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3/24/2007
7:46:16 am EDT
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Mormon Church Objects To Java-Drinking Angel
Author: AP Source: MSNBC
Title: MORMON CHURCH OBJECTS TO JAVA-DRINKING ANGEL
For a coffee shop, t-shirts of an Mormon angel with java flowing into his trumpet are selling well. But they don’t have the blessing of religious leaders.
The shirts have upset the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Not only is Moroni a revered figure — Mormons believe he appeared to church founder Joseph Smith — but LDS members are discouraged from drinking coffee.
The shirts show the angel Moroni, a male figure in a robe blowing a trumpet. The trumpet is turned up at an angle as coffee is poured in.
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| How Do You Copyright A Divine Being??? | Mar 26th. at 3:23:45 pm EDT
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Mysteries Child (Garfield, Arkansas) - Email Me
I'm really wondering about this. There could be a massive gold mine here for people like me.
*pries tongue from cheek*
Seriously. If ya don't like the t-shirt...
...then don't buy one.
Gripe about it. Preach about it. Scream at your faithful followers about it. If you really think you need to, scream at the rest of us about it.
And, at the end of the day, leave our clothes alone.
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| An Interesting Theology | Mar 25th. at 8:37:28 am EDT
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Penny J Novack (Charlemont, Massachusetts) - Email Me
I'm afraid I never made it through the Book of Moroni...
Actually, the amazing thing about Mormonism is that their promised afterlife for the qualified faithful is to become "gods" -- creating their own universes if I understood this correctly.
But there had to be a Male-Female set. Could be more than one of each sex but absolutely had to be a set of both sexes.
This was the real reason polygamy was instituted. So many men had been murdered in the persecutions (and those really did happen, folks) that the women were feeling cheated of their after-life promise.
As to the advertisement, I've never seen it. Out of all the angelic figures created over the centuries, is Moroni really represented in a singular way, different from all others? I didn't know that.
I'd love to have seen the gold tablets, though. Whew!!
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| A Quick Question | Mar 25th. at 6:56:28 am EDT
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stalkingwolf (Bullhead City, Arizona) - Email Me
Isnt moroni the latin plural of moron?
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| I'm Offended.... | Mar 25th. at 2:31:22 am EDT
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Roy Linford Adams (Buxton, Maine) - Email Me
.... By the Aspirin commercial that uses Poseidon.
Here's a pain reliever commercial I have in mind.
Opening: Jesus is just nailed to the cross and being hoisted up by roman soldiers.
Face shot up close to jesus. He is snearing with pain.
Announcer: "Are you feeling a lot of pain?"
Jesus perks up and nods: "boy am I."
Announcer: "Well then try Pain-B-gone.
Begin product modeling
Announcer: "Pain-B-gone Pain Relieving Spray is the topical analgesic spray used across the USA by chiropractors, massage therapists, physical therapists and sports teams to help relieve muscle and joint pain. It goes on cool and then almost creates a "mask" of pain relief---helping to block the pain."
The cross is being raised up into camera sight. Jesus has a huge grin on his face.
Begin commercial end, complete with warnings and side effects.
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| Weird Mormon Aura | Mar 25th. at 12:56:17 am EDT
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Opus the Poet (Garland, Texas) - Email Me - Web
That's just their caffiene deprivation showing. They even stopped drining hot cocoa when they found out it had caffiene in it.
Opus (who used to live in Midvale, Mormonland)
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| If It's Trademarked . . . | Mar 25th. at 12:36:28 am EDT
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Shadowbear (Hillsboro, Oregon) - Email Me
then they are right to complain, if it is not a trademarked image, then suck it up and keep on truckin. I had a husband that was a Mormon and - guess what, their god concept is closer to pagans than any mainstream christian group. If, for some reason, I had to join a "christian" group of some kind, it would probably be theirs. Not about to, but if I had to.
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| Oh Well.... | Mar 24th. at 3:44:32 pm EDT
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
The world is full of tasteless things that are more deserving of being bent out of shape about that a T-shirt often doesn't seem all that important.
Perhaps if they could show the angel turning down a cup of coffee, that might be a better compromise.
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| ... | Mar 24th. at 3:44:21 pm EDT
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Draken (Bronx, New York) - Email Me - Web
What were their reactions for the album cover of Black Sabbath's "Heaven and Hell?"
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| I Have An Announcement | Mar 24th. at 3:02:53 pm EDT
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karrie9 (Kenosha, Wisconsin) - Email Me - Web
God has been copyrighted. Anyone who mentions or uses his name must now pay penance to me....and calling him by any other name is considered a derivative work
Imagine what The Onion do with that?
Hey, at least the Mormons didn't have violent demonstrations and murder nuns for sake of Moroni. There is that.
Controversy always sells.
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| OH BROTHER.... | Mar 24th. at 2:56:06 pm EDT
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Whitewolf (Schenectady, New York) - Email Me
tell 'em to grow up and get a life....
Love to all
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| And Where Are The Mormons When We Have An Issue? | Mar 24th. at 11:32:17 am EDT
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Aidan Odinson (Collingdale, Pennsylvania) - Email Me
My guess is, if it's a parody, they should be as safe as the folks at Landover Baptist Church. If you want to see parody, visit landoverbaptist.org, and realize that it was originated by former followers of Falwell!
But where this is concerned, if the Mormons are going to be so sensitive, perhaps they should also apply that sensitivity to other faiths as well.
How many times has someone done something like that to us?
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| Parody | Mar 24th. at 9:32:03 am EDT
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Greybird (Sullivan, Indiana) - Email Me
"“It was a spoof,” Beazer said. “It was meant to be fun.”"
They could be in the clear under fair use if it is, indeed, a parody.
In any case, it is a religious figure doing something that the religion finds distasteful. Fair use or not, that is pretty tasteless. Put it up there with Mohammed eating a pork chop.
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