As a young pastor I first heard the joke as to why so many pastors are overweight. “It’s because we have outlawed everything else!” The meaning of this was clear. We were not supposed to drink, dance, smoke, play cards, etc, so food was the only place to “let things go,” so to speak. The fact is that very attitude reveals an idolatry we are loathe to admit: the worship of food revealed in the sin of gluttony. Gluttony is not merely about the amount of food we eat; it is about our attitude toward food. Thin people who submit to the siren’s song at the buffet can be just as guilty of gluttony as a morbidly obese person who polishes off a half-gallon of Blue Bell after dinner every night. Genetic predisposition to thermonuclear caloric burn rates does not allow for wriggling off sin’s baited hook.