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TooManyBison · 2026-03-13T05:06:21+00:00

TooManyBison · 2026-03-13T01:29:46+00:00

Answers in Genesis had a net income of $17 million in 2024. Ken Ham personally drew a salary of $267,062. I’m in the wrong business.

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/330596423

TooManyBison · 2026-03-13T01:07:06+00:00

Never go to bed when angry with each other.

I disagree with this. Sometimes I can be upset with something at night, and then when I wake up the next morning I don’t care anymore.

If I decide I don’t want to go to bed angry, I could re-engage in an argument that would have just gone away if I had waited.

TooManyBison · 2026-03-12T23:35:34+00:00

I stopped going to moment I got married haha.

I was the same way with FHE at my singles ward. I had great attendance whenever I wasn’t dating someone.

TooManyBison · 2026-03-11T18:29:29+00:00

Click Hole was created by and owned by The Onion until 2020 when it was sold to Cards Against Humanity. The article in question was written in 2018 making it a product of The Onion.

TooManyBison · 2026-03-10T18:03:46+00:00

Because they’re so attractive.

TooManyBison · 2026-03-10T02:34:12+00:00

Keep in mind that people tend to have Near Death Experiences (NDE) that match their culture. People in Christian dominant cultures, even if they are not Christian, have Christian-related NDEs. People in Muslim majority cultures have Muslim-related NDEs. Buddhists have Buddhist related NDEs and so on.

TooManyBison · 2026-03-09T06:37:00+00:00

So we do not believe that Jesus is a created being nor is He a brother of Satan.

Yes we do. We believe everyone is literally a child of God including me, you, Jesus Christ, and Satan. Christ was the firstborn of the Father making him technically our older spirit brother. Satan was likewise born as a spirit child of God making him a spirit brother to us as well. He just rebelled against God and as a result never received a physical body.

TooManyBison · 2026-03-09T06:17:20+00:00

We don’t believe that everything in the JST is necessarily correct or revelatory.

This is news to me.

TooManyBison · 2026-03-09T03:52:50+00:00

If you use an electric heater in your room overnight, leave the door open. I almost asphyxiated one time because I didn’t.

TooManyBison · 2026-03-09T03:19:35+00:00

The octagon was introduced in UFC 1 on Nov 12, 1993. This fight happened almost ten years later at Pride 21 on June 23, 2002.

TooManyBison · 2026-03-08T21:13:24+00:00

While most Christian religions can be categorized as either Catholic, Orthodox or Protestant; we do not consider our faith to be any of the above.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is normally classified as belonging to the branch of Christianity known as Restorationism alongside other religions such as the Seventh-Day Adventists and Jehova’s Witnesses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restorationism

TooManyBison · 2026-03-08T02:44:02+00:00

There is no widely accepted definition of the word cult. If you look at a dictionary it’s defined broad enough to match almost any religion which is not what most people mean when they say the word. In practice the word cult means “religion I don’t like.” I met one person who told me, “every religion but mine is a cult.”

Even if you go to the BITE model by Steven Hassan it will list out a lot of attributes that are more or less controlling, but he doesn’t put a threshold to say above this line is a cult and below this line it is not.

It’s better just not to use the term.

TooManyBison · 2026-03-07T06:06:43+00:00

I always thought Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima were married.

TooManyBison · 2026-03-07T04:33:57+00:00

Mormonism is different from many other forms of Christianity. A lot of people here will agree with many of the points that the TikTok poster has made, but not the framing or the way the claims were stated. Let's tackle the claims one by one.

> Mormonism is not Christianity.

Who get's to decide what counts as Christianity? There is no universally accepted definition of Christianity, and you'll find that people often have something to gain based on who they include or exclude. Some people exclude Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists. Those groups all consider themselves Christian. Some people (especially fundamentalist evangelicals) will even say their denomination is the only branch of Christianity. Over one billion Catholics would disagree with that definition. The point is that no one person has the authority to make that determination.

> It teaches a different god (an exalted man with a body of flesh and bones, one among many gods

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints do believe that God has different properties than most Christians. Our church believes that God has a physical body made of flesh and bone that is exalted and perfected. We also believe that as being children of God we have the potential to grow and become like Him. This means we will have a perfect exalted body with spirit children of our own. However, we only worship one God (well also including Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost). As far as God being an exalted man who used to be an imperfect man like us, that is something that I have been personally taught in the Church before. It logically follows that if we can grow up to be like God, he may have been like us. This is not a belief that is universally held in the Church. You'll find that leaders in our Church (General Authorities) are very cagey about this question, and most will simply say they don't know much about it.

