Looking at your comments and those of others in this sub-thread, I am reminded of some other notable exception to the first-name usage rule. If you work in, say the Federal Social Security office and you deal directly with the public, you *always* use only your last name when dealing with that public. This rule also applies to certain state and local employees such as teachers and police officers
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Brother Of Jerry Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Offensive? I don’t know. It is kind of weird. Do > you ask flight attendants their first name? Police > officers? Cashiers? I think your age might be showing here as people in the professions you are alluding to often introduce themselves by first names alone. For example, the last time I was on an
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Dave the Atheist Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Religion is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Hands up to all of you who thought that politics had that honor. Edit to add: For me personally, patriotism has always been the last refuge of a scoundrel. Of course, when one thinks about, patriotism and religion, one realizes that they aren't far from each oth
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I don't know if Mormons do it more than others, but the phenomenon you're describing applies to many people of varying faiths, especially those who hold fundamentalist views on sex and politics.
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While I agree with both Unconventionalideas and Summer (see above posts), I would offer that religions tend to attract scoundrels. Why? Because religions are solely based on belief--no proof of claims is required. I think that I would agree with a more controversial statement; namely that religions are founded by scoundrels. While we have little information concerning Muhummad and Jesus Christ
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You must have been reading 1984. I hope you didn't subscribe to the views of Brother O'Brien.
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Nightingale wrote in part: "I don't really understand why such a multitude of people today think they know better than experts in science and medicine. It's creepy and scary. And dangerous if not life-threatening." Perhaps this story from my younger brother (who is also blind) can help to shed some light on this point. While it may seem unrelated, I think that you may see in the e
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...is that many people who find themselves in this situation actually support those who torment them. It's very much like some of the things I've read about where hostages learn to identify with the behaviors and goals of their kidnappers (anybody remember Patty Hearst?) I guess some people prefer the devil they know than the devil they don't...
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Shinehah wrote in part: "Was she happy and fulfilled? You would need to ask her." I doubt that she would be fully truthful if you did ask her unless you were a very close female friend who wouldn't "blab" about her problems to others.
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...the gentleman who has proposed this bigoted, bully-supporting piece of legislation has a first name that is used by both males and females. He wants students to be called by the names assigned at their births which are (presumably) traditional female/male names yet his first name is one that is used by both sexes. Other respondents have pointed out other names that are inter-sexed which wouldn
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...Jamie considered a female name in some quarters? I think this calls for an investigation...
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Here is a quotation taken from MarkC's blog post: "humans are irrational. They find a million excuses to justify their beliefs." Put another way, like the rest of the animal kingdom, we humans are ruled by our emotions. That is the one truth religious texts (and not just Christianity) continue to tell us, though many fail to recognize it for what it is.
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...American Library Association (ALA) ties is advancing https://www.npr.org/2024/03/01/1234226098/in-georgia-a-bill-to-cut-all-ties-with-the-american-library-association-is-advan As poster Anybody would say, we are definitely speeding towards Gilead. From the text portion of the story: "The American Library Association had its annual conference in Chicago last year. Several states h
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Sadly, what BYU-I did was absolutely legal because it is not a state university but a privately-held religious college. The only real way to reform the situation is to publicize what BYU-I did to even more media and more members of the general public. This may help to insure that the school thinks twice before not permitting an ex-Mormon to attend an on-campus public event in the future.
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...was because I figured that I wouldn't be able to support a wife and family with the visual disability and my limited job options because of that. Yes. I knew of some blind people who were successful (Stevie Wonder, Ronnie Milsap) but the majority of blind people statistically were living on fixed incomes, and there was no way in hell that you could afford to raise a family on Social Securit
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xtvs0/episodes/player P.T. Joshua was a "prophet and faith healer" who died in 2021. He operated a cult that is now run by his widow. The BBC got involved when a former cult member contacted the British broadcaster to tell her story. Many facets of this story should be familiar to ex-Mormons and those who read the works of Rick Hasen. While ther
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Statistically Beth is correct. Basically, one of the biggest divides in the U.S. is the political and religious views of people who live in the rural U.S. versus those who live in the urban areas. Your friend's comments on Boise reflect what is happening very well
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Bradley wrote in part: "Which has nothing to do with prosperity gospel tithing as taught by TSCC. Tithing can be a valid principle when practiced with a church that operates as a charity. TSCC is no such thing. It is a financial empire that uses religion as a tax dodge." If you read the story of the widow's mites, it concerns a widow who contributes the last three coins in her pos
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I disagree with the subject line by the OP because Mr. Nelson doesn't actually describe anything, only mentions (possibly taunts) that he has it. That said, what we're seeing here with the Second anointing is very real and very human. You know the old playground taunt: "i got something that you can't have. I got something that you can't have." You see it in the beliefs of Q-an
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Seen on a car driven by a practicing Roman Catholic: "On my way to sainthood. Pass me by."
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+ Fries wrote in part (and I'll insert my comments in between): "Some highlights: * He said that he's had 50-60 people (out of a few thousand who have reached out to him) tell him of the sexual abuse they've endured at the hands of church members, many of them leaders. He said that he has his own lawsuit against the BSA with regard to sexual abuse." Given what is known about sexu
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...I had absolutely no idea who Bill Gathord was either. Until I read (and sent to this Board with much less commentary) an article about the role of Leonard Leo in getting certain types of judges in to the U.S. Court system, I had very little idea of who he was, either. The fact that I either didn't know who these people were or how important they were in policy-making for a certain subset of
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Given that I post what I have access to and what interests me from that access, it's not likely that I will come across anything that would match your request. But if I do...
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...while Part 3 focuses on Gothard, the entirety of the article isn't just on him. Another (if I'm counting correctly) six evangelical ministers with questionable behaviors are profiled in this story, including one (MacArthur) who runs a very popular national radio ministry that is carried widely on noncommercial Protestant stations and through commercial religious networks carried on stations ow
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I just posted about not refinding this story in another thread. I've now found it! https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/1/28/2219593/-Evangelicals-REALLY-don-t-get-it-about-sexual-assault-Here-are-some-examples-Part-3 This is part 3 but it has links to parts 2 and 1 in it and both of the earlier parts are summarized at the beginning of Part 3. I'm going to quote from the bottom of Part 3--
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One very "good" reason why the proposed law is *so* controversial is that *not* reporting child abuse to authorities is now very popular outside of the LDS community, especially among white evangelicals. I just read a piece a few days back at dailykos.com (now I can't find it) that was a three-parter about this very issue among the white conservative evangelical crowd, and it gave examp
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True. Its Christian origins can be traced back to the Acts of the Apostles, Chapters 1 (where Jesus makes the promise of a spirit coming to the Apostles) and 2 (where the Spirit actually appears). In most Christian religions, the Holy Ghost and Holy Spirit are synonomous, though the former wording is not used in the Acts of the Apostles, and the word "Holy" is not attached to the word &
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NPR ran a story about the inability of people in states with anti-abortion laws to seek abortions after having been raped on Wednesday. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/01/24/1226161416/rape-caused-pregnancy-abortion-ban-states From that story comes the following profile: "Each number, a story Samantha Hansen has been an outspoken rape survivor for years, but only r
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...are the cards available in braille for the blind and visually impaired? Yeah, I thought not. If this weren't a religion, it'd be another violation of the ADA!
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The Wikipedia entry is correct--I lived through that. What strikes me now when thinking about the situation is how members of Mr. Meekam's own political party voted to hold him to account by impeaching him. That very same party would more likely today completely back his efforts. And that, I'm afraid, says a lot about the times we live in in the good old U.S.A.
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