Truth Be Told

In 2004, a guy named Morgan Spurlock produced a movie called, “Supersize Me.” It was a documentary about the effects of eating a diet of McDonalds for thirty days, on the body. Spurlock only ate McDonalds for three meals a day for thirty days. At the end of that time, doctors did a health assessment. Besides a massive weight gain, doctors found Spurlock’s liver to be identical to an alcoholic. He also reported to have shakes, depression and a decreased libido.

“Supersize Me,” became a super-sized movie and made Spurlock a millionaire. The results of his thirty day McDonald’s diet was striking as he explained at the beginning of the movie he was in good health and denied abusing alcohol when a doctor asked him.

Now thirteen years later, Spurlock has admitted that he hasn’t been sober for more than a week in thirty years.

Wait, what?! Spurlock told the doctor in the documentary, that he didn’t abuse alcohol and now he’s saying he hasn’t been sober for more than a week in thirty years. It seems obvious now that Spurlock’s poor liver condition was due to the fact that he was an alcoholic. And the shakes and depression go right along with alcohol abuse.

When “Supersize Me” came out, I heard many people around me refer to that movie and its claims of what horrible things thirty days of fast food can do to the body. But it appears that wasn’t the case at all. Spurlock was an alcoholic. He wasn’t in great shape to begin with. McDonalds didn’t hurt Spurlock’s liver, thirty years of drinking did.

Am I trying to defend McDonalds? No. What I’m trying to say is that we, as Christians, need to be vigilant in where we get our information.

My mom used to quote this saying to me: “Don’t believe anything you hear and only half of what you see.” Would it be a good idea to eat McDonalds everyday, for thirty days, for every meal? Of course not. But common sense tells you that. We don’t need an alcoholic man to make a movie and lie to us. If we took the quote, “Don’t believe anything you hear and only half of what you see,” it might bode well with all of us. We live in a day and age, where information is coming at us from every direction at a rate, none of us can keep up. Is this true? Is that? How do we know?

I’ve figured, I’ll just keep the Bible as my plum line. The big questions about life can all be answered from the Bible. Like, “where do we come from? Why are we here? Where do we go when we die?” And the rest of it is just icing on the cake. At least I have all the big questions answered and that’s all I need. I know where I’m going after I die. I know why I’m here.  And common sense tells me things like, “don’t eat fast food every day for thirty days. It’s not good for me.”

Unlike McDonalds is for the body, the Bible is excellent nourishment for the soul. And none of it has lies.