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How about Thomas Jefferson. His resume is equally impressive if not more so.

Understatement of the year.

This whole story might actually have been impressive if it had appeared in Meridian two weeks BEFORE the earthquake. She has a revelation and believes in it enough that she warns the missionaries but nobody else. After the quake, the Mission President cynically suggests that the people of Chile are ...

Runtu wrote:Some people are just kind of screwed up, I guess.

Dogmatic, authoritarian religions tend to have that effect on people, if history is any guide.

Two possibilities: 1. The killing off of the native populations occurred during the time that the slacker Omni was in charge of the plates and he neglected to write about it; 2. There is a lengthy discussion of the other peoples, with complete explanation about how the DNA of the Jerusalemites would...

I'm saying this as someone who spent a few weeks himself to sleep over not being with a girl that was perfect in every way except for her religious and spiritual life. This, to me, is sad. (((((The Nehor))))). To have given up a perfect mate for the Mormon Fraud is a terrible tragedy, in my view. I...

It's her body. Her life. That's not what the Bible says: 1 Cor. 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? Still, I agree that she didn't have to justify it to her family. I'll take John Locke over the delusi...

You can't aspire to the position of moderator. Nor can the keys of moderatorship be purchased with money. Nay, you must be called to be a moderator as in the days of yore, yea, even by revelation to Dr. Shades from the Adversary.

LifeOnaPlate wrote:I would add I am not saying Meldrum is purposefully lying, or that he is a bad person. He's probably telling it just like he sees it.

Following the Prophets, indeed.

but I never once heard Hinckley commit himself to a specific geography... he was a smart fellow. Mormon doctrine is a very pliable material, and it is shifting slowly toward the apologists. Hinckley did commit himself on the Lamanite question, which by implication entails a commitment to a hemisphe...

But don't you see the same sort of thing in business all the time? Let's assume a nationwide company with thousands of local stores, like Walmart. A local employee works diligently day after day, and notices that one of the basic tenets of the business could be tweaked a little bit and the store wo...