No coffee for Romney?

[Doubting Thomas]

Yeah I never understood the whole "no caffeine" thing with Mormons. As if caffeine is going to make you curse God or have sex with random women. If mild drugs like that are forbidden, what do they do when they need pain medication? I suppose that medical drugs are OK with them, but why is it OK to take an aspirin if you have a headache, but it's not OK to drink a cup of coffee when you need to wake up in the morning?

Oh hell, why am I even trying to make sense out of religious beliefs?

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Guess now I should lean towards Ron Paul... (after Obama of course).

AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!

I saw him on TV here last night I can't work out if he's a complete loon or a Democrat in disguise,being used to split the vote,to keep even bigger arseholes than Romney out of power.Seems to be working.


I promise never again to complain about the troglodytes we have here in government.The shower the US has make ours look like gifted Statesmen.

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Yeah I never understood the whole "no caffeine" thing with Mormons.

So what? (argument from incredulity


Caffeine is mood altering drug ( stimulant) and not at all irrational to avoid. Same with both alcohol (depressant) and tobacco,(nicotines is a stimulant,I think) both of which are poisons.

However,'unusual' dietary laws are a common and predictable feature of many sects,it's actually about cohesion of the group and feeling 'special'.


"New Heaven New Earth", Kenhelm Burridge

[Epimethean]

Interesting Snopes on an urban legend of a sort which I used to believe. Seems certain types of caffeinated beverages are ok. Wonder what the policy on Red Bull is?

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/mormon.asp

[Doubting Thomas]

The Mormons don't own Coca-Cola, but the Moonies own Proctor & Gamble. Or was that Satanists?

[Minimalist]

One more reason not to like that two-bit phony.

[Jackalope]

Yeah I never understood the whole "no caffeine" thing with Mormons. As if caffeine is going to make you curse God or have sex with random women. If mild drugs like that are forbidden, what do they do when they need pain medication? I suppose that medical drugs are OK with them, but why is it OK to take an aspirin if you have a headache, but it's not OK to drink a cup of coffee when you need to wake up in the morning?

Oh hell, why am I even trying to make sense out of religious beliefs?

My mother's side of the family is Mormon, and though I haven't been exposed to it much (wasn't interested), I do have a little insight.

It's the whole "my body is a temple" thing. Mormon doctrine is that your body is sacred and you shouldn't contaminate it. I believe this doctrine applies only to "elective" contamination - it's OK to use medicine.

For what it's worth, my Mom's brother was a practicing Mormon - he smoked, drank coffee and booze, and was gay. The booze ended up killing him when he was 41. I have no idea how he rationalized all of that - he died when I was in my teens, and I didn't know he was a practicing Mormon. Didn't know he was gay either, until after he died (I only met his partner once, and it was presented as a "roommate" situation).

It's my understanding that a lot of Mormons indulge in things they aren't supposed to. I would imagine that they keep it pretty hushed up though, there is a lot of social pressure within the LDS community to refrain.

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The Mormons don't own Coca-Cola, but the Moonies own Proctor & Gamble. Or was that Satanists?

When I was in my 20's, I had a girlfriend who's family was devoutly christian (the looney tunes variety). They all actually believed the Proctor & Gamble satanist connection and refused to allow any P&G products in their homes. (For those that don't know the story about the P&G / satan connection, there's a page on snopes.com about it, Wikipedia mentions it as well).

[Minimalist]

For what it's worth, my Mom's brother was a practicing Mormon - he smoked, drank coffee and booze, and was gay.

Sounds as if he needed a lot more practice.

[Jackalope]

For what it's worth, my Mom's brother was a practicing Mormon - he smoked, drank coffee and booze, and was gay.

Sounds as if he needed a lot more practice.

LOL, yep - he certainly was a cafeteria Mormon.

[frankiej]

I think that next time one of my mormon "friends" pays me a visit I'm gonna dissolve a caffeine tablet in his water.