re: Tough week for Mormons

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I couldn’t pull that off. I can’t even get my own wife to suck my dick no more.

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We’ve all been there brother

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stout

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Please point me in a direction for a comprehensive video to date of this entire BAM situation. Thanks.

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Imagine worshiping a religion founded by a 14-year-old

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I think he was 24. I've known many Mormons, some are close friends of mine. They're good people. I've always said Mormons make great neighbors. But yeah, I'd never believed anything from that religion

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Then he tried to tell me that Jesus was the devil's brother and that some spirit came down to Joseph Smith and told him to start this religion. I told him that's not something I'm interested in hearing.

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They were terrible Mormons then, because this is nothing like what the Mormon Church believes. Mormons absolutely are Christians, though with some odd ideas too.

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In 1820, a 14-year-old Joseph Smith, confused by the differing claims of various Christian denominations, prayed to know which church was right. In response to this prayer, known as the First Vision, he recorded that he was visited by God the Father and Jesus Christ, who told him to join none of them.

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A very convenient answer for Joseph Smith, of course. But the very foundation of the Mormon Church goes back to a prayer answered by both God and Jesus.

To understand the Mormons you have to understand what was happening in the country at the time.

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The 1800s were a massive catalyst for new religious movements. Driven by the Second Great Awakening, global exploration, and cultural shifts, several major faiths emerged, including Mormonism (1830), the Bahá'í Faith (1863), Spiritualism (1850s), Seventh-day Adventism (1863), and Christian Science (1879)

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I grew up exposed to the Mormon teachings. And a pretty young age decided it was rather silly. I think there is an advantage to starting off with a rather obviously nonsensical religion. The idea that you were lucky and happened to have been born into the correct religion is pure silliness too.

But as nonsensical as the Mormons are, they definitely are Christians. I find it funny how much the other competing faiths hate them. Probably something to do with their relative membership growth rates. And yeah, if I'm hiring people then I'm going to be hiring as many Mormons as possible.

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Mormonism’s 200 year attempt to ease its way quietly under the great umbrella of the Christian Church, an attempt that has become much more vigorous in the last two decades as American Christians have become, on the whole, more ignorant of Church theology and history, which coincides with the decline of mainstream Protestantism and the rise of emotional Protestantism, reminds me of ULL insisting ESPN call it the University of Louisiana or Louisiana. After further consideration, ULL is closer to being the University of Louisiana than Mormonism is to being a branch of the Church.

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TulaneLSU is like the Michelangelo of message board poasting. PHD dissertations will be written on the corpus of TulaneLSU postings. But this post, this work of art, is truly his sistene chapel. In 500 years men will weep in awe at the effortless genius of this post.

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Well except for the violence and armies and terrorism.

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Well except they actually did slaughter a lot of people when they were establishing out west.

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My fav is the fella who carries giant cross and sets up street preaching at the worst places and times (eg, Bourbon St at 3am on Sat night).

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One night I was on Bourbon St and figured out that fellow’s game…and it has nothing to do with religion, He simply sets up his spot preaching through his bullhorn which drives all of the customers from the businesses on both sides of the street in that immediate area. Soon, a doorman or bouncer will come out and hand him a wad of cash to move. He pulls this same stunt in various locations up and down the street until he runs out of locations.