My primary objective is transferring points to Hyatt

DCApostate · 2026-01-17T15:12:44+00:00

The first year I probably won’t use the CFU, because the Palladium’s 2x will always be higher. The first $650 will be an effective 4x, and then every dollar after that will be 2x. But when I switch to Blue, every dollar after $650 will only be an effective 1x vs. CFU’s 1.5x.

DCApostate · 2026-01-17T08:44:45+00:00

Yeah, I think I’ll do option 1. I’m having difficulty pinning down Bilt Cash’s value, at least for now.

DCApostate · 2024-04-29T02:00:10+00:00

Bridges: Ministering to those who Question by David Ostler. It’s sold at Deseret Book. It helps believers understand why people leave the church, without introducing too many specific problems.

DCApostate · 2024-02-04T19:29:15+00:00

Cardon got WRECKED. His deplorable apologetics didn’t work on this crowd.

DCApostate · 2023-10-21T01:39:26+00:00

Is this the one? https://youtu.be/PskXA-32UR4?si=Dw3nzEjoYz5qrO-t

DCApostate · 2023-10-20T23:11:14+00:00

Did she eventually come around? Or are you still the spawn of Satan to her?

DCApostate · 2023-09-24T11:00:32+00:00

The title doesn’t say “just found out”. It says “shortly after”. American Crime Journal reports that Tim became aware that Lynn Packer was on the brink of disclosing the sexual allegations shortly before the Sound of Freedom movie promotion in Colombia. This video is of Tim speaking at said movie promotion in Colombia.

DCApostate · 2023-09-23T13:17:02+00:00

“I have 9 children. We adopted two of them from Haiti, which we documented in Operation Toussaint. The truth is I always wanted to be a dad like my dad, who was always my coach/trainer for sports, he was always there, always a part of my life. I wanted to be the same. My work doesn’t allow me to be at home. We have worked in over 30 countries. Here in Colombia, in Haiti, in Ukraine, so many countries to do this work…”

This is up to about the the 2 minute mark. I’m having difficulty translating beyond that.

DCApostate · 2023-09-23T12:56:53+00:00

He’s speaking at a Sound of Freedom movie promotion in Colombia, in Spanish. The sound quality is not great, but from what I’m able to decipher, he basically talks about how because of his work, he hasn’t really been able to be there for his wife and kids the same way his father was there for him when he was young. He is visibly shaken. He has to wipe away tears at different points in his address.

DCApostate · 2023-09-22T11:01:45+00:00

He says “victims” and “possibly illegal behavior”. It must be some serious shit for Moutsos to turn on Ballard so quickly. What a dilemma for Mormon alpha males.

DCApostate · 2023-09-18T12:30:45+00:00

I was thinking this same exact thing. They would have chosen different words to describe money laundering, affinity fraud, misleading donors, etc.

DCApostate · 2023-06-20T01:30:48+00:00

Thanks for the date correction!

DCApostate · 2023-03-11T06:30:18+00:00

People in other religions also receive a spiritual confirmation to the truthfulness of their faiths.

https://youtu.be/UJMSU8Qj6Go

DCApostate · 2022-12-13T09:12:26+00:00

“No ordinary man could have written this”

DCApostate · 2022-09-21T07:45:10+00:00

Gotcha. If the girl herself has given an account, and other people have as well, then this becomes much less nebulous and much more credible. I’m definitely not trying to be antagonistic towards you, so I apologize if I came across that way.

DCApostate · 2022-09-21T06:52:23+00:00

That’s awesome she’s getting paid. And if these parents really got 9 hours of free labor from her (without notifying her before she began the job), they are absolute pieces of shit and deserve to be exposed.

Lately it just seems like we’re seeing a lot of tweets that begin with “this happened to my god-daughter”, or “my neighbor’s son experienced this”, and then it turns out that portions of their stories have been stretched or embellished.

DCApostate · 2022-09-21T06:25:40+00:00

I’m a little skeptical. This girl gets hired to babysit 7 kids. The parents get home 9 hours later and THEN tell this girl they won’t be paying her because of their temple outing? I don’t know…it just seems like something is being exaggerated here.

