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Ah yes, the art of wording things carefully so as to make Mormonism seem less weird than it is. I was adept at this as a missionary. Unfortunately, many parts of Mormonism are embarrassing so it requires people to do this to feel normal. Peterson is just doing what is natural given the fact that he ...

There are a lot of behaviors that cannot lead to eternal marriage. Being a celibate gay Mormon is behavior that cannot lead to eternal marriage. is that no longer allowed at BYU? Obviously he didn't mean that, but a fair reading for consistency would demand that yes, there is something implied to b...

huckelberry wrote:Because it represents a direct rejection of current leaderships authority I would imagine.

Bingo! Direct disagreement with top leadership is the worst sin you can commit in Mormonism.

It's a good thing that Joseph Smith had God on his side. I mean, he was such a buffoon that he could barely tie his shoes or walk in a straight line, or even remember his wife's name. It's proof positive that the church is true! God truly loves working through the most incompetent people so he can s...

You blind anti-mormons do not understand how God works. Seems pretty simple to me. You take a man with Narcissistic Personality Disorder, give him infinite power and voila! You have the Mormon version of the God of Abraham. You have to pass all of his absurd and arbitrary loyalty tests and don't yo...

They will announce that in order promote more reverence in sacrament meeting, the maximum tempo for all hymns will be 60bpm.

I specifically called that out in my review of the book, which I think still sits as the top non-faithful review of the book on Goodreads right now. It kind of made me sick that they pinned that on the teen girl in that situation. I tempered my language in the Goodreads review but I did drop the F-b...

So, if the LDS church were to go the way of the Universal Unitarian Church, then you'd go back? Why not just find your local UU Church and forget the LDS church forever? Because it would be a UU church with ~$125B. It would be a UU church that could do a ton more good than the UU church can. It mig...

I'll see your "knowledge" and raise you my knowledge that Joseph Bishop will labor forever in Santa's workshop making toys for all of the good boys and girls.

Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:What happens, existentially, when one passes the sacrament with their left hand?

- Doc

Covenants with God become covenants with Satan?