Yes. As others have pointed out, so what? "Christian" does not mean "only acceptable way of life". Mormonism teaches that its modalities were direct instructions from Jesus for the modern audience. Yes, Jesus/Paul/whoever said other things two thousand years ago. That was then. This is now. The whole point of Mormonism is to give us the full picture of what Jesus/God ha
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Indeed.
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But plenty of people are quite willing to kill if other people don't wear the right kind of ceremonial clothing.
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But will they relegate her coffin to the outer fringes of the funeral chapel?
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But there is no middle any more. I exaggerate some, but not much.
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I needed a lot of emotional Band-aids. Those on the inside just can't see how their actions can hurt so much.
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I was told it was two "prophets", which in the Mormon mind meant anybody who held the Priesthood which included missionaries which meant that all of us sitting in Deacon's Quorum in 1965 were led to believe that we personally could be the Chosen Two in six years and so we all prayed extra hard that night. Believe me, this idea played a major part in our life plans. Because we all knew t
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We all know that every single Mormon is anticipating the call to go back to Missouri, or will by the end of the day. We all know that it will be the hot topic for F & T meetings tomorrow. And we all know that anybody who says these may not be the actual Last Days will be suddenly uninvited to all the backyard barbecues. Here's my prediction: there will be large scale destruction in Israel.
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That's what "they" want you to think...
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"Dear Bishop: it sounds like you need to grow up!" IMO.
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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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