Watching Utah St. v Washington play in the NCAA Tourney. CBS/TBS/TNT announcers must not have heard that they're no mormons any longer. Announcer, commenting on a Utah State player's age. "Yeah, but he spent 2 years on his mormon mission". Ha!
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Wow. Kind of a dick. That's what parents do, they help their kids if and when they can. Telling your kid not to touch a hot stove burner, because it will cause serious damage and pain, is the right thing to do vs. "letting them figure it out for themselves". Especially if you can cut through miles of red tape and bureaucracy of government agencies. You could probably start a small, loca
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Not to insult your intelligence, but this needs repeating. You do understand the purpose of a mission-right? It's to indoctrinate the missionary into a lifetime of paying tithing. You get that-right? The church is a 100 billion dollar MLM. With vast financial and real estate holdings. They don't care if a missionary converts 15 suckers from "shit hole countries", that can't pay tithing.
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Well, two things. You're right- the FLDS and other splinter groups live the religion closer to Joe Smith and Briggy Young's mormonism, than today's LDS church. But, all mormons and exmo's are not complicit. I know many mormons that were always told that much of real church history was an "anti mormon" lie. Even with the CES letter and the church essays, on the church website, they refus
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I'm betting they'll let the story fade without much comment. No way to put a positive spin on their getting kicked out of Russia.
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Going home. I hope they "detain" two more,(treating them well) until ChurchCo gets the message. https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900061355/russia-releases-two-latter-day-saint-volunteers-after-nearly-three-weeks-in-jail.html
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It's obvious that Nelson is a narcissistic attention whore. Changing "LDS" and "Mormon". Throwing himself a big birthday bash,etc. Meeting with the Pope and getting his picture circulated was probably on his bucket list. He couldn't get the publicity on his own, that he got with meeting the Pope. Nelson, ala Trump, would throw himself a military parade down West Temple if he t
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That's absolutely correct. Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens in Russia without the approval of Putin and his henchmen. Putin "allows" the church to be, because, as you say, it placates some of the population and gives them false hope. Yesterday, Putin signed a law making it a crime for Russian media to write or broadcast anything critical of him. People that have crossed Putin have a
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"I think these two missionaries just had the misfortune of pissing off the wrong priest." No, these missionaries had the misfortune of having parents with no balls. Parents that should tell the church; "My kid will gladly serve a mission for the church. Just not in a place where the political, and brutal leadership is hostile to mormonism".
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To update today's Russia "volunteer" post. https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2019/03/18/latter-day-saint/ Doesn't look like mush progress. I'm betting they are eating better in captivity than in the field.
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Maybe you now have to search for "Volunteers for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints"?
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Sandy doesn't have a temple. There's one in South Jordan, not far from the one in West Jordan.
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I think that's from the latest audition for The Colonel in KFC's new commercials.
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Cool story; "This obit says that more information is available on the Larkin Mortuary website but I don't see any links as of today." There's a large Larkin mortuary, near my home that I drive near almost daily. There's another one in Riverton, by my friends home. If it doesn't pop up, online, in a few days, I could stop by and inquire for you.
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"There are things that we don't know until we are ready" In other words; quit asking questions that point out the absurdity of this premise.
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If you had any balls, you'd open carry, open container, and wear a cross necklace. Amateur.
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No Amyjo, that is the case. And no, they can't sue. Pompous Windbag summed it up nicely. Common sense laws and common decency laws don't apply in Utah.
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Doesn't matter. Thanks to Orrin Hatch, the unregulated supplement industry can package 100% sawdust and call it a beneficial supplement for whatever ails you. Utah's supplement industry rivals the Medellin cartel.
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"What about shady MLMs, or door-to-door sales companies with unsavory reputations? Utah is rife with various sorts of white collar crime, and it is not coming out of Ogden, and it is hardly to be considered a counter-culture to Mormonism, since, IMHO, Mormonism is basically a white-collar MLM fraud itself." Yeah, but you're not making the distinction between typical crime and Utah
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You need to understand Ogden history, before you associate it with the rest of Utah. Ogden wasn't your typical Utah, pioneer settled town. Ogden exploded with the Transcontinental railroad. Union Pacific located there and brought in tens of thousands of outside workers, not LDS. Many Chinese.Probably the largest city of a Gentile population in Utah at the time. Ogden has always been a blue colla
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"Why do you think the teacher would know anything about it?" Why? Because the teacher is LDS. You know, the new, Christian mormons. She should know all about Easter and Ash Wednesday-right? Even if she was ignorant, apparently, of the tradition, she should have paused after the kid explained it to her. And then, before making him wipe it off, she should've consulted her superiors. G
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"Anyway, Mormons' ignorance of THE most important Christian tradition is going to make it pretty hard for them to convince the rest of the Christian world that calling themselves "The Church of Jesus Christ" is not just pretense, if not outright blasphemy." Winner, winner-chicken dinner!!!
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Summer, you make some valid points, but I can't let this go; "It might be that the mom grew up in a non-Mormon area and had no idea that the ashes would not be understood." No. Everywhere in the world, except Utah is a non-mormon area. The mom lives in Bountiful and her kid goes to a different church than all the rest of his classmates. The teacher should have acted better. If she
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No, it's not. I just hope "the" church quits their stubbornness and closes down in Russia before some kids really get hurt. This would be a good time to take a hint.
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But how can all Utah teachers learn from this? It's been a story in papers and TV from NY to LA. Newsweek and Yahoo. But, nary a peep from Utah's church approved official newspaper, the Deseret News. That's also embarrassing.
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I'm sure the teacher will study up on Catholicism. I can't wait for when she tells him that he belongs to the Great and Abdominal church and the Whore of the Earth. That should be fun.
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No Shit!
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Can you imagine the response from LDS Inc. law department if a teacher, in another state, made a mormon kid remove his garments in class? The grandfather was right. Not only did the teacher not understand Ash Wednesday, she didn't understand the 1st Amendment. Utah.
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Oh Jeez. Only in Utah would a grade school teacher not know what ash Wednesday is.; http://www.ksla.com/2019/03/07/boy-forced-wipe-ash-wednesday-cross-off-forehead-utah-school/
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I haven't read the book, but I can't see how this guy would've missed RfM. It's gotta be more popular and informative than Reddit.
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