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World Service,01 Dec 1989,27 mins

Gluttony

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How did eating come to be considered a sin in the Christian faith? "Christianity has been a predominantly ascetical and other-worldly religion for most of its history" says Don Cupitt from Emmanuel College Cambridge.

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