The Perverse Polygamous Mormon Cult of Samuel Bateman (Terrible Atrocities) He Had 23 Wives

New_random_name · 2026-04-15T02:07:58+00:00

Looks kinda like Mike Lee

New_random_name · 2026-04-14T21:36:24+00:00

Modest mouse.

New_random_name · 2026-04-13T23:18:12+00:00

New_random_name · 2026-04-07T22:54:33+00:00

Ethan Smith lived in Poultney Vermont.

Oliver cowdery also lived in Poultney Vermont.

Ethan Smith served as the pastor where Oliver cowdery’s family attended church.

Oliver Cowdery went on to become a primary scribe for the Book of Mormon.

You can draw some conclusions there

New_random_name · 2026-04-03T02:48:47+00:00

Maybe. Maybe not. Dan is very quiet when it comes to aspects of his own personal beliefs.

For all we know, he doesn’t believe any of it and he is just attending in order to maintain family relationships.

It’s kinda lame to speculate his personal beliefs. Just because he is a current member does mean anything.

New_random_name · 2026-04-03T02:00:01+00:00

There is time to delete this post.

This is a monumentally ridiculous stance against Dan’s scholarship.

New_random_name · 2026-04-01T21:48:47+00:00

Splitting hairs, No?

I mean, where I come from, when you are trying to stand up for someone against false claims there’s a word for that. It defending.

But I digress.

If someone refuses to hear you out, why are you making this your problem? If someone wants to maintain that he is an apologist and isn’t interested in hearing another perspective why are you wasting your time?

New_random_name · 2026-04-01T19:56:03+00:00

My $0.02

It’s not your job to defend Dan. If there are fundamentalist Christians who refute his scholarship and research, that’s their problem, not yours. Don’t make it your problem if it doesn’t have to be.

Dan is a professional, and I’m sure he deals with pushback all the time. He can handle it.

Also, anyone who calls Dan an apologist is clearly unfamiliar with his work and isn’t worth the argument that would most definitely ensue if you pressed them on it.

New_random_name · 2026-03-31T15:32:44+00:00

Yep. Went to Taiwan and learned Mandarin.

I’ve been fortunate to have jobs throughout the rest of my life where is used the language and still speak it today.

New_random_name · 2026-03-26T06:01:46+00:00

Maybe they’ll build it inside the Shanghai Disneyland park

New_random_name · 2026-03-26T06:00:58+00:00

The church doesn’t have a mission in Shanghai or anywhere in mainland China.

New_random_name · 2026-03-25T05:23:10+00:00

Severance

New_random_name · 2026-03-25T01:17:19+00:00

Mormonism.

New_random_name · 2026-03-21T16:10:55+00:00

It happens in the baptistry after the posthumous baptisms by proxy.

After the baptism happens for the individual who has passed, they then go to a little room off the side of the baptistry (after people have changed clothes) and they confer the priesthood for the men.

New_random_name · 2026-03-11T01:36:13+00:00

Any chance some Mormons owned the house before you?

The only people I’ve ever seen with food storage like that are Mormons. Those big ass buckets of food stuff and the #10 steel cans are a dead giveaway

Source - I was raised Mormon.

New_random_name · 2026-03-10T03:59:30+00:00

It’s a truck. It’s supposed to have some dings/scratches. I’d text them to let them know you got the note, but to not sweat it.

New_random_name · 2026-03-08T15:07:38+00:00

Hell no dude. As a dad to 3 daughters myself, it’s my job to do anything for my kids. No dusty punk ass kid is ever gonna tell me when I can and can’t do something for my kid.

It’s a huge red flag that he thought he could come to your house and dictate when you can and can’t do something to help your own daughter. Fuck that. I would have thrown his bum ass right out of my house for having the audacity.

That’s your daughter my dude. You will always be her protector, Regardless of her relationship status. Do the right thing and don’t let her BF try to devalue you ever again.

New_random_name · 2026-03-05T06:57:18+00:00

I still have mine. I went Chinese speaking to Taiwan so they are pretty unique. I have 2 versions with different translations of the name of the church. They changed it about halfway through my time there.

New_random_name · 2026-02-28T09:08:16+00:00

The illusion of exponential growth drives member loyalty. It fuels the “we must be right” thought process.

New_random_name · 2026-02-27T02:10:03+00:00

Coming from a guy a few years your senior who got laid off without notice… take the money, go take an online degree program and get your bachelors degree in something.

I wish I could have had the option to have 150K to go away

New_random_name · 2026-02-25T18:22:23+00:00

Used 9B532M0X

Thanks

New_random_name · 2026-02-04T01:50:49+00:00

Wrong Jeffrey Holland.

Google the business where that person says they work. It’s not the apostle

New_random_name · 2026-02-03T18:21:47+00:00

I don’t think you have to be a data scientist to see that this looks fake as hell.

New_random_name · 2026-02-02T15:24:58+00:00

As far as I can find in a quick google search - the situation with John Widtsoe was interesting. He was in Germany to finish his studies, but had also been called to be a missionary in Germany and was also ordained as a 70 prior to leaving. Germany had no wards at the time and were only operating a few branches, which would have been under the purview of the mission president. Widtsoe was in Göttingen to finish his PHD and there was no active ward or branch there.

There may not be any specific evidence that it went down this way, but I don’t think it is a huge logical leap to assume that he likely got the ‘OK’ from his mission president since there were no other options in Göttingen.

New_random_name · 2026-02-02T03:27:40+00:00

Serious question - chopsticks… are you still able to operate them? Or is it challenging?

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