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I'm talking about Joseph Smith, the doctrine and covenants, and the people since then and until now who use both as sources to legitimize abusive forms of polygamy. Meadowchik, you can talk about that as much as you want, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about legitimizing non-abu...

Coercive polygamy is the issue with Mormonism. So you're talking Reb Tevye and Golde versus Tzeitel and Motel. It was wrong for Tevye's and Golde's parents to arrange their marriage? It seemed like it turned out okay in the end. And by the way, I had a bishop tell me who he thought I should marry. ...

Kishkumen, how did the LDS practice of polygamy aggravate inequalities between the genders? I think the math is pretty simple. If I as a husband have access to multiple wives, but my wives only have access to one husband, then those wives are really getting shorted on their access to a spousal part...

On this forum every once in a while someone will mention polygamy in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as if that's a guaranteed way of scoring points against that church. I personally have no desire whatsoever to be married to more women than just my one wife, but if three adults (o...

It's sad that people have to pay so much for things they can have for free. And sad people believe God is so covetous as to require payment.

My very Mormon parents planned my mom's funeral when she was terminally ill. Most of us kids are exmo and what they wanted was for each child to speak and no one else. It was beautiful. With opening and closing hymns and prayers. In their chapel. The bishop did conduct and made remarks but they were...

This could also be answered in relational terms. As a secularist, What kind of marriage can I offer to a prospective spouse that the is better than what I could offer as an LDS? What kind of childhood can I offer to my children? What kind of friendship can I offer to prospective friends? What can I ...

I will posit the opposite as Dan Peterson, and stake out a claim that Christians and Mormons have equal or higher rates of nihilism than atheists do. My rationale? Simple. Christianity and Mormonism are both so rife with existential problems of reality (to name a few: deception/gaslighting, failed ...

Meadowchik, your objection seems to have at its base the meaning of the word "God." What does God mean to you? I may be wrong, but I think the two of us are looking at that word a different way. No, I don't think so. I'm keeping in mind what you said in your thesis about God knowing how to preserve...

Marcus wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 04, 2022 4:08 pm

it makes me think that this is the 'rainy day' that the LDS leaders who are hoarding hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars were referring to.

To pay for lawyers maybe, to mitigate the costs of compensating victims.