Fat Opinions
One of my aunts recently posted a question on facebook that really got me thinking. This was her question “is wondering why God created fat. Isn’t life hard enough without worrying how fat you are?”
so I have several thoughts and they may not be in order so I am going to dive right in.
First: Fat was a necessary tool for survival in ancient times, not only does it insulate you from cold and I believe from some injuries it is also kind of like a savings account to protect against times of starvation. Humans are not evolving fast enough to keep up with our environment, our environment sits well outside the natural order of things and has advanced far beyond the needs of our bodies. If we still lived a day to day existence of hunting and gathering we would not have such a strong tendency toward obesity. I even notice that now that we are getting closer to autumn I am hungry all the time, I have always believed this to be natures way of having us “store up for winter” even though this concept is no longer needed in society it is hard to overrule instinct with logic.
Second: God did not create self consciousness or the modern view of body image, That is all man made. Humans are simply mammals that think too much about what the other mammals think. I don’t think it has ever crossed a deers mind to worry about its weight.
Last thing, this is terrible but I am going to say it anyway if there were to come a time of starvation upon the land it would be the skinny people dropping like flies…and (grimace) all of us fat people would end up eating them and surviving in the end.
