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The Good Samaritan did not go chasing after the robbers to get them to repent and leave the man on the roadside to die. The Good Samaritan saw to the injured man. And he let God see to the sinner. The church does it the other way around. They only care about the repentance of the sinner and leave ...

https://mormonfaq.com/files/2009/09/joseph-smith-translate-book-mormon.jpg Apart from the obvious reason, that it's mythology, this could not have happened. One of the few things we know about the gold plates it that they couldn't be seen by anyone (except in two specified and highly controlled ...

This is truly disturbing. How many others are there that we'll never hear about? The stupid thing is that if the church had just obeyed the law and reported the first incident, and if they had focused on helping the victims and getting mental health attention for the perpetrator so much of this ...

The tariffs will eat up any profit my daughter's family business makes. They won't be able to pay the 120% tariffs and customers almost certainly won't pay twice the price for their product. I am mad. :evil: The tariffs will put them out of business. That's terrible, Deacon. This must be happening ...

Hi everybody! I just popped in to leave this: :D I only watched Michael Strong's talk, because he's my neighbor's son. I was surprised he told the story about killing someone on his mission. It all turned out just dandy though, the church got him out of jail and gave the widow $25K. Money is always ...

https://testimoniesofotherfaiths.blogspot.com/?m=1 This site has a number of testimonies written down by the faithful of many religions. Seems Mormons don't have a monopoly on"the spirit", whatever it is. That's a great resource. I read some of the Pentecostal testimonies and was struck by how much ...

What did you give him for his birthday/church organization day?

How did Emma Smith feel about Fanny Alger after she caught her in the barn with Joseph?

Same thing, except that the news being invented by the Trump regime is much nastier and far more dangerous.

Aesop has too many talking animals. The Bible allows for snakes and donkeys, but ants and foxes? No way.

There is only one true god. His name is Zardoz, and Sean Connery is his prophet.

What do you want to bet that they will NOT talk about the constitution hanging by a thread.

If I use the Bible to define what a god-like person would be like, I'd have to say it would be someone who is temperamental, jealous, spiteful, and who is totally down with slavery and genocide.

If they gave homeless people a custodial job, they would be giving them dignity, but nooooooooo..., Are you kidding? They refuse to even let them come indoors on sub-zero winter nights to stave off frostbite. I don't know if any of you attended the big church Christmas concert the year they chose ...

Which is worse, a US president who imposes massive tariffs while being too stupid to understand how they actually work, or a US president who knows how they work but lies about it?

Why are ye so blind Brothers and Sisters? God WAS poor, but now he is RICH. Mormon God has $265 billion at his command... Why is it that in a time when there is no financial barrier to publishing books of world-saving new scripture, our prophets can't seem to come up with anything better than ...

This George Carlin clip came to mind. I think it sums up the question of Joseph and money: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GoYyiNRtMEE&pp=ygUWZ2VvcmdlIGNhcmxpbiByZWxpZ2lvbg%3D%3D I can honestly say those two minutes of comedy pulled my head out of my own religious orifice enough to make my ...

It's probably going to end up being Roko's Basilisk. https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-rokos-basilisk-2014-8 Fascinating. It also reminds me a bit of Harlan Ellison's I have No Mouth and I Must Scream. The article also identifies possible potential outcomes of the human threat that is causing ...

There's a lot of fear around the idea that AI will become sentient and rule over us. Considering how well humans are doing lately, I for one am cheering for this to happen. The caveat is that the new AI despot is a benevolent tyrant. It roots out corruption and eliminates it in ways that actually ...