So non-Mormon therapists are now officially declared as Satanic. What could possibly go wrong?????
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And this is 100% opposite from what women have been told for the last 200 years. They have been told in no uncertain terms that sealing means forever. No matter what. Or am I mistaken?
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No. They do not get paid beyond travel expenses.
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As I said elsewhere, when politicians speak they ask why. When church leaders speak, they swoon.
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She was a US senator for many years. Many Mormons hated her, mainly because she had the effrontery to have been female.
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No. Liberals by definition are beyond all hope.
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How 'bout "Up, Awake Ye Defenders of Zion"??? Even the toned-down version is pretty appalling.
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Every Mormon everywhere, probably.
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So no new temple announcements, right?
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They just don't understand how much work it takes to provide them with a carefree lifestyle. Yes, generally a person in America could do just fine with raw milk- but that's only because modern science has given us a field in which any bacterial populations are incredibly isolated, making it highly unlikely to be transmitted. And no, God did not intend for us to drink unpasteurized cow's m
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On a side note, if this really happened then Jesus would have been the most famous person in the entire Roman empire. But... crickets.
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It is the same thing. The title refers to Short Creek.
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One hour and fifty-nine minutes to go (from my location). I'll keep you all poste Note to all: This is slskipper's wife. Apparently slskipper suddenly vanished. That means that Jesus is in the eastern time zone.
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There may indeed be an astronomical calamity "sometime", and that time may be before the sun blows up. But here's the thing: Jesus will not show up. There may be earthquakes, floods, fire raining down from the sky- but (and here I repeat myself) JESUS WILL NOT SHOW UP!!!! I hope you get my point. Thank you.
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The will say "We pray for all God's children". They won't say "Do not beat and rape your children". Any others?
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It's almost like people stay in the church because they want to sin...
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Yes, but: K-M has shown that they are willing and able to destroy anybody they want regardless of the legality of their attacks. And most of our loved ones will be 100% in agreement. I honestly believe it will get very bad very soon. I hope it doesn't, but I fear the worst.
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The time has passed for class action style lawsuits. For the church, that would be a trivial cost of doing business. The MP needs to be directly held responsible. By the father. On the field of honor. Look, people get sick and die. But it is so easy to hide behind an organization. People are getting sick of that dodge.
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Just a thought: they have been moving toward a Southern Baptist/evangelical model in lieu of following the traditional "mainstream" churches such as the Episcopalians. In that sense they are getting ever more right-wing and strident. Te Episcopalians have no problem with women priests or accepting gays. The SBC certainly does. We know which way the Mormons went.
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That would be okay if they were quarantined indefinitely. The problems are the (1) the rest of us have to bear the costs of their stupidity, and (2) they spread their diseases to the whole rest of humanity. The targets are the very young, who are too young for their own vaccines, and the immunocompromised among us. Anti-vax is not a silly pastime. It can be deadly.
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The fact is that I don't care. I have more important things to worry about.
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I say no. The others are too intimidated by his social presence. They don't want the competition.
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And one of the key players is Bonnie Cordon's father. You can't make this stuff up. I hope this submission is not out of line.
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The author falls into the familiar trap of assuming religiosity as the default position and then trying to explain its decline. In my case I did not "fall away". It's just that, with my mind set, I could never understand why so many people loved to feel that they were "so rebellious and proud" that they needed a savior. I never quite got the whole Sinful Nature thing. Just som
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They apparently left out one vital category: "Don't give a hoot".
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The watershed moment has arrived: https://www.salon.com/2023/09/08/another-christian-influencer-arrested-for-child-abuse-why-conservatives-keep-falling-for-these-cons/. All distinctions between Mormons and (other) Christians have been erased and now Jesus can come back, or something. The author clearly sees no distinctive aspects of Mormonism. I'm sure this is exactly what the PR department has b
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Meanwhile Sam Young is still excluded...
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And she is the true face of Mormonism. The system has chased out everybody else. They have squelched any feelings of compassion or thoughtfulness or concern for what is right. The only criterion any more is your willingness to make sure everybody pays their tithing. Anything else is open season. Face it: Mormonism just doesn't work.
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The great disappointment for this crowd is that Mormonism has embraced this mindset along with every other religious group. And that is the main reason people are leaving these days. The church has nothing left to offer except for self-aggrandizement and self-congratulation. As bradley said above, "Jesus didn't return as expected so maybe they don't know what to do with themselves".
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The official church has changed more in the last ten years that ever before in its history. Gone are the individual planets, gone are the Lamanites, gone is the Seed of Cain/fence sitter thing, and gone are the orders to publicly humiliate any young person who has hormones before their missions. And on and on. But I guarantee (as many here have found out the hard way) that any member who says the
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