Last weekend we purchased the movie Nacho Libre on DVD. And I was totally flipping excited to watch it, since I missed it in the theaters just like I’ve missed nearly every movie in the theater since about mid year 1998. Having children dramatically effects your theater going ability. Dramatically people. Although this is Utah and people just take their kids to the movies anyway. For some reason parents here in the land of Deseret didn’t get instructed on social etiquette, because they feel it is perfectly acceptable to take their very small children with them ANYWHERE THEY GO. There is nothing like watching Gollum bite Frodo’s finger off while a one year old squeals from the seat behind you. The only thing close to being like it is watching Gollum bite Frodo’s finger off and having your four year old ask you to rewind it so he can watch it again from his seat next to you on the couch.
So I was excited to watch the movie, and I wasn’t disappointed. It was cute and funny and off the wall. But my favorite part was when Nacho asks his friend Steven if he is going to pray to God for help wrestling, and Steven answers “I don’t believe in God, I believe in science.” I totally didn’t expect it, but it Made. My. Weekend.
What made my Wednesday was when I was reading some news on msnbc.com. There were two articles, one about coffee and the other about red wine, and both affirmed and strengthened my belief in my religion (science), instead of a belief in, lets say, a religion with a crazy fabricated food law.
I was reading through the articles you linked to about Mormon food restrictions. I never knew about that. Does that mean that Mormons cannot eat corn flakes, oatmeal, rye bread or barley soup?
Human beings are so weird the way they create religions, then create goofy rituals and unreasonable restrictions for themselves and unnecessarily complicate their lives.
Like with so many things in religion, the Mormons pick and choose which parts of the Word of Wisdom apply to them. For example, caffene in coffee and tea is bad but ok in soft drinks. Or mild barley drinks(ie, beer) are ok in the origional revelation, but not now. And the part about only eating meat in times of winter and famine? They just totally ignore that part completely. And while Mormons claim that the reason for the revelation is to test the obedience of the saints, there is a lot of evidence that it was economically motivated, because the early church didn’t want it’s members buying coffee,alcohol or tobacco from non-Mormons. Which,to me, makes the most sense for why they have the stupid law.