Daily Atheist Devotional #192 (Atheists are Fat Edition)
Atheism and obesity - Conserva(TARD)pedia
According to the Gallup Organization, "Very religious Americans are more likely to practice healthy behaviors than those who are moderately religious or nonreligious."[3]
The Gallup study gives some insight into the above average health habits of the very religious and not necessarily the health habits of atheists. The reason is that the Gallup organization defines a non-religious as a person where "Religion is not an important part of daily life and church/synagogue/mosque attendance occurs seldom or never. This group constitutes 29.7% of the adult population."[4] While many Western atheists are non-religious, not all non-religious people are atheists.
Gallup further declares:
| “ | Very religious Americans make healthier choices than their moderately religious and nonreligious counterparts across all four of the Healthy Behavior Index metrics, including smoking, healthy eating, and regular exercise. Smoking is one area of particular differentiation between the very religious and less religious Americans, with the nonreligious 85% more likely to be smokers than those who are very religious.[5] | Â" |
From a medical perspective, an obese person has accumulated enough body fat that it can have a negative effect on their health. If a person's weight is at least 20% higher than it should be, he/she is generally considered obese. If your Body Mass Index (BMI) is between 25 and 29.9 you are considered overweight. If your BMI is 30 or over you are considered obese.[6] The term obese can also used in a more general way to indicate someone who is overweight.[7]
Two of the major risk factors for becoming obese according to the Mayo Clinic are poor dietary choices and inactivity, thus given the above cited Gallup research, it appears as if non-religious are more prone to becoming obese than very religious individuals.[8] The Bible declares that gluttony is a sin.[9] Furthermore, the Bible declares the physical body of Christians to be temples of the Holy Spirit.[10] Therefore, it is not surprising that many very religious Christians would leave healthy lives.
Christianity is the world's largest religion and it has seen tremendous growth over its 2000 year history.[11] In the last fifty years, Christianity has recently seen explosive growth outside the Western World.[12][13][14][15] In 2000, there were twice as many non-Western Christians as Western Christians.[16] In 2005, there were four times as many non-Western Christians as there were Western Christians.[17] Of course, a big reason for the explosive growth of Christianity outside the Western world was due to highly religious people propagating the Christian faith and there are now more non-Western missionaries than Western missionaries.[18] Besides non-Westerners often being less sedentary, non-Western diets are often healthier than the diets Westerners consume and there is significantly less obesity in those non-Western cultures.[19][20][21] Therefore, in recent history Christendom has seen a large influx of very religious people who live healthy lifestyles and have low levels of obesity. For example, the noted Evangelical preacher Rick Warren recently made a public commitment to lose 90 pounds.[22] Have you seen any of the prominent atheists make such a pledge?Video of an overweight atheist activist Michael Nugent
Michael Nugent is chairperson of the atheist group Atheist Ireland[38]
Picture of an overweight Taslima Nasreen
The atheist Taslima Nasrin is an author who is known for her feminist and anti-Islamic views.[39][40] Ms. Nasreen has been divorced three times.[41] A picture of an overweight Taslima Nasreen can be found here: HERE
Matt Dillahunty Matt Dillahunty - host of atheist TV show
Picture of an overweight illusionist and comedian Penn Jillette
Penn Jillette (born 1955) is an American illusionist, comedian, juggler, musician and writer. Penn Jillette is an atheist.[42] 
Nate Phelps
Photo of an overweight Steve Wozniak (atheist/agnostic)
Steve Wozniak - co-founder of Apple Computer.[45] Wozniak wrote: "I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference)."[46]
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov was an American author, biochemistry professor st Boston University and an atheist . A picture of an overweight Isaac Asimov can be found HERE.
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong was a Chinese communist leader.
Mao Zedong Kim Jong-il
Kim Jong-il is an overweight atheist North Korean communist dictator.[47]
Mikhail Gorbachev
Leonid Brezhnev
Leonid Brezhnev was a communist dictator in the former Soviet Union and a picture of an overweight Leonid Brezhnev can be found HERE and HERE
Georgy Malenkov
Georgy Malenkov - Soviet Union politician[50]
George Melly
Song writer and singer George Melly was an atheist.[51] A picture of an overweight George Melly smoking a cigarette can be found HERE.
