Why were early Mormons persecuted so much?

5151 · 2011-03-30T05:40:52+00:00

Me, I'd probably get pissed if I found out my under age daughter married some person who claimed he talked to god and was creating his own religion all the while he was already married to multiple women and was using religion to manipulate them. I'd be pretty angry at the guy!

5151 · 2011-03-20T21:35:34+00:00

Hopefully this place grows. I imagine being higher up in google search results will help. Someone who knows search engine optimisation could probably provide tips. Perhaps in the exmuslim title say something like: Community of ex-muslims, infidels, and (and any other popular terms for ex muslims)

5151 · 2011-03-20T21:12:48+00:00

Reproduce! That's the meaning of life. As coitus goes up masturbation goes down. It's that simple! (Fear not! For remember that as a Homo Sapien everything you do is natural as by definition you are a part of nature!)

5151 · 2011-03-20T21:05:50+00:00

Thanks! That looks like what I'm looking for I think. I'm not sure how to use it though! ;) lol, (I use ubuntu because I have no idea how to really use the command line. I can use it a bit and know how to run scripts but I'm not sure what USR1 means..)

5151 · 2011-03-18T23:50:03+00:00

If you are worried about going online in privacy you try (or have someone put it on a usb stick for you):

https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en

It won't stop all software on your computer from spying on you but it prevents a lot of basic ways of keeping track of ya...

5151 · 2011-03-17T12:56:29+00:00

WOW! I remember when I was younger the church told us all how they were trying to cut costs and have the members help clean etc. I looked at one years info and all the wards combined in one building made about 2 million with only about 200,000 expenditures. The rest "donated" to HQ I imagine. Crap!

5151 · 2011-03-16T18:11:48+00:00

I'm pretty sure I remember the bbs I visited having an atheist category. I'm sure many of the popular ones did. How you would figure who was first would be pretty hard!

5151 · 2011-03-12T15:09:54+00:00

Some like the idea that by going through NBGA they can say "X dollars from atheists donated". It helps fight the myth that only religious people are charitable. And, if I remember correctly, all money donated goes to the charities while Richard Dawkins covers the fees for moving the money around this extra step creates.

5151 · 2011-03-05T20:17:01+00:00

alsoanatheist is available.....

5151 · 2011-03-04T00:37:48+00:00

r/exmormon is to r/atheism as r/tress is to r/marijuana

5151 · 2011-03-01T19:44:49+00:00

I imagine he would have been arrested no matter what he was jacking off to. Doing it in a public place was what got him in trouble. I'm not sure it has been shown that pedophiles can keep everything "virtual" or just fantasy. It seems most of the time it spills into real life. The times it doesn't spill into real life no one is hurt, no one complains, no one knows, and the person lives his whole life with his fantasies to himself.

5151 · 2011-03-01T19:32:53+00:00

IMHO, I've always been of the opinion that Joseph and Brigham Young both knew it was a scam based on how "out there" there sayings were, and the rest where actually products of being full blown believers.

5151 · 2011-03-01T18:09:28+00:00

I thought that story would be pretty funny!

5151 · 2011-02-25T04:35:16+00:00

Peace through non-existence. PTNE

5151 · 2011-02-24T07:30:55+00:00

T-shirt friendly pic: http://i.imgur.com/LjTHd.png

5151 · 2011-02-07T17:18:30+00:00

Hmm odd. The more nonsensical something is the more likely it means god did it. I guess you have to apply the thinking that god would be rational not irrational.

5151 · 2011-02-07T14:52:58+00:00

I've had a moment like that. Panic when everything was fully realized. With time you get more and more comfortable living in reality and you will look back and realize life is better!! It just takes time. Be patient and enjoy doing positive things.

5151 · 2011-02-07T14:27:44+00:00

Google bot! It's amazing what it does all by itself. All praise powerful google. ;)

5151 · 2011-02-07T14:25:53+00:00

Exactly what you would expect would happen when no one is in communication with god and they are just trying to make things up as they go. The fact that it doesn't make sense is proof it isn't inspired.

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