Posted on 08/17/2019 7:17:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has issued a warning to members that coffee is prohibited no matter how fancy the name, that vaping is banned despite the alluring flavors and that marijuana is outlawed unless prescribed by "competent" doctors.
The new guidance in the August issue of a church youth magazine does not include fundamental changes to the religion's strict health code, but clarifications are significant and seem to reflect growing concern about young Latter-day Saints' adherence to the rules.
The article says it aims to clear up issues that could be confusing for young people within the religion's "Word of Wisdom," a set of rules about what foods and drinks are good for members and what substances they should avoid.
The rules prohibit alcohol, tobacco, illegal drugs and coffee and tea. They are based on what church members believe was a revelation from God to founder Joseph Smith in 1833. The faith's rejection of coffee has long generated curiosity and more than a few jokes, including a scene in the biting satirical Broadway musical called "The Book of Mormon" where dancing cups of coffee appear in a missionary's nightmare.
The new instructions about coffee make clear that there's no gray area allowing coffee-infused drinks and allude to the wide variety that could tempt members of the faith widely known as the Mormon church.
"The word coffee isn't always in the name of coffee drinks. So, before you try what you think is just some new milkshake flavor, here are a couple of rules of thumb: One, if you're in a coffee shop (or any other shop that's well-known for its coffee), the drink you're ordering probably has coffee in it, so either never buy drinks at coffee shops or always ask if there's coffee in it,"
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Any religion that doesn’t like coffee or bacon is not a religion I want to be in.
Shove your “rules”.
My wife is into this Italian espresso powder. One store in town sells it, but frequently are out. She asked the workers why their stock was so unreliable and they said that it’s the Mormons buying it as it wasn’t “coffee” but rather espresso.
Heaven help it if one were to vape coffee!
Sounds like generally good advice (though I can’t personally see how they can live without coffee; and I wonder if they eat chocolate :-)
You better patent that idea. Quick!
No coffee, no booze, no cigarettes....
Mormons are Kommies.../s
But open borders that turns America into North Mexico is A OK.
Sorry, but .. I have 50 +/ mormon in laws, and none of them are worth the powder to blow them away. Coffee? You really think that’s your issue?
I think the reasoning is that ‘God told Joseph Smith so’.
If it’s a health or mental issue, sugar alone can be very bad for you; but I don’t think they forego that. (I guess God forgot to tell Smith about that.)
To think that the GOP actually nominated one of these guys for POTUS.
Coffee is a no no but open borders Romney is a yes yes.
I guess porn in hotels is ok too, since Mitt was on the board of Marriott.
Why is coffee bad? Caffeine? How do Mormons wake up in the morning? I’m serious.
Apparently, it’s because it’s a ‘hot drink’.
I can see where some of them were confused and found cold caffeine allowable; thus the need for this ‘directive’.
(I’m still wondering why theobromine seems to have been left out of God’s advice to Smith; it’s in the same class of chemical...)
Hot Chocolate, anyone?
They drink Diet Coke...
So, there’s that...
Mormons:
Coffee-Bad
Magic underwear-good.
Yeah, I think I’ll stick with the coffee there, guys.
CC
The GOP just needed a Designated Loser for Kenyanesian Usurpation Part II.
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