moksha wrote:For the sake of additional visual clarification:
I don't know why should I always associate...
London 2012 Games extended to avoid religious holidays
As part of the London 2012 Olympics "Respect for religion" campaign, no sporting events will take place on any religious holy days. All Sundays will be left empty to appease the Christians, and Fridays and Saturday too because of the Jews and Muslims.
Nordic theologians have asked for Thursday (Thor's day) to be respected, and it is likely that Wednesdays will be added after complaints from Orthodox Christians.
Satanists and other groups are demanding their own days, so it is therefore possible that the London Olympics will have to be crammed into the 52 Monday afternoons of the year.
As Olympics organiser Judas Hepburn said, "The most important thing about the Olympics is that we respect religious traditions, whether that's allowing high-jumpers to wear the burka, or forcing all athletes to attend religion awareness classes. If it takes us all year to finish the Olympics, it will just improve what is going to be the best and most politically correct Olympics ever!"
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
I really don't understand your last post. Are you saying that your poor behavior is not your fault, it's everyone else's fault but yours? Or are you saying that we should ban you, and it's our fault that we didn't do it?
Please help me out here.
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
ldsfaqs wrote:7. Those who actually know Mormonism, contrary to the anti-mormons, know that leaders of the Church through divine revelation have identified certain groups as certainly children of Lehi.
This is amazing, could you please provide the names of some of those leaders who received these particular divine revelations that "have identified certain groups as certainly children of Lehi"?
It seems that due to the entirely disrespectful expectation that ldsfaqs back up his statements with facts, examples and quotes, he has essentially, left the building.....
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
There is more than one way to be a child of some patriarch in the gospel. We know that Christ said God could raise up children to Abraham from the stones of the ground, and those that did the works of Abraham were his children, not necessarily those that claimed those bloodlines. Whether or not Guatemalans are blood-descendent children of Lehi is another issue . . . and, how much of the blood of Lehi do they have to have to qualify? 100%? 50%? The blood of all people the world over has been pretty well mixed by now. Christ called some in Jerusalem "of your father the devil". We all know Lucifer can't have children . . . or can he? And are we one of them? (John 8: 44.)
Do you believe Kimball was telling the truth when he explicitly stated that people he deemed Lamanites were having their skin literlly lighten through righteousness?
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
President Kimball was probably expressing an opinion, which, as far as I know, G.A.'s are allowed to do, even if it's bone-headed and wrong. This kind of thing could, theoretically, be verified scientifically; measure the amount of melanin per sq. millimeter of skin before and after conversion, and see if it actually changes, though, don't some people lighten up with age? Maybe, if we're lucky, you'll lighten up, too!
logjamislds wrote:President Kimball was probably expressing an opinion, which, as far as I know, G.A.'s are allowed to do, even if it's bone-headed and wrong. This kind of thing could, theoretically, be verified scientifically; measure the amount of melanin per sq. millimeter of skin before and after conversion, and see if it actually changes, though, don't some people lighten up with age? Maybe, if we're lucky, you'll lighten up, too!
So do you think Prophet Kimball was bone headed and wrong or do you think that Gods annointed leader was correct?
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
President Kimball was correct..... Someone who joins the Church, is raised in it, spiritually change in their "countenances" which is another way of saying "skin". Anyone who actually has a brain to understand scriptural symbolism knows that the Book of Mormon wasn't generally talking about "literal" skin color. Especially when at some points Lamanites were actually WHITE.
Further, being raised in modernity will have an actual skin color change. Thus, either way, the Prophets and the Book of Mormon are correct.
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