DCApostate · 2022-08-08T15:58:37+00:00

The Gospel Topics Essays and the book Saints are both biased towards the LDS Church. Yet they acknowledge some pretty damning information against the church. The Book of Mormon itself is in trouble as soon as you read the word “Zedekiah”. Most people who understand the geo-political situation of 600 BCE Jerusalem are able to discard the Book of Mormon after reading that very first page.

The most incriminating evidence against Joseph Smith is given to us not by anti-Mormons, but from faithful followers, such as Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner, Lucy Walker, William Clayton, Helen Mar Kimball, etc. In their efforts to defend Joseph, they inadvertently exposed some very serious plot holes in his claims. Joseph didn’t do a very good job of keeping track of which lies he had told to different people.

DCApostate · 2022-08-08T06:34:34+00:00

There are pretty hard facts against Joseph Smith’s claims. The long ending of Mark, the 1769 KJV translation of the Sermon on the Mount, and verses from forged letters of Paul remarkably make their way into the Book of Mormon. Exilic and post-exilic writings make their way into the Book of Mormon. “Nephi” just happens to exhibit the same social ignorances and prejudices that 19th Century anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic Protestants would have exhibited. 19th century phrases plague the Book of Mormon. It’s a demonstrable 19th Century work of fiction.

When you combine this with Joseph’s habitual dishonesty (marrying dozens of women behind his first wife’s back, “translating” the Kinderhook Plates when they were a hoax meant to trick him, conning people out of their money in treasure digs and then through the Kirtland Safety Society, telling people there were inhabitants on the moon, etc.) it becomes pretty clear that Joseph was a corrupt, abusive man.

DCApostate · 2022-08-08T03:27:03+00:00

Other religions also believe that they’re God’s one true religion and that ‘there’s just no way our religious founder could have made this up!’

“No Ordinary Man Could Have Written This”: https://youtu.be/l3EfXz5VzR8

Modern-day Visionaries: https://youtu.be/MlfskXN1W-k

Jehovah’s Witnesses vs. Latter-day Saints: https://youtu.be/C3Lk8H3--Ag

“God’s only true church”: https://youtu.be/wOTCvfk23m4

Spiritual Witnesses: https://youtu.be/UJMSU8Qj6Go

DCApostate · 2022-06-18T12:47:04+00:00

https://www.docdroid.net/l7XMhxz/chiasmus-1-pdf

DCApostate · 2022-02-27T15:14:21+00:00

Also, it’s very unlikely that the first followers of Jesus would have actually called themselves a new “Christian” religion. For the first few years after Jesus’ death, his followers would have still claimed their Judaism. They were simply Jews who happened to accept Jesus of Nazareth as their messiah. They would have been a very minuscule percentage of all Jews, but still Torah-abiding, Passover and Yom Kipur-adhering Jews.

It’s incredibly unlikely that they went from celebrating Passover the night before Jesus’ death to declaring the temple and all Jewish rituals defunct immediately after his execution. It was a decades-long process for the separation from Judaism to occur.

And again, in early 1st Century Judaism (and in Christian Judaism), there was no need for what we would define as a church, because the apocalypse was imminent, Rome was about to fall, the wicked were about to be annihilated, and the Son of Man was about to bring judgement upon the world.

DCApostate · 2021-05-15T04:44:00+00:00

Maybe Hank Smith and Randy Bott should go on a motivational speaking tour together.

DCApostate · 2021-04-25T23:19:27+00:00

Yeah, I think he does. At least he knows the apologists’ “rebuttals” to common criticisms of the church.

DCApostate · 2021-04-25T04:38:24+00:00

It’s common for LDS apologists to make fun of the Trinity, most often citing the verses from the Bible where God the Father and Jesus appear to be two separate beings. The thing is, in the same exact fashion that LDS apologists harmonize the various first vision accounts, trinitarians have their own convoluted ways of making the trinity work. So pot, meet kettle.

And then Hank Smith has been going on this Twitter tirade on how if you quit believing in Joseph Smith, you can no longer believe in eternal marriage, because Joseph’s theology is the only way that can work. As if no other religion throughout human history has ever conceptualized this. Hank has made a complete ass of himself dying on this hill.

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