraction of pleasures and provides balance in the use of created goods. It ensures the will’s mastery over instincts and keeps desires within the limits of what is honorable. The temperate person directs the sensitive appetites toward what is good and maintains a healthy discretion: “Do not follow your inclination and strength, walking according to the desires of your heart.” Temperance is often praised in the Old Testament: “Do not follow your base desires, but restrain your appetites.” In the New Testament it is called “moderation” or “sobriety.” We ought “to live sober, upright, and godly lives in this world.”

To live well is nothing other than to love God with all one’s heart, with all one’s soul and with all one’s efforts; from this it comes about that love is kept whole and uncorrupted (through temperance). No misfortune can disturb it (and this is fortitude). It obeys only [God] (and this is justice), and is careful in discerning things, so as not to be surprised by deceit or trickery (and this is prudence).

2290 The virtue of temperance disposes us to avoid every kind of excess: the abuse of food, alcohol, tobacco, or medicine. Those incur grave guilt who, by drunkenness or a love of speed, endanger their own and others’ safety on the road, at sea, or in the air.
 
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