I'm sure you have your reasons but I'd like to know why. They have a lot of good stories. Just curious.
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http://www.npr.org/2011/03/04/134230317/alice-cooper-the-gentle-man-behind-the-shock-rocker
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who, according to legend, sold his soul to the Devil at crossroads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson#Devil_legend http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/26919 but this musician Faustian bargain has also been mentioned in connection with many others including Giuseppe Tartini and Niccolò Paganini... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal_with_the_Devil
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Part of me wants to grab people and scream "It's not real! It's fake! Don't believe it!" a'la Invasion of the Body Snatchers or To Serve Man or Soylent Green. People in the 1830s and 1840s knew Mormonism was fraudulent. Thaks to the Internet all of Mormonism is laid bare upon the altar of the Information Age. Unfortunately, some people are still falling for it. It just won't die.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9R1MKgPCE4o Couldn't resist...hee hee hee
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But are there any African traditional polygamists who are Mormon?
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for the express purpose of defrauding people via pseudo religion and flattery.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/viking-discovery-canada-satellite_us_56fe36bfe4b0daf53aef5a26 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/160331-viking-discovery-north-america-canada-archaeology/
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_heresies
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Her theophanic visitation story is more believable than Joseph Smiths -- if you believe in such things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Angelica#Reputed_vision_of_the_Child_Jesus "According to EWTN personalities Raymond Arroyo and Bob and Penny Lord, Mother Angelica also reported experiencing an apparition of the Child Jesus. She claimed to have met the Child Jesus several times i
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This isn't the future. It's here now...in Iceland. This trend is also rising in North America and spells doom for the future of LD$, Inc. http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/24/travel/wonder-list-bill-weir-iceland/ "What would a society look like without marriage?" The question popped into my brain after I stumbled across a list of countries with the most unwed mothers. With 40%
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMeBTReEbTw
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"The Message" (1977) http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ewzp3_the-message-full-movie-in-english_shortfilms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_missionary_activity
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-DsUn4rcVo&index=17&list=PLQ9bYHCQyNSN9Ieq5wgp9s2EaYmh3Uynj http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x22y4lt_the-magnetic-monster-1953-feature_shortfilms
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and he is not all-powerful or all-knowing. Elohim is just a mortal man with godlike powers that Mormons have deified into a god. https://www.lds.org/ensign/1971/04/the-king-follett-sermon?lang=eng "God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret. If the veil were rent today, and the great God who holds this wor
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http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/13/13262285-mormon-church-earns-7-billion-a-year-from-tithing-analysis-indicates According to this estimate, LD$, 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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