... If you're quickly turning grey yet still convinced Sunday is the best day of the week. ... If giving away 10% of your gross income to a financially-nontransparent multi-billion dollar corporation is a healing, holy, uplifting spiritual sacrifice for you. ... If regularly pulling your Jesus Jammie's out of your unmentiinables is part of a necessary ordinance of getting into heaven.
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Jaredites wouldn't date back earlier than 2400 BC. Anything obviously belonging to humans older than 4000 BC shatters the monopoly of the Creation story. Archaeological and anthropological evidence in the Western Hemisphere that shows no sudden breaks in continuity around 3000-2600 BC shatters the global flood theory. In short, don't be afraid. The closest evidence of a people that fit the pr
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Gas lighting is when the church or someone in the church tries to get you to doubt your perception of the present or the past rather than acknowledge something damning to tscc.
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http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/church-provides-context-gospel-topics-pages
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Ya, but until they throw the hammer down... Isn't discriminating on the basis of the gender of the one you love just as arbitrary as the number of people you love? Personally I don't mind some of the reasons why we should ban legal recognition of marriage altogether.
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It comes at the cost of silence though. Hard to tell which does more damage sometimes.
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I lol'd at your reponse. It's true. I've been had. Eh, I've already shed my tears. Now I just shake my head that I had it so bad for so long.
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is not the "logical" extension of . The part you're forgetting is the legal part, the government-action, part. You think the constitutional argument that won over the Supreme Court was an emotional demand: "Who are you Mr. Government to tell me who I can and cannot love!" There is already practical in America. You can love or have sex with, inside and outside of marriage, wi
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Just read it for the first time. I don't know how many times I've called it a pack of lies on my mission and in arguments with "antis". Just assumed if the church said it was lies, it was lies. They're not lies...
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Does he relealize that that extra e on the end makes the word secrete a synonym for ejaculation? There's plenty of that the church has shared rather generously over the years, so I guess he's right.
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Lol. Death to America, but at least we know what we're getting.
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I really don't know. 19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily. Matthew 1:19 34 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? Luke 1:34 4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judæa, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (be
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I don't mean this harshly, but the same constitutional arguments made for gay marriage today were the same ones Mormonism was making 130 years ago. We don't get to arbitrarily choose which unions are legit and which ones aren't, as long as it's all adult consensual. That's what everyone does to the gays. The polygamy question is next logical step in marriage equality. It sucks, but g
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My mother teaches in Seminary and my dad is in the stake presidency. They haven't had any run-ins with the essays personally, but I hear through the grapevine that there's a massive wave of troubled youth, out east of where I live, in Gilbert and Mesa Arizona over the polygamy essay in particular. Theyve had meetings with General authorities explaining the situation was in response to the ess
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The Book of Mormon attempts to confirm a global flood. In the book of ether it refers to the flood waters receding from the face of America and after that it was a hallowed land unto God.
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To see the color in life and know what you're being protected from, you have to stop the daily doses of indoctrination. :). It's a beautiful and happy message.
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I'm male. I can only Giess some of the unique feminine struggles that happen in the church. Sounds like you've grown up in corrupted center of Mormonism. Life out in Arizona wasn't so bad as a Mormon. Mormons outside of Utah are generally less crazy the further you get from Salt Lake. I still struggled with self-esteem, shame for my body and sexuality, and etc. Mormonism has that draining eff
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I just posted Mark Twain's entire review http://www.mrm.org/topics/documents-speeches/mark-twains-review-book-mormon
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The only perspective I have is that of a son. There times when I saw my dad mutter under his breath something about the church. When I confronted him about it, he would shut up and give me the orthodox answer. I got the impression that the church is not to be questioned in our family. It's a shame, because I was suffering silently. If I could have been given the slightest permission that it was o
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I'm sitting in the assembly hall next to the conference center? No one would happen to be here would you?
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I'd be more worried if he were gay. Atheism might be less of a big deal, but I would still tell him what he should expect and how to conscientiously hold a minority viewpoint. Nonoe should ever be bullied out of a viewpoint. Reason, and patient persuasion only. His views on religion are none of their business.
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LDS author oreon Scott card explores some science fiction concepts that attempt to visualize these processes. In his book children of the mind, one Intelligence visits Outside where unorganized intelligences can be organized by will through "philotic connections". He unwittingly creates two persons from his memory, two persons who had a profound influence on his development. These two
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I figured "President Snow" was an obvious nod. Also, if you look for any maps of where the districts are supposed to be, you'll notice the capital is somewhere in the tops of the mountains in the west USA.
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I just finished reading Animal Farm by George Orwell, author of 1984. I feel slapped and punched in the gut. It was by these tactics that Joseph rose to become a womanizing pedophile yet be revered as a hero and the great Prophet by those under his spell. It's also by these principles that the church today gaslights us regularly and has us thinking there's no better place in all the world when th
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I'm reading the 1830 edition. First thing I notice is the New England grammar mixed with an ignorance of Jacobean English. He breaks every rule the language has. Tight translation my ass. God must speak like a country bumpkin.
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View of the Hebrews was Roman colonists. Manuscript found was about the civilized white guy who goes on a condescending tour of the savages.
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I think it's even simpler than that. I can't help but notice that the Book of Mormon channels the spirit of Edward Gibbons who wrote the The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire. In the 1700s to 1800s everybody was obsessed with the glory of Rome: those were the good days; the trick to a successful civilization is figuring out what principles Rome got right and explains their downfall by falling int
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