http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/13/13262285-mormon-church-earns-7-billion-a-year-from-tithing-analysis-indicates According to this estimate, LD$, Inc. makes seven billion dollars a year. But where does all this money go? Unlike leaders of other religious frauds (Jim and Tammy Faye Baker, Rev. Ike, etc) the Brethren are not living a lifestyle of conspicuous consumption. Ho
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and then go on to create a negative anti-religion.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Vatican_Council and Bartolomé de las Casas was one of the first clerics in the Western world who advocated against the enslavement of Native Americans and also Africans -- in the sixteenth century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolom%C3%A9_de_las_Casas
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Why stay in a group that reviles you and is only ultimately interested in your obedience and revenue stream potential? Is the pull of family and tribe that irresistible? It's like offering yourself to a group of vampires that will never let you become one of the undead and instead will keep you alive as a food source. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2016/03/lgbt-mormons/475035/
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Shawn McCraney & The Testimony Glove https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNjS69-6XpM Someone must have remembered this episode from the original Outer Limits "Demon With A Glass Hand" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKiIi54BWyI
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when you peel back the layers of scientific or philosophical racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia you always find a religious argument behind it. "Almighty God created the races -- white, black, yellow, Malay and red, and He placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with His arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that He separated the
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Many religious conservatives do not discriminate between gay and trans folk and view them all as sexual deviants. From the article: "The impetus of the special session was a provision in Charlotte’s expanded nondiscrimination ordinance that would allow transgender individuals to use the bathroom that corresponds to the gender with which they identify. Critics said it was “social engi
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http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article67845317.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2016/03/24/north_carolina_s_anti_lgbtq_law_is_unconstitutional.html Religion (Mormons in the West, evangelicals and Baptists in the South) seems to be the nexus of all the social turmoil that has taken place in America over the last sixty years. Fights over civil rights, interracial marriage
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I've never heard of them before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelema Thelema is a religion based on a philosophical law of the same name, adopted as a central tenet by some religious organizations. The law of Thelema is "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Love is the law, love under will." The law of Thelema was developed in the early 1900s by Aleister Crowley, an
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https://www.lds.org/manual/gospel-principles/chapter-41-the-postmortal-spirit-world?lang=eng http://www.watchman.org/articles/mormonism/hell-paradise-and-spirit-missionaries/ Hell, Paradise and Spirit Missionaries Rick Branch "What is the state of the soul between death and the resurrection? The righteous are in paradise while the wicked are in spirit prison," (Temple Prepar
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at the expense of others has been enlarged and expanded to others in the modern era. The "you can get rich too" prosperity religion was also espoused by Rev. Ike -- albeit more flamboyantly...
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http://www.victoriabeckham.com/collections/aw09-ready-to-wear#image-zoom-9 http://www.neimanmarcus.com/Christian-Louboutin-Suellena-Laser-Cut-Peep-Toe-Red-Sole-Pump-Silver/prod183200041_cat39980735__/p.prod?icid=&searchType=EndecaDrivenCat&rte=%252Fcategory.service%253FitemId%253Dcat39980735%2526pageSize%253D29%2526No%253D0%2526Ns%253DPCS_SORT%2526refinements%253D73700048&eItemId=p
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Freedom of religion is a very rare thing in the world we live in. Say what you will about the FLDS and other similar groups but these people actually believe in what they profess. The ossified gerontocratic collective that runs LDS Church knows all about Mormonism's fraudulent origin. They only profess their "faith" internally to believers and not to external audiences. Mormonism is m
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Fascism
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Nothing new here...
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If people report being shunned by family and rejected by friends there's a good chance that the shunners will themselves be shunned when they leave the cult.
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Now I know there's something more weird than the garment feel-up...
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Scenes from "When Worlds Collide" (1951) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpHjO37JfRw
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"All Of this has happened before and will happen again..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Tao_%28True_Way_Cult%29 http://www.watchman.org/articles/cults-alternative-religions/gods-salvation-church/ This New Religious Movement was a mix of Buddhism, Taoism, and UFOlogy. They emphasized transmigration of souls and three souls per person, and placed great emphasis on spiritu
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Also saw the 75th anniversary of "Gone With The Wind" re-release at the cinema too...
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There is so much gay and trans hate out there and most of it if not all is faith based hate. Even Dick "Darth Vader" Cheney can't hate his gay daughter. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/freedhearts/2014/10/14/to-christian-parents-of-gay-children/
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