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Do people have free will in how they respond to criticism or a bit of raillery? Or are they programmed into predictable responses? A fellow I know compulsively sorts everyone online into either believers in a 'creator God,' or hopelessly nihilistic atheists. This same fellow has a seeming inability...

Does the 7 year old child of Mormon parents in Utah really have a free will choice about being baptised at 8 years old? Does the born-in-the-the church married man, with a Mormon spouse, Mormon parents, a Mormon boss at work, and a social group entirely consisting of Mormons, have a free will choic...

Does the 7 year old child of Mormon parents in Utah really have a free will choice about being baptised at 8 years old? Does the born-in-the-the church married man, with a Mormon spouse, Mormon parents, a Mormon boss at work, and a social group entirely consisting of Mormons, have a free will choice...

Do you think that people in Utah would find it harder to leave the church because it is all around them than a person elsewhere without that energy? Yes. In Utah it’s likely that your entire family, all your friends, and the place where you work is heavily Mormon. Leaving the Church in that circums...

Elder Pearson: You’ve got roughly 2.2 million members of the church here. You’ve got some of the most active members in the church here. We have 645, soon to be 650, stakes in Utah. So there’s a tremendous amount of strength in Utah. I’m working with some of the strongest membership of the church. ...

Police noted in the arrest report obtained by KSL.com that Hernandez had been serving as a missionary and “does not have any family, support system, or ties within Utah. If released he will likely return to his home state of California.” https://www.deseret.com/faith/2024/05/14/latter-day-saint-mis...

I honestly don't believe the church is the problem. I think people who are capable of such crimes have this nature in their core. But I do know people like to take opportunities to have a poke at the church. Where I see the culpability of the church in these kinds of things is that they promote, ve...

Does the prophet look prospective missionaries in the eye? I thought it was done by mail. The Apostles take turns in front of a computer screen with an image of each Missionary in front of them. They then receive divine revelation and inspiration about that missionary and about where to assign them...

Robert Sapolsky is one of the most revered scientists alive today. He made his name from his work studying wild baboons in Kenya, unpicking how their complex social lives lead to stress and how that affects their health. His most recent focus, however, has been on something rather different – a boo...

Do we really blame the church for the choices of this man? There are plenty of missionaries who don't find themselves wanting to rape women. I think we risk not holding him entirely accountable for his behaviour if we give him excuses and blame the church. We all know that rape is wrong. The statem...