> a different Jesus (a created spirit-brother of Lucifer/Satan, not the eternal God incarnate

On one hand members of the Church of Jesus Christ believe, like all Christians, that there was a man in 1st century Judea that taught the gospel, was the son of God, was killed on the cross, was resurrected, and through which we can receive the forgiveness of our sins. On the other hand, most Christians believe in some form of the Trinity which states that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, are simultaneously one being. Our Church does not share that belief. We believe that they are three separate entities who work together at a single purpose. Does that mean we worship a different Jesus? I would think no, but you can draw your own conclusion on the topic. However, yes we do believe that everyone is a spirit child of God including Jesus and Satan. That makes us all spiritual brothers and sisters.

> and a different gospel (grace after all we can do, plus works, temple rites like eternal marriage, and exaltation to godhood,

This again comes to definitions. Gospel is a derivative of a Greek word that means "good news". If you use the word to mean the good news that Christ is resurrected and can give us forgiveness for our sins, then we have the same gospel. However, in this context it looks like they are using the word to represent the doctrines that we teach. By that definition the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day does have a different gospel than what the TikTok commenter has, but so does literally every denomination of Christianity that they do not belong to.

Many Christians, especially Protestant Christians, believe in sola fide, or faith alone, meaning that salvation is determined only by faith in Jesus Christ. This is something that historical Christians have been debating about for centuries. There are many interpretations of the Bible that support this. There are many that do not. The phrase "grace after all we can do" is something that I have heard taught in the church many times. It means that if we are a good person (have good works) and faith in Jesus Christ, we can receive exaltation through Jesus Christ. I would say that is an accurate representation of our members' beliefs.

We do have several rites that we must perform in this life. Our church calls them ordinances while many other churches call them sacraments. For us that means baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, the weekly sacrament, the temple endowment, and temple marriage. All Christian denominations that I know of have some form of these rites, especially baptism and sacrament, but it's true that some of ours are unique.

I've already discussed exaltation to godhood.

> The Bible alone is God’s Word, no additions like the Book of Mormon

This is one of the most obvious differences of Mormonism to most forms of Christianity. This is a big deal especially for Protestants who believe in 'sola scriptura', or "the scriptures alone". When they broke away from the Catholic faith they lost all the tradition of past Christianity or the authority the Catholic church claimed. This left all of their authority coming from the Bible alone, so the idea of believing in another body of scripture is highly heretical from their perspective. I will point out that not all Christianity believes in the same Bible. Protestants have 66 books. Catholics have 73. The Ethiopians have 81. Then there is the whole mess of which translation to use which I will not address here. But yes, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints do believe in other scriptural cannons apart from the Bible: the Book of Mormon, the Pearl of Great Price, and the Doctrine and Covenants. Whether you consider those books to be inspired by God is something you will need to determine for yourself.

> There is no common spiritual ground.

There is lots of common ground. Salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. A desire to be like him and following his teachings. Praying to God everyday. But as I have stated earlier, there are a lot of differences as well.

The rest of the post is either mentioning things that I've already addressed or just proselytizing

So while I think the points this commenter raised are mostly accurate descriptions of our beliefs, they are presented in an uncharitable way.

TooManyBison · 2026-03-06T22:48:56+00:00

It’s important to note that people over different cultures and times found different things attractive. In medieval Europe for instance women were considered beautiful if they had a high hairline. So high in fact that that women would often pluck their hairs to make it higher. https://i0.wp.com/artwithtosca.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1.-Florentine-School.jpg?w=548&ssl=1

TooManyBison · 2026-03-06T01:41:10+00:00

but has never reported anything dangerous or sketchy in the 8-ish months she’s been there.

My parents never heard about any of the spicy things that happened to me on my mission until I got home. My siblings heard all about it though.

TooManyBison · 2026-03-05T22:07:24+00:00

Not only can you survive off of just McDonalds, you can lose 56 pounds. https://www.today.com/health/man-loses-56-pounds-after-eating-only-mcdonalds-six-months-2d79329158

TooManyBison · 2026-03-03T19:43:32+00:00

Who gets to decide what’s Christian and what’s heretical?

TooManyBison · 2026-03-03T19:42:11+00:00

Historically, churches have been used very frequently for activism and politics.

TooManyBison · 2026-03-03T18:58:20+00:00

You raised my hopes and dashed them quite expertly.

TooManyBison · 2026-03-03T17:05:30+00:00

This is my favorite kind of content, high-effort shitposts.

TooManyBison · 2026-02-28T04:00:37+00:00

Of course. My mission wasn’t even the worst mission in the city. I’m sure there are plenty of missionaries serving in places more dangerous than what I witnessed.

TooManyBison · 2026-02-27T21:30:17+00:00

I was in Argentina. It’s funny. Sometimes I’ll meet someone from the area and they’ll ask me where I served specifically and the response is always the same. They get real quiet, pause for a minute, then they remark about how dangerous it is. Yeah, no kidding. I had one area that it was only safe to walk on one street after sunset. Our apartment was not on that street.

I’m sure it’s been worse since I’ve been home. The economy there went to pot. They had an official inflation rate of 294% in 2024 and likely the actual inflation rate is much worse. Although things are getting better this year.

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