{"id":730,"date":"2008-01-12T13:13:07","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T18:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/12\/spiritual-sugar-diabetes.html"},"modified":"2026-02-11T03:36:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T09:36:39","slug":"spiritual-sugar-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/spiritual-sugar-diabetes.html","title":{"rendered":"SPIRITUAL SUGAR DIABETES"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave Daubenmire\u00a0puts his finger on the problem in today’s Churches. They have Christian versions of\u00a0Oprah and Dr. Phil preaching\u00a0in the pulpit and filling bookstores with sugar coated books. They\u00a0sell\u00a0Christians\u00a0junk food.\u00a0 How else do you explain\u00a0what we see them buying for their\u00a0consumption? Now many\u00a0Christians keep craving more sugar until it puts them into a diabetic coma.<\/p>\n

I expect this type of “preaching” from Dr. Phil, or Oprah, or a myriad of “pychobabalists” who dot the world of plasma TV’s. But it is tragic that the best selling Christian books in America today happen to be of this ilk. “Self-help Christianity” (Your Best Life Now, Purpose Driven Life, Becoming a Better You) has replaced the Bible as the most popular reading among church-going folks.<\/p>\n

Instead of meat, church-goers are eating candy. Is it any wonder our nation is in the condition it is in?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Dave Daubenmire\u00a0puts his finger on the problem in today’s Churches. They have Christian versions of\u00a0Oprah and Dr. Phil preaching\u00a0in the pulpit and filling bookstores with sugar coated books. They\u00a0sell\u00a0Christians\u00a0junk food.\u00a0 How else do you explain\u00a0what we see them buying for their\u00a0consumption? Now many\u00a0Christians keep craving more sugar until it puts them into a diabetic coma. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,3,5,45],"tags":[342,135,51,82,66],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aberrantheretical-teaching","category-apostasy","category-church-movements","category-the-church","tag-apostasy","tag-dave-daubenmire","tag-postmodern","tag-psychology","tag-purpose-driven"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pawsE-bM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6843,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/6843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}