Great points!
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Soup kitchen. Hotel. Car dealership.
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TSCC charges admission to watch TSCC implode them in order to keep the downtown mall in the black.
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Because I prayed about it and got a witness from the Holy Ghost that Joseph Smith Jr. lied.
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Have you prayed about this? There's a promise at the end of book 7.
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Good job! I'm writing about my mission experiences in my journal, not in a touchy feely way, but in a brutally honest way. I would like to hopefully publish it in the same way that runtu published his book on his memories of Bolivia. Do you have any tips for a first-time book writer?
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When was TSCC fun? I must have missed that.
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I'm not Atheist, but I know plenty of athiests that teach their kids ethics and the difference between right and wrong. Religion does not have any monypoly on ethics and morality.
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When I told about my conversion from Mormonism to Christianity to my Pastor, I started crying. I don't think it was necessarily that I was touched by the Holy Ghost as much as I was just happy to finally be free of 43 years of oppression. I was crying tears of joy. So, yeah, I guess I'm a big p***y.
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Regardless of if this is determined by economic class or other factors, the fact remains that the determining factors are very subjective and elitist. It demonstrates that the LDS church has put itself in the position of God by determining who gets eternal salvation and who doesn't. This should be the larger issue here. I would think it would be a HUGE issue with evangelical Christians anyway.
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Of course they brought all the correct sacrificial animals with them on their boats, right?
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Sorry to hear that, but hoping for the best in this new chapter in your life.
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When I think of LDS men crying, I think of Glenn Beck.
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Wasn't it Jeffrey Holland that gave a talk where he mentioned Jospeh looking into a hat? I know there was an apostle who admitted it. I didn't know about it as a missionary though. I would think if a missionary knew this and told someone who had some foundation in Christianity, that person would likely have some red flags go up in their mind. It always bothered me that when I was a missionary
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I stand corrected. Thanks.
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Other than this, there's not much evidence that they practiced The Law of Moses. I would think the BoM would be rife of examples of animal sacrifice or "eye for an eye" "tooth for a tooth" similar to the OT. I think it's interesting that these verses mention Christ being the source of their remission of sin before Christ had even fulfilled the law of Moses. It just seems li
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I don't read anything in the BoM about animal sacrifice or taking their sacrifices to the temple to be sacrificed by a Levite priest. While I'm on that subject. Why weren't there Levite priests in the BoM? I mean, it would have been hard for Jews to live their religion without one, wouldn't it? I'd like some information on this.
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When I read Mosiah 4 I got the impression that they were not living the law of Moses. I know it's vague and could go either way, but it really sounded more like a 19th century Methodist sermon than a sermon from 124 BC by a king who was leading people living The Law of Moses. Just my opinion.
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Nobody's got it better than I do! So happy to be out!
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I just quoted this on my FB page and one of my most TBM friends liked it. LOL! She didn't know it was directed at TSCC.
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What? They didn't mention that there were horses and steel in pre-Columbian America? What a bunch of hacks!
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It's because Mormons have to work to make God notice them and it's to show the world that they're better than everyone else.
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I posted some inconvenient truths to TSCC's official FB page around 2 AM this morning (Mountain Daylight Time) and they were deleted by 9 AM. Seems like Joseph's tradition of censorship and squelching free-speech is alive and well.
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The reasons the Mormons say "I know" so often is to try to convince themselves that what they believe is actually knowledge. They're trying to make it so that there is no distinction between faith and knowledge. I did this myself, that's why I believe this. I thought the more I bore my testimony, the more I would "know" that it was true. It's like forcing myself to eat poop
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I had the LDS missionaries over about 2 weeks ago and took 4 discussions before I "fired" them. I really argued the whole "Grace vs. Works" angle with them and gave them scripture upon scripture to consider. I read Ephesians 2:8-10 to them and one of the Elders actually said, "Grace is something you have to work for." So, I read to him from the LDS Bible Dictionar
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I thought I would lose my family for eternity if I left the church. It was such a big deal, I asked a Pastor (I'm now a member of his congregation) what Christians believe on the subject and he told me that everyone who accepts Christ is part of the same family and so as long as my family accepts Christ (not the Mormon one who is related to Satan) that we will be together in the next life. Appa
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My former-bishop uncle is one of the worst offenders of spreading LDS urban myths. He once got on my case for taking the sacrament with my left hand. He never served a mission, so I use my logical fallacy, appeal to authority, approach and tell him that I served a mission and I know better than he does. He really doesn't have a comeback for that, not even an, "Oh yeah, well I was a bishop
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Read from the Tanner's "Mormonism - Shadow or Reality"
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Brazil, Sao Paulo South, 1989 - 1991
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This had better not be happening in your place of work. That's really unprofessional of them if it is.
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