391 - Skinny Folks Go To Heaven: The Remnant Fellowship Cult

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Dan Cummins

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🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 157 minutes

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Summary

Did you ever think that overeating, specifically, could send your soul to Hell? Or that not losing enough weight, fast enough, could jeopardize your salvation? These are just some of the many terrible (and bizarre) messages that very skinny self-proclaimed "prophetess" Gwen Shamblin Lara preached before she died in a plane crash in 2021.

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0:00.0	Did you know that God hates fat people?
0:03.0	Well, maybe hate isn't the right word.
0:05.0	God is disappointed with fat people, disgusted,
0:09.0	and much more likely to send them to hell to burn forever and ever,
0:12.0	Amen. Blessed are the righteous, the kind, the faithful. to
0:13.3	help to burn forever and ever, Amen. Blessed are the righteous, the kind, the faithful, and the skinny.
0:15.8	God loves a hot little beach pot and don't get mad at me for any of this.
0:19.6	Not my beliefs, just the messenger here.
0:23.0	These were the beliefs of now deceased Diet Guru turned preacher slash cult leader Gwen
0:27.6	Champlin Laura, and they remain the beliefs as far as I know of the followers of her still very active Tennessee-based church.
0:35.7	Gwen first appeared in the spotlight in 1984 as the founder of the Waydown Workshop,
0:41.2	W-E-I-G-H, a Christian Diet program that taught students that it's not your
0:46.6	relationship with food that is bad, not exactly, it's your relationship with God that probably needs fixing.
0:52.6	In the program, students were taught that overindulgence is a sin.
0:56.1	Hello, Glutany, and by eating when you're not hungry,
0:59.5	you are directly offending God.
1:02.1	You're not overweight because of what you eat or how much you eat.
1:05.0	You're overweight because you love food more than you love the Lord.
1:10.0	Food is your false idol.
1:12.0	Start putting God first in your life.
1:15.0	Start putting Oreo McFlore second.
1:17.0	Biscuits and gravy third, okay?
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