Why were New England style steeples added to Mormon church buildings that have totally different architecture? I live a few blocks from the closest LDS chapel (I don’t live in moridor) so I drive past it at least a couple of times a day. The building and the steeple such a ridiculous mismatch that it looks like a joke.
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eb, Loved your post. I'm still a member, though I haven't attended in 2-3 years, and stopped paying tithing a year or so before that. I'll leave things as they are as long as they leave me alone. The only contact I get is a visit 3 or 4 times a year from a HT that I like (a nice, sincere guy). If they ever push the issue, I'll resign, and they definitely "pushed the issue" with you
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For years after I admitted to myself that I didn't believe, I kept hoping that something would come along and prove TSCC was true. That hope is long gone. There is a sliver of a chance that the tooth fairy is real and the moon is made of green cheese, but I don't waste any time thinking about it.
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The three ads featured a guy with a beard (obviously not a GA, SP, bishop, or missionary), a woman (because TSCC holds women in such high regard) and an African-American (no history of bigotry here).
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“A Man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.” ― Benjamin Franklin
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The reason that I could never again align myself with any Abrahamic religion is the concept of eternal reward or eternal punishment. If you believe in eternal life, you have to accept the fact that our mortal existence is 0% of eternity. One’s entire life is not even a drop of water in the Pacific Ocean, and yet we are taught that our decisions and actions in this blink of an eye will determine
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I was in a class he taught at BYU. I'm sorry for his family and sorry that he suffered for so long, but he was probably the most arrogant and condescending person I've ever encountered.
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Thank YOU. And please accept my apologies for being so slow to come around and voice support.
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funny!
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The Relief Society
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five points of fellowship
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"There are those of the rising generation who shall not taste death till Christ comes." Joseph Smith, April 1843 (History of the Church 5:336).
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+1
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As time goes by, your memories of him will bring more smiles and fewer tears.
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#8 Tried and tried (and tried and tried and tried) to receive a spiritual witness of the BOM. Never did.
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debt
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My mission had a member of the office staff whose full time job was dealing with visas. We had tourist visas that could be renewed twice, but then we had to leave the country (cross the border and come right back in). One trick we did was to apply for permanent resident status (the equivalent of a US "green card"). We put on our applications that we were going to be there for only two
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No. I kept waiting for the inspiration or desire. Never happened.
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Celebration of the winter solstice predates Christianity by centuries. Christians coopted many traditions and made them part of the Christmas celebration. The true meaning of Christmas these days is extreme consumerism (and the accompanying debt). That being said, I love it: the music, the lights, the decorations, but when people say “keep Christ in Christmas,” I think “Why? He wasn’t pa
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Yeah, I've heard similar nonsense. So we're supposed to believe that Satan is the ultimate enemy of god and of all of us here on earth, but he wouldn't dare break a rule?
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D&C Section 129 tells how we can tell if visiting angels or spirits are from God: we’re supposed to ask them to shake our hand. Apparently, angels are resurrected beings of flesh and bone, so we’ll feel their hand. If it’s a spirit of a “just man made perfect” he won’t move if you ask to shake his hand. If the spirit offers you his hand and you feel nothing, it is a devil. So
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Here's a more enlightened view: http://www.theonion.com/articles/teen-wastes-prime-childbearing-years-going-to-high,33891/
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I remember having to carry a filmstrip projector as carry-on luggage. I was flying halfway around the world, with luggage to last me for two years, with an overnight stopover in a foreign country and then being booked on a connecting flight that was cancelled, and they were too cheap to ship projectors, so they made us carry them all the way.
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It's better to have your mind in the gutter than out in the street where it can get hit.
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I know this subject has been discussed (excessively?) before, but I’d like to slightly different way of looking at the growth, or shrinkage, of TSCC. I’m going to use a math equation: (A-B) + (C-D). A = people born into the church B = members who die C = converts D = those who leave the church For the first half of the equation, I’m sure that TSCC comes out ahead. There are many mor
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As opposed to religion, which can never admit to being wrong, so they just dig in their heels. Throughout history, there have been many conflicts between science and religion. To the best of my knowledge, religion has never been proven correct in any of those conflicts.
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Science can be defined as the search for answers which are less wrong than the previous answers.
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I remember attending the temple the day before my dad's funeral. I figured if the "veil" was ever going to be "thin," it would be that day. Not only did I not feel anything divine, the session was painfully boring--even more so than usual.
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I agree. It took me many, many years to finally give up on the BOM, but about the same time, I did some research on the Bible and faith in it quickly crumbled. I'm not really an atheist, but I'm comfortable with rejecting organized religion, and comfortable admitting to myself that I don't know the "truth."
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