With our obsession about weight and healthy foods, we have turned gluttony into a general term about not eating right. B et you can;t eat just one is invitation to gluttony. If it is linke dot pleasure, the why do we permit it to go into pain so quickly? Motto: "any thing worth doing is worth doing to excess."

 

Think of how the language of temptation has become focused on food.  think of how we use sin language about not eating correctly. think of the ire that gets directed at fast food places or school lunches that don't measure up to standards. it has the feel of the old temperance/prohibition movement over alcohol.

 

Maybe we would do well to link gluttony to addictive behaviors. what do you think is the push for gluttony in the first place? Instead of self-control/ self-mastery, it is self indulgence.

 

Erik Erikson had the first issue we face as babies as trust v. mistrust. Gluttony would fit this for not moving from the demand for the breast milk. Early infancy will teach a child if the world should be trusted or not, especially those who care for the child. Unable to believe that one can rely on what one needs, we would move toward gluttony as one cannot rely on where the next meal is coming and if it will be sufficient. Gluttony tries to appease a hunger for trust and hope.