Author Topic: Reading the Bible while smoking (Read 1716 times)

Disputaciones · « **on:** January 02, 2016, 03:55:41 PM »

99% of the time that I smoke, I am always reading something on my iPad, whether it's a PDF or something online, or listening to something. I rarely just smoke and do nothing else at the same time.

So I have the original 16th century Douay in my iPad, but i have always refrained from reading it while I smoke. I don't know if it may be a bad thing so that's why I haven't done it.

But if there's nothing wrong with it then I would start reading it while I smoke.

Has anyone ever done this? What about old time people with their pipes? I wonder if they ever read the Bible while smoking their pipe.

Note: I smoke cigarettes, not with a pipe.

clare · « **Reply #1 on:** January 02, 2016, 03:57:51 PM »

Do you know the old Jesuit joke?

May I smoke while I pray? No.
May I pray while I smoke? Yes.

Capt McQuigg · « **Reply #2 on:** January 02, 2016, 04:25:18 PM »

Smoke 'me if you got 'em.

I would recommend that you switch to pipe smoking, but if you enjoy cigarettes, then have at it.

When holding a physical Bible, be careful when holding a lit match and don't let the ashes fall on the page.

:detective: ------> pipe smoking, not sleuthing!

Disputaciones · « **Reply #3 on:** January 02, 2016, 04:25:24 PM »

Quote from: clare

Do you know the old Jesuit joke?

May I smoke while I pray? No.
May I pray while I smoke? Yes.

Maybe I heard it once a long time ago.

What does it mean? No?

Disputaciones · « **Reply #4 on:** January 02, 2016, 04:26:26 PM »

Quote from: Capt McQuigg

Smoke 'me if you got 'em.

I would recommend that you switch to pipe smoking, but if you enjoy cigarettes, then have at it.

When holding a physical Bible, be careful when holding a lit match and don't let the ashes fall on the page.

:detective: ------> pipe smoking, not sleuthing!

If it were a physical one, maybe I never would, but since it's digital, it feels different for me.

Iuvenalis · « **Reply #5 on:** January 02, 2016, 04:28:11 PM »

I have a pipe sometimes while reading holy books, commentary or otherwise. I'm sure I've read scripture doing so.

I definitely have a little scotch in the evening and read, that reading would be whatever I'm reading at the time: Gwynne's Latin, City of God, Pre VII encyclicals, or Scripture.

I'm not sure I see the conflict

Matto · « **Reply #6 on:** January 02, 2016, 04:28:47 PM »

Quote from: Capt McQuigg

I would recommend that you switch to pipe smoking, but if you enjoy cigarettes, then have at it.

As a former smoker of pipes and cigarettes, I would recommend that anyone who wants to smoke should try smoking out of pipes and not cigarettes. I thoroughly enjoyed smoking out of pipes much more than smoking out of cigarettes. I prefered smoking out of corn cob pipes over the wooden ones I tried but I enjoyed both more than cigarettes.

TKGS · « **Reply #7 on:** January 02, 2016, 05:47:56 PM »

Quote from: Disputaciones

Quote from: clare
Do you know the old Jesuit joke?

May I smoke while I pray? No.
May I pray while I smoke? Yes.

Maybe I heard it once a long time ago.

What does it mean? No?

A Jesuit and a Dominican were talking. The Dominican says that he asked his superior if he could smoke while he prays and was told that it would not be appropriate. The Jesuit tells him he asked the wrong question. He should have asked if he could pray when he was smoking.

In your case, No. You should not smoke while you're reading your bible.

On the other hand, if you would like to read your bible while you're smoking, that would be ok.

Stubborn · « **Reply #8 on:** January 02, 2016, 05:52:25 PM »

Better to smoke here than in the hereafter.

McCork · « **Reply #9 on:** January 02, 2016, 06:17:00 PM »

I think what the OP is really asking is - is it an extra venial sin to read the bible WHILE sinning venially.

Smoking isn't necessarily a sin if done in moderation, so if one is smoking in moderation, then there would be no extra sin by reading the bible doing so.

However, if one is addicted to the pleasure beyond reason (or harming health or giving scandal), I think there would be extra venial sin to be doing so while reading the bible, akin to the principle that if you venially sin on a Sunday or Holy Day of obligation, the sin is more offensive to God (though never turning a venial sin into a mortal sin).

poche · « **Reply #10 on:** January 03, 2016, 04:17:34 AM »

I don't smoke but I like to sip bourbon while I read the Bible.
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AlanF · « **Reply #11 on:** January 03, 2016, 02:23:34 PM »

I don't see a problem with it, personally. I'm a pipe smoker and I often read while smoking, I don't see a problem with it being the bible that I'm reading whilst smoking. I wouldn't smoke whilst doing meditations on scriptural verses or praying the Rosary, though.