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Pitcairn17
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Look it up: coffee contains over 1,000 chemicals and chemical compounds. Say what you will about soda, that number dwarfs the ingredients even in diet sodas. Furthermore, coffee is harvested by poorly-paid people slaving under hot sun in backbreaking manual labor, exploited by the big coffee cartels. If anyone should be excommunicated, it should be coffee drinkers whose dark joys take place on the backs of the poor. Seriously. And before you ask, I drink neither coffee nor tea.
You have condemned yourself as a leftist Marxist coffee-hating heretic. You are excommunicated.porthos11:
Look it up: coffee contains over 1,000 chemicals and chemical compounds. Say what you will about soda, that number dwarfs the ingredients even in diet sodas. Furthermore, coffee is harvested by poorly-paid people slaving under hot sun in backbreaking manual labor, exploited by the big coffee cartels. If anyone should be excommunicated, it should be coffee drinkers whose dark joys take place on the backs of the poor. Seriously. And before you ask, I drink neither coffee nor tea.
The Pope has baptized coffee, and therefore it is the holy drink. Further, as already mentioned, it is best in its Italian and Middle-Eastern forms, and is therefore holy by its association with the sacred places.
Yes, it was introduced by Muslims. So what?
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JanR
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I dislike coffee. Guess I’m out.
Tis_Bearself
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If you have been drinking a lot of pop, and you stop for a few weeks and switch to water, then when you drink pop again you will notice undesirable side effects. The more so if you’re in US where most pop is sweetened with high fructose corn syrup; I much prefer pop sweetened with cane sugar, as it has less icky side effect, but in US that’s less available and costs more. Diet pop also has side effects which are different but still unpleasant. Try going cold turkey for 2-3 weeks and you won’t want it as much when you have it again. It just won’t feel so good.
As for coffee, I never drank it till I was about 20, and most of the time I preferred to smell it rather than drink it. Often I only get through about a half cup before it gets cold. I made a point of not drinking it because my parents were somewhat addicted to the stuff and I didn’t want to “need” it that much. I actually had a bigger diet pop habit until I switched over to water about 10 years ago.
I just don’t like getting hooked on stuff, it bugs me. I’m already too dependent on sugar and refined flour because it takes a lot of effort to avoid those things in the American diet, I don’t need more dependencies.
As for coffee, I never drank it till I was about 20, and most of the time I preferred to smell it rather than drink it. Often I only get through about a half cup before it gets cold. I made a point of not drinking it because my parents were somewhat addicted to the stuff and I didn’t want to “need” it that much. I actually had a bigger diet pop habit until I switched over to water about 10 years ago.
I just don’t like getting hooked on stuff, it bugs me. I’m already too dependent on sugar and refined flour because it takes a lot of effort to avoid those things in the American diet, I don’t need more dependencies.
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F_Marturana
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I just challenge regular soda drinkers to check the grams of sugar in a serving of their favorite soda.
Then measure out that amount of sugar in a measuring cup.
Then measure out that amount of sugar in a measuring cup.
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Sarcelle
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It was Jesus himself who transformed water into wine and wine into his blood.
Wine is the holy drink, not coffee.
Heretic. You crossed into heresy with the word “not”.porthos11:
It was Jesus himself who transformed water into wine and wine into his blood.
Wine is the holy drink, not coffee.
Wine is a holy drink. Coffee is also a holy drink. Tea is lame. Pop is evil.
I still drink pop though. And coffee. Because it is the holy drink. And wine.
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Limoncello4021
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Pop is terrible for you. Any list of foods/drinks that you would do well to avoid will include sugary drinks. In fact, those with artificial sweeteners, like Diet Coke, are even worse for you than sugared ones. There was an experiment done once where a human tooth was put in a glass of Coke, with the result that it dissolved completely.
Green tea has many health benefits. I wish I liked it more. Coffee seems to go back and forth in the health news, but generally a couple cups a day are considered fine, if not even healthy. I love coffee, the stronger the better!
