The question turns the facts on their head. The burden of proof is squarely on the claimants. IOW: prove that there is a god.
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What book?
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It offers a sense of reassurance in a chaotic world. That chaotic world is elsewhere known as reality.
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Never mind. I see that the bill would indeed allow Nazi and Confederate flags.
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Maybe in the past. But more and more, the top tiers are being filled by those whose principal qualification seems to be wealth. And while their actual "salary" may be reduced, they are rewarded with every comfort a creature could ever imagine.
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Yes.
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but not for the rich folks. And the rich folks are the ones at the top making all those rules. There are no rules for the upper leadership. Thank you.
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No.It is their consequence for agreeing in the first place. They all know what they are getting into. They all decided they would trade all the adulation and lavish lifestyle for whatever happens later. Please note: none of this applies to their wives.
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The terrifying fact is that they actually believe this.
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We all know that all this is the triumph of Ezra T. Benson's takeover of Mormonism. Fluoridation, like everything else in his world, was a Communist plot. *Anything* emanating from "The Government" was a Communist plot, and a cursory review of the Utah legislature makes it obvious that their whole mission this year was to establish Benson/Skousenism as the only legitimate basis for gove
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They already do. It's called the Second Anointing. And it's all about being a super donor.
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That "doctrine" is as permanent as any other "doctrine" spouted by them. It can vanish overnight.
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Oh, lots and lots. But you are never allowed to ask them about any of them.
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It would be so different if the buildings were "ours". They are not "ours"- they are "theirs". We are asked to clean rich people's indulgences.
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Humanities people need to be trained in the sciences. Hard sciences, like analytical chemistry where the answer is either right or it is wrong. It is well past the time when scientific training gets relegated to a social punchline.
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Every talk will be a recounting of the speakers' immediate spiritual encounter with Jesus. Every talk will express how incredibly ecstatic they felt at the moment when they accepted Jesus into their hearts and thereby received a remission of all their sins. Note that they will never, ever say what those sins actually are (like lying to the SEC or making young missionaries feel like sh!t). No, the
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Call me when they say that in Sacrament Meeting.
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I used to have a couple of sailboats at the Great Salt Lake. Maybe I'll get another one someday.
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I lived in Oz around 1990. At the bookstore next to the Sydney temple they were selling Tabernacle Choir CDs. One of them was "God Bless America". I do not kid.
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They want to be more "mainstream". The problem is, they haven't figured out which stream to be the main ones of: Establishment WASPs (Episcopalians from the society pages), Baptists (Praise Jesus!), Catholics (Lent and Stations of the Cross and Palm Sunday), or maybe right-wing anti-Communists (Cleon Skousen and pro-business and to hell with anything remotely resembling a coherent theol
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Really. Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyA5KvivUdk
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Tent revivals have largely been replaced by the megachurch phenomenon, I believe. And yes, the LDS church seems to be trying to cash in on that angle as well. I'm thinking of the recent youth bashes with all kinds of Jesus music and Jesus testimonials and Jesus hosannas. That's what I think, anyway.
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I fully understand the sentiment. But the Christianity that emerged from Paul says that all you have to do to be saved is accept the authority of Jesus to "save" you. That's all there is to it. One simple trick is all it takes. In that paradigm, Jesus's teachings are only secondary and in fact are a distraction because of all that "works" thing. Paul said you never have to con
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Okay, so Easter is coming up. And Lent and Palm Sunday and so on. And apparently Mormons are starting to horn in on it in an attempt to appear more "Christian". But here's the think (as I posted a while ago): all those things are associated with a specific branch of Christianity- High Church or liturgical groups (like Catholics, Orthodox, or Anglican)- *and that is the exact opposite of
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Better to say it ruined my life.
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Never ascribe to malice what can be explained by stupidity. Somewhere along the way he got a bee in his bonnet and that's all he knows.
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Step one: invent a disease. Step two: sell a cure that doesn't really cure anything but makes people feel so defective that they keep paying you over and over because that's what all their friends and family are telling them they have to do. Did I miss anything?
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I'm not sure we can link it here. I googled it and found it on Instagram.
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Following on from the recent post by [|]. That's how we get legislators who are convinced that the most important thing God wants them to do is outlaw fluoridation in the water. I wish I were kidding.
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Actually, it is the motivation to develop a Grand Unified Theory on the way to the Theory of Everything. People are indeed working on it.
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