Food poisoning at a pot luck dinner caused more than 100 people to become sick following a potluck dinner at a Mormon church in Nevada. A local hospital in Logandale, Nevada has seen people coming in with symptoms of gastrointestinal flu all week long. The outbreak in the Moapa Valley area that has sickened dozens of people.
Pot luck indeed.
Question for TBM's to answer: 1. Did the congregation not bless the food? 2. Did the person blessing the food not do so correctly or were they unworthy to do so? 3. Did God want this congregation to suffer for some kind of learning experience? 4. Does blessing the food not work when the food isn't prepared properly?
I doubt that the average TBM actually believes blessing the food before eating it will somehow remove or minimize food contamination resulting from improper and unhygienic preparation of food, or that any Church leader would endorse that concept. I have encountered some weird beliefs about saying grace, however. One TBM friend I had believed that the blessing on the food couldn't be effective unless all the food was uncovered (for example, lids removed from drink bottles, condiment containers, salad dressings, etc.) before saying the blessing.
No precept or claim is more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
― Harlan Ellison
Gunnar wrote:One TBM friend I had believed that the blessing on the food couldn't be effective unless all the food was uncovered (for example, lids removed from drink bottles, condiment containers, salad dressings, etc.) before saying the blessing.
Just as the sacrament bread or water must be uncovered prior to reading the sacrament blessing.
That said, with the Book of Mormon, we are not dealing with a civilization with no written record. What we are dealing with is a written record with no civilization. (Runtu, Feb 2015)
Fence Sitter wrote:When ever I have attended pot luck ward socials I make sure I know which dish my wife has prepared and stick to it.
A smart move. I won't eat at commercial buffets much less community ones. When I took the ServSafe course they estimated <10% of food borne illnesses are reported....scary.
Gunnar wrote:One TBM friend I had believed that the blessing on the food couldn't be effective unless all the food was uncovered (for example, lids removed from drink bottles, condiment containers, salad dressings, etc.) before saying the blessing.
Just as the sacrament bread or water must be uncovered prior to reading the sacrament blessing.
Yes, because just like Superman can't see through lead, god can't bless through Tupperware lids, plastic wrap or bottle caps. There's a reason people are warned against dry cleaning wrapping.
God belief is for people who don't want to live life on the universe's terms.
Gunnar wrote:One TBM friend I had believed that the blessing on the food couldn't be effective unless all the food was uncovered (for example, lids removed from drink bottles, condiment containers, salad dressings, etc.) before saying the blessing.
Just as the sacrament bread or water must be uncovered prior to reading the sacrament blessing.
Good point! I didn't think of that, but you're right. That is equally silly.
No precept or claim is more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
― Harlan Ellison
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei