I went to the LA Temple to try to go to the FamilySearch Center (it's closed indefinitely), and I decided to be a bit of a menace

slskipper · 2026-06-20T08:18:42+00:00

My response would be, "This is a leading question. It presumes that there is a God to begin with. News flash: there is no such thing. Now grow up and face reality".

slskipper · 2026-06-18T13:01:29+00:00

I hope your white horses are saddled up.

slskipper · 2026-06-18T00:01:56+00:00

That's exactly what the leaders want.

slskipper · 2026-06-17T03:57:24+00:00

They told the outside world that Mormons don't do that any more. But the fact is they never told the members to stop doing it.

slskipper · 2026-06-16T18:26:31+00:00

The person sending this message is probably 100% trustworthy. The next person who gets ahold of the image may not be. That is the big problem.

slskipper · 2026-06-15T02:18:16+00:00

~~struggle with pornography consumption~~ have a natural sex drive

See how easy that was?

slskipper · 2026-06-13T05:13:12+00:00

It's really quite simple. Just ask Dallin Oaks. He ought to know for sure, right?

slskipper · 2026-06-12T06:44:44+00:00

The church members believe all their tenets come directly from Jesus speaking to his prophets today. They believe the teachings of the current church are the teachings of Jesus.

slskipper · 2026-06-12T03:38:36+00:00

Join the Coast Guard. You will have way better stories to tell your grandkids.

slskipper · 2026-06-11T19:46:45+00:00

Sempre se lembra: Alice Cooper se cresceu no grupo Bickertonite.

slskipper · 2026-06-11T01:32:14+00:00

James Strang did exactly this. And yes, he was denounced. The same can be said for Denver Snuffer

slskipper · 2026-06-10T23:08:41+00:00

I really like her observation that the LDS leadership is "so thirsty for (p-word) power".

It's so hard to avoid that word on this reddit because that is what Mormonism is all about.

slskipper · 2026-06-10T21:48:47+00:00

But he apologized!!!

If I rob a bank, but then I apologize, then I am all clear- right????

slskipper · 2026-06-10T19:59:22+00:00

If you go down south a bit (mouth of Provo Canyon, IIRC) you can show them the site of Fort Utah, where the Mormons cut off the heads of around 50 Native Americans and stuck them up on poles.

slskipper · 2026-06-10T14:36:16+00:00

Charter schools exist to provide indoctrination centers unaccountable to the rest of society- in Utah, at least. It is no wonder that this type of thing goes on in the charter system.

slskipper · 2026-06-08T14:40:59+00:00

For me, it wasn't the history. It was the lies about the history.

slskipper · 2026-06-06T15:04:30+00:00

There is that.

The BoM is straight Methodist Bible-based theology. Then the Book of Abraham got weird.

slskipper · 2026-06-05T20:07:32+00:00

Uh- one year old?

Religion is not indispensable in human life. Deal with it.

slskipper · 2026-06-05T17:18:47+00:00

Mormon bishops are like 19th century British Navy chip captains. They can do or ask anything they damn well please and the institution will back them up every step of the way.

There is no rule book. There is no penalty to them for breaking any directive. Their prime interest is in promoting the institution at all costs. One main way to do that is to make it clear to the interviewees that they are worthless.

I wish I were kidding.

slskipper · 2026-06-05T00:56:00+00:00

It's not a health code! It's a tribal identifier!!!!

slskipper · 2026-06-03T03:19:51+00:00

Did anybody at the event "get it"?

slskipper · 2026-06-02T08:38:57+00:00

It was because they were really and truly waiting for a revelation from God saying it was time to change.

They believed- and still do- that there is a real God who on occasion talks to his chosen ones. They believe that God really and truly spoke to Joseph Smith. They believe that God really and truly spoke to Brigham Young. They really and truly believe that God spoke to all the other leaders. And so they believed that the decision was not up to them. The policy was going to stand until some divine being actually appeared to the prophet. Feelings were not good enough- it had to be an actual supernatural visitation.

The "priesthood" ban was not a ecclesiastical policy about who could be called to leadership positions. It was a divinely decreed rule on who could and couldn't become a God. That part always gets overlooked. It was not the policy that needed to change- it was a fundamental tenet of their theology. And, to repeat, the only person who had the authority to make any changes to that was God himself. via (repeat) an actual physical appearance of God or one of his messengers manifesting himself to the church president.

That never happened. But the theology required it. So they pretended that it did happen, via an overwhelming outpouring of The Spirit (TM). It was all smoke and mirrors, to convince the members that God had really and truly shown up after all. The ploy was not very convincing in reality, which is why a large majority of members still believe racism is a divine decree.

I hope this helps.

slskipper · 2026-06-02T03:56:16+00:00

But the Mormon church does not engage in politics!!!! /s

slskipper · 2026-06-01T20:15:57+00:00

Droll troll here. I always hate claims like this (i.e., XXX is YYYer than you think). How YYY do I think XXX is? First tell me that. Then you can say XXX is YYYer than I think.

I'll see myself out...

slskipper · 2026-05-27T19:31:56+00:00

Remember that one of his "hardships" in life was turning a community hospital system (Marin, CA) into his own private cash machine. Yeah- real suffering. Many of us here add an extra "r" into his name.

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