Green tea has many health benefits. I wish I liked it more. Coffee seems to go back and forth in the health news, but generally a couple cups a day are considered fine, if not even healthy. I love coffee, the stronger the better!
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rosejmj
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Yeah I think it’s smart to limit caffeine intake to prevent dependency. It’s obviously not necessary to completely although I’d avoid drinking it everyday and limit myself to one serving or something along those lines. Same with other substances that can be addictive.
Personally I am very against soda because of how much sugar it contains and the health problems it can cause when people drink it daily. It’s important to take care of your body so I’d avoid it except for rare occasions. I honestly just prefer to avoid drinking any calories, especially anything that contains sugar. It’s a good penance too, to just drink water instead of stuff that just tastes good
Personally I am very against soda because of how much sugar it contains and the health problems it can cause when people drink it daily. It’s important to take care of your body so I’d avoid it except for rare occasions. I honestly just prefer to avoid drinking any calories, especially anything that contains sugar. It’s a good penance too, to just drink water instead of stuff that just tastes good
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Lucy_1
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Yeah, i know how, I’m just weak willed and can’t stick with it. And of course my will is weak, because I weaken it by quitting. 
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AlNg
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Why? There are many good Catholics and good Christians who like tea. I know a friend who says he is a tea person, not a coffee person. I don’t think it is right to excommunicate someone who prefers tea and does not drink coffee. I don’t see it written anywhere in holy Scripture that you have to drink coffee in order to attain eternal salvation. in fact, Mormons are decent people and they do not drink coffee or tea, except possibly for the herbal tea. Further it is not advisable for children to drink coffee.
Please give a reference in the Bible or in the CCC or in some Church document which supports this.
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I speak as an authority unto myself, and you are excommunicated for making this demand of me.porthos11:
Why? There are many good Catholics and good Christians who like tea. I know a friend who says he is a tea person, not a coffee person. I don’t think it is right to excommunicate someone who prefers tea and does not drink coffee. I don’t see it written anywhere in holy Scripture that you have to drink coffee in order to attain eternal salvation. in fact, Mormons are decent people and they do not drink coffee or tea, except possibly for the herbal tea. Further it is not advisable for children to drink coffee.
Please give a reference in the Bible or in the CCC or in some Church document which supports this.
And for disparaging coffee. And for citing the Mormons.
You need to make a pilgrimage to Turin and have the bishop there forgive your many transgressions.
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On the authority granted to me by myself as an authority unto myself, I grant you a plenary indulgence of coffee for saying the stronger the coffee, the better.
However, you have also spoken in favour of green tea. For that I slap an interdict upon you. So doing the math 100% plenary indulgence minus interdict approx. 75%, that makes 25% indulgence, and therefore 300 days off your purgatory.
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Tis_Bearself
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It could be you have some physical dependency too. I have a hard time cutting out all my sugar. It’s not because I have a weak will for sweets, it’s because cutting all my sugar gives me a monstrous headache and huge mood dip and I have to go mostly to bed for 2 days which isn’t really practical when I’m working.
Tis_Bearself
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Porthos11 is joking. All his posts on this thread are humor.
Nevertheless I confess I found the idea of looking in the Bible or CCC to see if Jesus endorsed coffee or tea to be humorous, given that many countries have a strong cultural preference for one or the other.
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aroosi
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Turkish coffee is also the favorite drink by fortune tellers…
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Dan_Defender
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Healthwise soda is a no-no for me. Coffee is something I rarely drink, mostly because I cannot stomach the stuff without sugar and I prefer to keep my sugar intake low. To each his own.
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Sarcelle
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Have you heard of sarcasm?
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rivera01
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I have up drinking soda/pop about 3 years ago because I wanted to lose weight. I already drank water, but replaced my soda drinking with more water. I realized that I felt more energized and healthy. I’ve been a daily coffee drinking for the last 11 years, so I am not able to give up on that. If I don’t have my daily cup, my head hurts. I guess I’m addicted.
Once in a blue moon I drink some, but I can only stomach about half a can of soda.
Once in a blue moon I drink some, but I can only stomach about half a can of soda.
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