How did I miss this? It’s a 3 years out-of-date news item on the BBC website’s health section.
Americans look to Jesus for a diet
Five loaves, two fish and a goblet of red wine could be on the menu for Americans if a new diet takes off
(Sorry, Americans, but this is the sort of thing we’re told is normal for you. Just when we’re feeling bad about the xenophobic national stereotyping, some of you go and vote Huckabee back into the running.)
Don Colbert, a Florida doctor, published a diet book that is based on the food in the Bible.
He says: “If you truly want to follow Jesus in every area of your life you cannot ignore your eating habits.”
Well, if there are any over-enthusiastic fundamentalists reading this, it seems to mean that you should stick to kosher foods and just eat bread, fish and lentils.
In anorexically small portions, if you only get a five-thousandth share of five loaves and a couple of fishes. Now that is one harsh diet.
Still, at least you can replace all your water with wine. There’s always an upside.
Aw, c’mon. Everyone knows Jesus was bulimic and anorexic. All those years he disappeared he was at an institution for kids with eating problems. He couldn’t handle the fact that the old man tagging his mother wasn’t his father and that his mother was delusional about who his real father was. The kid was messed up.
Yeah, I just caught this yesterday because it showed up in my Reddit. I find it outrageous that somebody would try to up his book sales by linking it to people’s religious ideas and implying that it is their duty to eat like people that lived 20 centuries ago on the other side of the world. Say, if this is all in the Bible, why not just tell people where to read? That’s free, of course … oh, guess I just answered my question.
I was so incensed, I even blogged about why “What Would Jesus Eat?” dieting is a very bad idea.