RE: tlug: preliminary April 11 meeting notes

["Michael Chiu" <mchiu@example.com>]

This is totally off-topic, but I have always been curious as to why tea is
"bad" in the Mormon faith?  I never fully understood this, and felt sorry
for my Chinese friends who couldn't drink tea any longer....

Mikio
-----Original Message-----
差出人 : Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>
宛先 : tlug@example.com <tlug@example.com>
日時 : Monday, April 13, 1998 2:45 PM
件名 : Re: tlug: preliminary April 11 meeting notes


>On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Jonathan Byrne wrote:
>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>
>>
>>
>> >I'd really appreciate it if we also have something OTHER than tea, since
>> >drinking tea is against my religion (seriously).
>>
>>
>> Some kinds of tea here are not made with tea leaves at all (such as
>> mugi-cha, which is made out of roasted barley).  Are those OK, or is it
more
>> of a blanket prohibition on anything in that category?
>
>How does that scripture go, "Avoid even the appearance of evil" or
>something like that.  Basically even though certain teas aren't
>TECHNICALLY illegal, we don't want people seeing Mormons drinking it and
>thinking, "Hey, he's drinking tea, he must not take his religion
>seriously".  You know.  people blow things out of proportion/context all
>the time like that, so it's better to just not even give people cause to
>question it.
>
>Besides, the only kind of tea that I ever liked is the kind that I'm
>explicitly not allowed to have :) (I haven't always been a Mormon, so I
>did have the full gamut of tea experience before joining )
>
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