Who Said That?

"Which would you part with first-your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?  Your tea, or your religion?  Which would you shake hands with and bid good-bye for ever-your coffee, or your religion?  I should think I had disgraced the man that stands before you this day, if I loved any object on the earth better than I love my religion and my God."

Leave your guess in the comments section below.  Please no google searches or cheating!  Answer will be posted in one week.

Update on Friday, January 9, 2009 at 07:21PM by Kim Riddlebarger

This is Brigham Young's comment on a "word of wisdom" God supposedly gave to Joseph Smith about the evils of "hot drink," i.e., tea and coffee (Journal of Discourses 8:140 August 5, 1860)

Most Reformed churches couldn't function with such "hot drinks."

Comments

[Philip Walker]

I'm guessing some sort of Mormon.

Ad fontes! Joseph Smith.

[Brandon]

that sounds mormonese

[Randy]

Mitt Romney?

["lee n. field"]

Spurgeon?

[Jim Vellenga]

Finney? Just a guess.

[Charles S]

Billy Sunday?

[Zrim]

I don't think Billy Sunday used commas or thought of "religion" in such affirming terms. And I think he shook fists more than hands. But since coffee is in there, it could be a Mormon.

(Substance use is such a funny controversy in contemporary religion.)

[Jim]

Joseph Smith

[Greg]

Billy Sunday?

[dsanger]

Joseph Smith or Brigham Young

[Coyle]

Hmm, I'll go out on a limb and guess Timothy Dwight in one of his anti-crown-pro-boycott sermons.

[John Y]

Some guy trying to sound like John Wayne on the western frontier. Or, maybe John Wayne drew from this guy. How about Ronald Reagan- probably not.

[Bob]

I'll guess John Wesley

[Rev. Z. Bartels]

BONO!

[James Paul]

I'll take a wild gander on A. W. Tozer.

[Marv]

Finney??? or his ilk.

[reg]

The coffee references sound LDS. But is tea a taboo in mormonism too? The references to "religion" as such also sound nonchristian. (The mere fact that mormons dislike coffee is proof positive that theirs is a false religion.) I will guess Joseph Smith or Brigham Young.

[Zrim]

(Reg: props for not using the c-word in reference to Mormons. But last I counted, religion is not a four-letter word.)

[Aaron]

Charles Finney

[John Y]

BONO!--I don't think BONO would have said anything remotely close to that- at least you still think that it is funny- thanks Rev. Bartels; do not know if you are being sarcastic or what but it did make me laugh.