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Quit chocolate?

Should eating chocolate be a religious taboo as well as smoking?

  • Yes

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • No

    Votes: 7 77.8%
  • I don't believe in religious taboos

    Votes: 2 22.2%
  • Rather not say

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    9
  • Poll closed .

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farouk

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Okay so I used to smoke; I don't now.

Chocolate, too, in excess, can be damaging to health. Some people even quit eating chocolate, too.

I'm wondering why for some ppl smoking is regarded as a 'religious taboo', while eating chocolate is not?

(Just wondered.)

Comments?
 
Individual conscience is a good answer, yes.

I quit smoking and I don't want to smoke or to promote it, either; I think that people should be prepared to leave whether a person smokes to his or her individual conscience, too.

Obesity is a big problem, and food such as chocolate may have something to do with it.

But in the end it's an individual matter.

Blessings.
 
There's nothing wrong with chocolate.
Dark chocolate is healthy for you.
I buy those bars that are 70 % cacao.
No junk in them like high fructose corn syrup.
 
Health wise, smoking and eating chocolate are apples and oranges.

Religious wise, unless you're addicted they're also apples and oranges.
 
Okay so I used to smoke; I don't now.

Chocolate, too, in excess, can be damaging to health. Some people even quit eating chocolate, too.

I'm wondering why for some ppl smoking is regarded as a 'religious taboo', while eating chocolate is not?

(Just wondered.)

Comments?
Almost anything in excess is not good. We can't live in a pure oxygen environment and even too much water can kill us. About the only thing we can do to excess that remains good that I can think of is love.
 
Health wise, smoking and eating chocolate are apples and oranges.

Religious wise, unless you're addicted they're also apples and oranges.

You're probably right at a certain level. Both can be injurious; but only one seems to be the subject of a taboo, though...
 
Chocolate? Taboo? Kids wont visit your house and wont wnat you to visit them. I love chocoloate.

My problems is sugar!!! Sugar is my problem!! My problem: sugar! Altho I dont ferment it into alcohol...
 
Chocolate? Taboo? Kids wont visit your house and wont wnat you to visit them. I love chocoloate.

My problems is sugar!!! Sugar is my problem!! My problem: sugar! Altho I dont ferment it into alcohol...

Ask any dentist what s/he thinks of chocolate...
 
Discussing chocolate and how much people like it always makes me think of Lent when I was a little kid.
Almost all my friends were RCC, French Canadians and Italians. When Lent came around they were always trying to come with something they liked better than chocolate so they wouldn't have to give that up for Lent. They couldn't so they'd just give up candy period.
 
Discussing chocolate and how much people like it always makes me think of Lent when I was a little kid.
Almost all my friends were RCC, French Canadians and Italians. When Lent came around they were always trying to come with something they liked better than chocolate so they wouldn't have to give that up for Lent. They couldn't so they'd just give up candy period.

Shows the fallacy of self-denial as an outward ritual...

Inwardly and spiritually it's very important, of course.

Blessings.
 
Shows the fallacy of self-denial as an outward ritual...

Inwardly and spiritually it's very important, of course.

Blessings.

Well for me as a little girl they were my only witness to religion at all at least after the age of 4. I knew there was a God and sometimes I believed I could feel Him around me but I wasn't raised in a Christian home.
These little girls were my connection. On Ash Wednesday they would come to school with a spot of ashes on their foreheads. I can still remember asking them to explain that and Lent. They were dear little hearts that tried their best to do that. They believed God loved them and told me He loved me too.
So for children even though those things may just be outward it meant something to them inwardly and affected me in a good way too. I will always be grateful to God for those friends.
 
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