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Posted by: placebo ( )
Date: October 03, 2010 01:22PM
oaks' talk - why we're the bosses, and why you need us

gotta keep the flock in line when they start to think, as all adults should think, they can lead their own lives according to the dictates of their own conscience, and not the commandments of a phantom god and his male, conservative reps.

"our brand is the only brand worth buying!" the church can have that advertising slogan if they want. may be a bit too transparent for them.

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Posted by: helemon ( )
Date: October 03, 2010 01:24PM
He seriously equated the church with a corporate brand?

But it sells toxic and defective products.

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Posted by: placebo ( )
Date: October 03, 2010 01:27PM
it wasn't an out and out comparison, but that was the subtext

a grab for relevancy in an era where more people, enabled by technology and other things, seek fulfillment and satisfaction elsewhere, beyond the church's grasp.

oaks was reminding people the mo' church has the correct priesthood, and that's why they can't stray.

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Posted by: cricket ( )
Date: October 03, 2010 02:04PM
I had to capture your Internet-Mormonism - print press Catholic an out and out comparison, but that was the subtext

zinger and post it as a sub-title to the Internet and Mormonism section of the Salamander. Thanks for the excellent quote!

http://www.salamandersociety.com/internet/

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Posted by: The Man in Black ( )
Date: October 03, 2010 01:36PM
Re: oaks' talk - why we're the bosses, and why you need us

The reference to Martin Luther, a movement against Catholicism made possible by a new technology, only solidifies in my mind that the Internet is to Mormonism as the printing press was to Catholicism.

People who can think read and write for themselves are a danger to any organization that attempts to monopolize truth.

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Posted by: Misfit ( )
Date: October 03, 2010 01:45PM
Re: oaks' talk - why we're the bosses, and why you need us

Thats a perfect analogy. Taken further, the Mormon church is doing a very similar thing as the catholic church in Luther's day: Selling salvation for money. Pay your tithing=temple recommend=your ticket to the celestial kingdom. Don't pay your tithing=no admittance to the temple=no admission to the CK. Therefore, no tithing=no admission to the CK.

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Posted by: The Man in Black ( )
Date: October 03, 2010 01:53PM
Re: oaks' talk - why we're the bosses, and why you need us

And demonizing anyone who says otherwise. I'm just glad they can't burn us.

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