Picture of an overweight atheist writer Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy, CBE,(born 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright. Carol Ann Duffy is an atheist.[52] A picture of an overweight Ms. Duffy can be found HERE
Overweight atheist origin of life researcher Aleksandr Oparin Picture of an overweight atheist economist Walter Block
Walter Block is an atheist economist. A picture of an overweight Walter Block can be found HERE.
Atheist author Sir Kingsley William Amis
Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English writer, critic and teacher. Amis was also an atheist.[53] Kingsley Amis was a serial adulterer and drunkard.[54] Sir Kingsley Amis wrote in a memoir: "Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time".[55] A picture of an overweight Sir Kingsley Amis can be found HERE
Atheist origin of life researcher Aleksandr Oparin
A picture of overweight atheist origin of life researcher Aleksandr Oparin can be found HERE.
Feminist and atheist Rosika Schwimmer
Rosika Schwimmer (1877–1948) was a Hungarian-born feminist and pacifist. Rosika Schwimmer was an atheist.[56] A picture of an overweight Rosika Schwimmer can be found HERE
Marquis de Sade experienced grotesque obesity during his life
The perverse and cruel atheist Marquis de Sade experienced grotesque obesity during his life.[57]
Paul-Henri Thiry Paul-Henri Thiry
Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach (1723 - 1789) was an early advocate of atheism in Europe and he was overweight. Artwork of an overweight Paul-Henri Thiry can be found HERE
Lesbianism, atheism and obesity
The Bible declares lesbianism to be a sin (Romans 1:27) and lesbians have significantly higher rates of obesity.[58] Since the Bible declares gluttony and lesbianism to be sins, no doubt there are obese people and/or lesbians *****ject Christianity and decide to become atheists rather than repent and become Christians.
Evolutionists who have had problems with being overweight and/or obese
See also: Professor PZ Myers fails applied biology
Since World War II a majority of the most prominent and vocal defenders of the evolutionary position which employs methodological naturalism have been atheists.[59]
A list of evolutionists who who have had problems with being overweight and/or obese can be found here:
Evolutionists who have had problems with being overweight and/or obese
Atheism, obesity and self-esteem
See also: Atheism and self-esteem
There are preliminary studies indicating that individuals *****ject Christianity in Western cultures have lower self-esteem than the Christian population.[60][61] In addition, obese individuals can have lower self-esteem related to their obesity.[62] In the United States, obese people are often stereotyped as being "lazy, lacking self-discipline and being mentally slow".[63] Poor self-esteem has been linked to an increase in suicide attempts and atheists have higher rates of suicide than the general population.[64][65][66]
El toro poo poo.
If that's the case, why did Holy Girl have to have gastric bypass? Most of the Wiccans in this area are the skinny ones. Not Christianity. Maybe dancing naked in the moonlight makes them think twice?
Are vegans more Christian than meat eaters.
What other either/or's did they study on?
Use this article for manure on your tomatoes.
Or ANYTHING from conservapedia for that matter!
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Conservapedia is actually useful when arguing with various strains of religious fundamentalist, in ascertaining just what on earth they claim to think themselves. Of course, religious fundamentalists don't think themselves. They let their religious leaders think for them. Note that Wikipedia is also surprisingly detailed in delineating the various strains of creationist thought, should you wish to survey the rabbit hole before diving in head first.
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This results in a disproportionate coverage of specialist subjects such as Japanese culture (thanks to JessicaT)[26] and Middle-earth (thanks to Tolkiendil),[27] a morbidly repetitive treatment of subjects such as atheism[28] and homosexuality[29] (largely the work of sysop Conservative), and many anti-liberal diatribes by Aschlafly himself.[30] Meanwhile coverage of more common and academic subjects is confined to either useless stub articles, or plagiarized text pasted from other source, along with a few articles or projects which have been started but obviously left unfinished and probably unnoticed.[31]
Proof WalMart sizes run SMALL:
She has some nice tats but so do I and I didn't show them off like this when I was fat. I still don't like to "show off" my body, but I am more likely to wear clothes that fit.
Think of this lady and don't judge, I hated when people judged me.
on 1/17/11 2:22 am - Switzerland
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