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Posted by: jay ( )
Date: March 13, 2018 06:06AM
Has anyone been accused of culturally misappropriating from the Mormons? (n/t)


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Posted by: Boaz the Builder ( )
Date: March 13, 2018 10:08AM
Re: Has anyone been accused of culturally misappropriating from the Mormons?

The Jehovah's Witnesses... after all they came later... and the revamps of their website seem suspiciously similar to the LDS one.

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Posted by: Shinehah ( )
Date: March 13, 2018 11:11AM
Re: Has anyone been accused of culturally misappropriating from the Mormons?

Well... many of the national hamburger chains now have Fry Sauce in their Utah locations but I don't know if that counts.

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Posted by: caffiend ( )
Date: March 13, 2018 10:22AM
Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science, sort of.

She had her "revelation" in 1866, and was knowledgeable about JS, BY, and the Kingdom of Zion, in all likelihood. The "restoration" or in her case, "rediscovery" of "original, but lost Christianity and the 'real' Jesus shows up among various pseudo-Christian cults. There's no determining what part was conscious appropriating from LDS, or just coincidental bad religious thinking.

Imitation or overlap? Eddy also stole (or "appropriated") things from other religious systems, such as Transcendentalism (which borrowed from Hinduism) and the Shakers. The Shakers' founder was called "Mother Lee," and Eddy was called "Mother Eddy" for a long while. And Mother Anna Lee came up with the term "Father-Mother God," which Eddy also used.

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Posted by: olderelder ( )
Date: March 13, 2018 10:59AM
Re: Has anyone been accused of culturally misappropriating from the Mormons?

Well, the Reorganized Church, the Strangites and all the other "splinter" Mormon denominations. And the fundamentalist/polygamist sects.

Then there's the Trey Parker/Matt Stone "Book of Mormon" musical and their version of the Joseph Smith story on "South Park." And mentions in books by many different authors, like Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle and Zane Grey. Characters in movies and TV... And so on.

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Posted by: mikemitchell ( )
Date: March 13, 2018 11:23AM
Re: Has anyone been accused of culturally misappropriating from the Mormons?

It's not like there is a huge underground market for magic underwear, priesthood signs and tokens.

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Posted by: CrispingPin ( )
Date: March 13, 2018 11:28AM
Re: Has anyone been accused of culturally misappropriating from the Mormons?

Do you sell your tokens and signs for money? You have them, I presume.

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Posted by: mikemitchell ( )
Date: March 13, 2018 11:34AM
Re: Has anyone been accused of culturally misappropriating from the Mormons?

You can buy anything in this world for money but you can't sell what nobody wants.

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Posted by: ificouldhietokolob ( )
Date: March 13, 2018 11:46AM
Re: Has anyone been accused of culturally misappropriating from the Mormons?

I was once served jello salad, and it wasn't at a mormon pot luck...does that count?

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Posted by: jay ( )
Date: March 13, 2018 01:43PM
Re: Has anyone been accused of culturally misappropriating from the Mormons?

That’s on the mark. I don’t think the culture doesn’t run much deeper than that.

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Posted by: Chicken N. Backpacks ( )
Date: March 13, 2018 12:30PM
Re: Has anyone been accused of culturally misappropriating from the Mormons?

Does porn in garments count?

:-)

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Posted by: jay ( )
Date: March 13, 2018 01:48PM
Re: Has anyone been accused of culturally misappropriating from the Mormons?

Not if they’re lumberjacks.

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Posted by: jay ( )
Date: March 20, 2018 02:52AM
looks like Stevie Wonder would be cool with it

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5aafde34e4b0e8623839fe9a


“He’s a great talent, so all the other stuff is just bullshit,” Wonder said of Mars. “He was inspired by great musicians and great artists and songwriters. So it’s cool.”

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Posted by: Jonny the Smoke ( )
Date: March 20, 2018 10:51AM
Re: Has anyone been accused of culturally misappropriating from the Mormons?

Sometimes I eat dry Honey Nut Cheerios when I watch TV. We found a few between the couch cushions the other day when we were cleaning.

Guilty as charged.

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Posted by: Babyloncansuckit ( )
Date: March 20, 2018 11:28AM
Re: Has anyone been accused of culturally misappropriating from the Mormons?

Nice title for a Mormon movie: “A Fistful of Cheerios”.

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Posted by: Not getting my name ( )
Date: March 21, 2018 12:41PM
Re: Has anyone been accused of culturally misappropriating from the Mormons?

Temple porn is actually a thing. Very niche market but someone must be turned on by it.

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Posted by: notmonotloggedin ( )
Date: March 21, 2018 01:03PM
We all have

As by their own declaration Mormons are the source of anything deemed as "good", praiseworthy, or worthwhile.

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