Coffee, eles têm muito café no Brasil

 

1200 réis. Brasil coffee stamp. 1/17/1938.

“Coffee Song” sung by Frank Sinatra from 1946.

Way down among Brazilians
Coffee beans grow by the billions
So they've got to find those extra cups to fill
They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil

A while back, [click] i wrote about Mormons and coffee. It’s time for a codicil. 

 

A comedian, Emo Philips told this joke:  “A Mormon told me that they don't drink coffee”. I said, “A cup of coffee every day gives you wonderful benefits.” He said, “Like what?” I said, “Well, it keeps you from being Mormon.”  So, an apple a day keeps the doctor away, and a cup of coffee keeps Mormons away.

You remember learning about the Boston Tea Party in grade school? So, drinking coffee becomes an act of rebellion. I’ve said, “Mormonism is the best argument for atheism”. They tie it to a prohibition to hot beverages. But, the founder of Mormonism, Joseph Smith, was a charlatan. And any successor President of the church can change any teaching at any time, and they have.  The then, new Mormon president, Russell Nelson, forbade the term ‘mormon’ in 2018.

What’s in a name or, in this case, a nickname? When it comes to nicknames of the Church, such as the “LDS Church,” the “Mormon Church,” or the “Church of the Latter-day Saints,” the most important thing in those names is the absence of the Savior’s name. To remove the Lord’s name from the Lord’s Church is a major victory for Satan.

Immediately before that, from 2010 to 2018, the church had an advertising programme called “I’m a Mormon”. Well, that’s not so consequential as the formal rejection of polygamy, but still it is indicative of an arbitrary authoritarianism. Perhaps there is a patriarchy in charge there.

Their theological mythology is the scientology of 19th century America. All the religions that claimed to be restorations were inventive cults. No one was doing the right thing until their originator pulled things out of his hat, and insisted on control and obedience.

Joseph Smith translating, and dictating the Book of Mormon.

Some Mormons maintain that a coffee drinker can not get to heaven. I have spent more than an half hour to find the book that quotes St. Paul. I thought, it was the Brothers Karamazov. It was something similar to, ‘Everything is permitted to you, but not everything is good for you’. There is something like that in I Corinthians vi.12. — All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient. All things are lawful to me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. So, i have the ability to drink coffee; why would it be bad for me? The prohibition is to control behaviour, the authority is both nebulous and capricious. As for me and my tribe, we will drink coffee.

“ And again, hot drinks are not for the body or the belly.” — Joseph Smith, Word of Wisdom 89.9.

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postscriptum: 11 July 2023.  sometimes, i forget to type something. When i was in college, there was a rumour/joke that there was a name brand laxative in the cafeteria coffee. A lot of people only start regularly drinking coffee in early adulthood. I conjecture, relatively few high schoolers drink much coffee. Coffee does stimulate intestinal activity. Perhaps, mormons need some regularity; and perhaps their church does not want a free flow. Sigmund Freud could have run with that. Maybe, they just need a good s**t.