It could be stake conference. I know my parents mentioned theirs is today.
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If he really wanted to promote peace, he'd be out telling his fellow Muslims to stop murdering people in the name of religion. That'd do wonders for the faith's public image!
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Actually, that's what Good Friday is about. Easter is supposed to be about celebrating the resurrection three days later.
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Best wishes, Wine Country Girl!
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"No other religion does this." I wonder if that's true. I wonder if you go over to Saudi Arabia, or someplace like that, if you'd get a little note like, "Don't forget to decapitate an infidel today! :) Quran 8:12"
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Nope. They don't leave anything out. Its the whole get-up! Ugly green apron, funny baker's hat, weird robe, even the garmies! Mormons believe that's the outfit you need to be in to get to heaven.
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A well-known pagan Egyptian burial document is actually Mormon astrological scripture hand-written by Abraham himself. Thousands of professional archaeologists combing the entirety of the Americas just happened to have completely missed three huge, advanced, utterly unique civilizations. A massive Hebrew civilization plopped down in the middle of the genetically isolated Americas has left
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Oh, I see! Well thank you!
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Well... that's certainly not the kind of response I was expecting.
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On my mission in the UK we were specifically cautioned about teaching Muslims, particularly Pakistanis. It wasn't outright forbidden, but they did tell us to be very careful, because getting a Muslim to even consider joining an "infidel" religion could put their life in real danger. Even in a country with freedom of religion. Apparently, there is a real threat that their Muslim friends
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"If there's one thing I can't stand, its people groveling!" -God https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ42IMu7HIQ
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Your lack of research into that photograph is laughable, but you raise an interesting question: is it possible to truly KNOW anything? For instance, can you KNOW that the sky is blue? Well, it certainly seems obvious. You just go outside and look up. Yup, its blue. But stop and think about it for a second. When you say blue, do you really mean the same thing as everyone else. How do you learn
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If I joined a religion that forbids me from doing math, would a professor failing me from his calculus class be a violation of my freedom of religion too? What a moron!
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Actually, kids don't have to say the pledge. Schools have to do the pledge, but they can't punish students who choose not to participate. They can just sit or stand quietly through the pledge while everyone else is reciting it.
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Why? Did he actually give an interesting talk for once?
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Lets be real; General Conference is super boring. I don't want to sit through 10 hours of worthless, mind-numbing drivel. However, for those of us who still associate with TBMs who don't know we're out, questions about how you liked conference are literally guaranteed to come up. Obviously, the only correct answer to a TBM will be something along the lines of, "Oh yeah, it was fantastic!
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I'm just skimming through the "Missionary Conduct" section of the White Bible picking out some fun ones: Language: Nothing too hard there, I think I broke every rule in that section. Dress and Grooming: Guys would have to get a piercing. Girls would have to get a piercing other than your standard set of earrings. You'd also have to get a tattoo. Other than that, just dressing like
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That's not unique. Its a trait they share with most cults.
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Apart from the stuff about JS and the BoM, all of those are pretty common beliefs among Christians.
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This reminds me of a quote from Jeff Holland, "If, in a court of law, you were accused of being a Latter-day Saint, would there be enough evidence to convict you?" It looks like Monson would easily be acquitted!
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I found a Pew analysis that kind of deals with some of this. They say that about 70% of people who were BIC still consider themselves Mormon today. And about 26% of Mormons in the US are converts. No mention of the retention rates among converts, though. http://www.pewforum.org/2009/07/24/a-portrait-of-mormons-in-the-us-social-and-political-views/ All I could find on cumorah.com was: "U
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Its even worse than you think! Whether he's sexually active or not, every mature male goes through about 350-500 million sperm every day. Sperm don't live forever. If they're not ejaculated, they just die off after a few days and get flushed out with the body's other waste products in the man's urine. Billions of potential babies around the world are dying every second.
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"Time Gods," huh? Are those anything like Time Lords?
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I think that probably the best way we have of honestly measuring the real membership of the Morg is through surveys. The Brazilian census, for example, has a question about religion. The 2010 census found that 225,695 people identified as Latter-day Saints. Meanwhile the Morg claims to have 1,138,740 members in Brazil. That's a difference of nearly a MILLION people! The Morg is counting 913,045 p
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I'm also an atheist, but out of all the religious mindsets I've looked into so far, the one that makes the most sense to me is Deism. Basically, Deism posits that it is extremely unlikely that the universe we see was created by chance, therefore there must be some mind behind its origin. (I don't agree with this, myself. And I think it requires an unwarranted logical leap. How do we know that thi
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If you believe in an all-powerful, omniscient god who "knows the end from the beginning," then you have to conclude that God KNEW Stan was going to do what he did BEFORE God even created him. Which naturally means that God created Stan and raised him specifically FOR THIS PURPOSE! In Mormon mythology, God is ultimately the one responsible for all evil.
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Yeah, "religious freedom" has become a conservative code-word for Christian political dominance.
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Science has already devised ways of helping cripples run, the deaf hear, and is currently working on ways to help the blind see. God better get off his butt; we're beating him at his own game!
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Yeah, lots of people say that, but I just don't get it. I don't find the idea of oblivion scary or depressing or anything. Its just nothing. You'd never know you were dead. You'd never even know that you had ever existed. You'd be gone. You wouldn't feel sadness, or pain, or even experience the oblivion. You would simply not exist. Think of the time before you existed. I just expect more of t
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The Book of Mormon clearly says that life begin at birth, not at conception. In 3 Nephi 1:13 Jesus says, “On the morrow come I into the world.” Then he is born the following day. So, according to their own scripture, Jesus didn't enter his body until, at the earliest, the day before his birth! Mormonism defines life as the union of the body and spirit. So therefore, according to Mormonism, em
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