Weight question

[EasterJoy]

To me, the best solution for all this for EVERY person to make the effort to not be FAT, and not be too THIN. If you take care of that, you will look good enough to find and keep a decent mate. Really, the major problem in the USA is fat. No one likes to look at fat people. That’s just a fact.

But, since we are all fully capable of getting the fat off, in a matter of months, no one should complain if others reject them for being overweight. We should just all handle this as a natural course of things.

That’s what I think. To me, this is the most charitable solution there is. If you want to practice the Christian principle of “love thy neighbor as thyself,” then make the effort to no present your neighbor with an overweight body to look at. Right? Logical, right?

Neither God nor Nature forces anyone to remain fat.

No one would think of going out in public with smelly clothes that have not been washed in weeks, right? (except for the homeless, I guess). Why not? Because it is RUDE.

Then why is it not rude to continuously go out in public with an overweight body? I’m just asking. There is a certain logic to this, right?

Overweight people get rejected and insulted. They then tend to feel sorry for themselves, and blame other people for being intolerant and unloving. But what about their own personal responsibility to be presentable and nice looking as possible to others?

I call this the “Duty to Beauty.”

I think we all have a moral duty to be as beautiful in possible, in our physical bodies, in our speech, in our conduct.

You think the charitable response when people are insulted and rejected is to lecture them about how they deserve rude treatment because their looks aren’t pleasing enough to you? Really?

No, it is not true that we have “a duty to beauty”. There is no such thing in the Christian faith. We are commanded to love one another. While love includes truthfulness, love is defined as being patient, kind, not jealous, not pompous, not inflated, and not rude. Love does not seek its own interests. Love does not think it is entitled to surround itself with people whom one finds beautiful.

We are actually encouraged to be modest in our self-adornment, for instance: “Your adornment should not be an external one: braiding the hair, wearing gold jewelry, or dressing in fine clothes, but rather the hidden character of the heart, expressed in the imperishable beauty of a gentle and calm disposition, which is precious in the sight of God.” 1 Pet. 3:3-5 St. Paul said similar things. We should also avoid presenting ourselves to others in a way intended to inspire envy or to solicit better treatment for ourselves, such as to avoid rejection or insult because we do not conform to the secular norms of beauty.

Besides, I don’t think I’m alone in saying that I’d rather surround myself with people who could look better than with people who need to learn to keep their unsolicited and uninformed opinions to themselves.

 

[Nec5]

I feel compelled to point out to all those who insist these people lose weight to be beautiful that:

1. There are many many people who have lost weight (or who never had it in the first place), but they are still/remain ugly.
2. Weight does not necessarily indicate beauty or attraction although it certainly can. Some of my friends are very attracted to people that I would consider “fat”. That’s not a moral issue.

Not that all of my evil response material is out of the way, I agree with the other posters that we really should be focused on things other than appearances unless it’s a health issue. Half of the New Testament is either Christ or one of the apostles admonishing people/us to quit judging by appearances, and to judge justly through righteousness and based on actions.