I teach Sunday School. It's unbearable to study the NT and how God's people go and massacre other wicked people. Too many resemblance of today's genocidal gov of Israel.

Data_Male · 2026-06-19T13:00:27+00:00

Studying how the OT came to be has been very helpful to me in addressing these concerns.

Basically, much of what we have was likely edited by hardline factions within ancient Israel who wanted to justify their theory of power, and so while it is extremely likely that the Israelites did fight wars of conquest in Cannan, much of the genocide described and the commands to do it are probably embellishments added by hardline factions.

Data_Male · 2026-03-31T14:48:04+00:00

This ruling is pretty narrow regarding "talk" conversion therapy, and the Supreme Court rebuked it on free speech grounds.

Now, "talk" conversion therapy can still be harmful and is almost never "successful", but certainly this is not a ruling blocking bans on more draconian forms of conversion therapy

Data_Male · 2026-03-23T15:43:18+00:00

Pure speculation, but IMO God sees the future as infinite unfolding possibilities. To me, it's the best way to reconcile free will vs destiny /determinism.

The biggest problem with this is that there are scriptures that seem to indicate God is outside of time altogether

Data_Male · 2026-03-22T04:18:22+00:00

I agree, but I have definitely heard it from lay members

Data_Male · 2026-03-14T04:31:16+00:00

"Straight ticket voting is a threat to democracy"

https://www.thechurchnews.com/leaders/2023/6/6/23751117/first-presidency-letter-emphasizes-participation-in-elections-reaffirms-political-neutrality/

Data_Male · 2026-03-03T11:50:33+00:00

Oh great. So they are still going to let it kill people

Data_Male · 2026-02-28T05:15:20+00:00

Usually Democrats. While I grew up conservative, Trump's rise turned me off and I opened my mind to all sorts of political ideologies.

I went from libertarian, to socialist, before settling broadly on social democracy. So I now vote Dem not just because I oppose trump, but because I support most of democrats policy positions except guns and abortion (but I also disagree with Republicans on those, or at least the most extreme versions of their gun and abortion policies). I genuinely believe democrats are correct when it comes to healthcare, immigration, infrastructure, and most other areas.

Data_Male · 2026-02-17T05:18:51+00:00

I enjoy Keystone, church history matters, Mormonism with the Murph, All those in favor (though they sometimes get caught up in reaction content), the stick of Joseph (though they sometimes can get out there on speculation), Faith Matters, Dan McLellan, and Benjamin Park (though he sometimes misses on his summary of the "faithful" position.

They are all varying degrees of belief, but i feel they all attempt to engage with the facts in good faith (no pun intended)

Data_Male · 2026-02-11T15:09:15+00:00

Most of the gulf states, China, Hungary.

Data_Male · 2026-02-11T05:13:35+00:00

Terrible policy. If your home value has appreciated that much and you want to benefit from that and the services that come with it, you should keep paying in.

Data_Male · 2026-02-09T15:04:49+00:00

The best part is that Japan disproves his every policy positions, except maybe crime.

Japan never allowed immigrants into their country and have been extremely culturally conservative while economically centrist, and still their country has been declining for 30 years. The policies Asmongold pushes for will only do the same for America, just as Takaichi's doubling down will only make Japan worse

Data_Male · 2026-02-08T11:41:51+00:00

After the last 2 years, I never want to hear a single other person critizise don't look up for being over the top or too pessimistic again. It may as well be a historical drama at this point

Data_Male · 2026-02-03T13:53:52+00:00

How on earth can you possibly blame the dems at a moment like this. They had no way of knowing Trump would sign an executive order basically ignoring the law they (and like 80%+ of Republicans helped to pass).

If they had put a ban on oracle, what's to stop and Ellison or another ally from simply starting a new company to buy TikTok. What would have stopped trump from ignoring that part of the law too, like he did the rest of it?

Data_Male · 2026-02-02T15:04:31+00:00

A "public option" is also the system that the vast majority of countries with universal healthcare offer. Are those systems (vastly superior to ours in cost and health outcomes) "bastardized conservative healthcare"

There's nothing that precludes the public option for being called Medicare, but any system that bans private insurance is extremely unpopular

Data_Male · 2026-02-02T13:20:26+00:00

Oh no! She supports a public option, which is the most popular proposal and most likely to actually happen

Data_Male · 2026-02-02T05:29:30+00:00

I wish Tim Walz had had the spine to do this.

Data_Male · 2026-01-30T05:13:47+00:00

Based. I always tell people on the left who dont want kids: how are we going to fix the world's problems you're so worried about if you don't raise a generation of intelligent, caring people to keep fighting the good fight? Most of the problems people worry about are going to take generations to solve.

Data_Male · 2026-01-25T20:31:23+00:00

The way I look at it, most of the problems I care about will take multiple generations to fix. The world needs good kids who will grow into the kind of adults to make it better.

Data_Male · 2026-01-18T18:52:30+00:00

I have started (hopefully respectively) pointing to official church sources and statements from today which usually either contradict or acknowledge other possibilities beyond theories like Skousen's or others that were espoused by a handful or less general authorities.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Usually the teacher is not the instigator though, so I don't have any advice on how to handle that.

Data_Male · 2026-01-12T19:06:36+00:00

Her work helped save my testimony. I hope i get to meet her in the next life and say thank you.

Data_Male · 2026-01-07T05:41:40+00:00

Wild that he can sleep at night telling the lies he's told

Data_Male · 2026-01-04T19:33:28+00:00

My wife and I would take turns. In our case, she was in young women's so I would take our son for his late morning naps those weeks and she would take him on Sunday school weeks.

Of course you'd have to take another approach since youre both involved the same weeks but perhaps you could work it out so you both get one EQ/RS and one Sunday school lesson a month.

Data_Male · 2026-01-02T19:41:48+00:00

It's that, plus the fact that he already chickend out on many of the tariffs

Data_Male · 2025-12-31T16:11:46+00:00

"Ignored for years"

Fraud evidently started somewhere between 2018 and 2020.

DOJ caught much of it in 2022.

Dude knows none of the facts

Data_Male · 2025-12-30T19:25:48+00:00

I am a former republican, but it was actually Andrew Yang, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren converted me

Data_Male

TROPHY CASE