Artist James C. Christensen has created about a dozen new images in his signature, colorful style to depict Lehi's dream of the Tree of Life found in 1 Nephi 8 in the Book of Mormon. Intermixed with corresponding scriptures, Robert Millet offers insight into the various elements of the dream, including the iron rod, the great and spacious building, the different multitudes and how the dream can be related to the reader.
The format is similar to a picture book, and the artist's paintings can help children understand the story, while parents and others can further study through Millet's writings.
There was a major loss for the Salt Lake City Mormon Theocracy today when the 9th Circuit Court upheld the ruling that Proposition 8 was unconstitutional.
"Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California, and to officially reclassify their relationships and families as inferior to those of opposite-sex couples."
"The people may not employ the initiative power to single out a disfavored group for unequal treatment and strip them, without a legitimate justification, of a right as important as the right to marry."
"Tradition alone is not a justification for taking away a right that had already been granted."
"Proposition 8 had absolutely no effect on the ability of same-sex couples to become parents or the manner in which children are raised in California. ... It is implausible to think that denying two men or two women the right to call themselves married could somehow bolster the stability of families headed by one man and one woman."
The letter, titled “Marriage and Religious Freedom: Fundamental Goods That Stand or Fall Together,” stated that “the promotion and protection of marriage — the union of one man and one woman as husband and wife — is a matter of the common good and serves the wellbeing of the couple, of children, of civil society and all people.”
To see an example of Americans who believe in justice and equality, and who believe that our laws and constitution protect all Americans, just take a look at the YouTube video:
"HRC's NYers for Marriage Equality" by hrcmedia
Decent people, such as the ones in the HRC video, helped defeat the hate campaign that the Mormon has helped to foster, and they helped pass gay marriage in New York. Good will eventually triumph over evil, and one day marriage equality will prevail in America.
This entire video is a disgusting, evil, hateful lie. It is the equivalent of the Ku Klux Klan whining about people allegedly "attacking" it when it has been burning crosses on the lawns of those it hates or working to deny blacks their human rights. That is exactly what the Mormon church has been doing, too. It has been actively spreading, through a vicious campaign of hate propaganda, lies meant to deprive gay Americans of their human rights.
@RCSVirginia "It is the equivalent of the Ku Klux Klan"
Gays and the KKK surround churches and threaten those inside. Gays and the KKK burn down Churches when they do NOT get what they want. STOP your hate!!
The framers of our Bill of Rights thought that religious freedom deserved double-barreled protection. Americans would have the right of "free exercise" of their chosen faith, and government was forbidden to foster or control religion by means of an "establishment of religion." Today, an increasing number of scholars and activists say that religion is not so special after all. Churches are just another charity, faith is just another ideology and worship is just another weekend activity.
Last month the Deseret News ran the following opinion piece titled, "Is religion special?" by Michael W. McConnell, a Stanford Law Professor and former judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit:
That's the recipe for making a Mormon entrepreneur. And with the annual LDS Booksellers Association shindig fast approaching, dozens of new LDS entrepreneurs are emerging fresh from the oven. When people stroll by the booths at the Booksellers expo, .
Oakey's 20-year-old son, Paul, is recovering in a Guatemalan hospital after being mauled by two lions Monday at a zoo. Elder Paul Richard Oakey, of St. George, has been serving the past 19 months as a missionary for The ...
How *Mormons* deal with attacks from the "Gay Community*??!!??
Wow! Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! DId the "Gay Community" (whatever that is) spend millions of dollars and require--on pain of excommunication--that all members do everything in their power (and pocketbooks) to rob Mormoms of their rights? What hypocracy!
Readers of this blog know that I love to profile Mormons who are actively engaged in reaching out to Jews. Leslie Pearson Rees is a great-grandmother who has spent 40 years studying the lost tribes of Israel during her travels around the country and in Africa. I've just finished reading her labor of love, the book "Ye Have Been Hid: Finding the Lost Tribes of Israel," and plan to recommend it to Mormons and non-Mormons who want a primer on LDS beliefs concerning the House of Israel.
"We took cover in a tiny interior bathroom, hunkered down and prayed with all of our might. It took approximately four minutes to dismantle the entire stake center. We could hear the building being dismantled ... and heard explosion after explosion, creaking, cracking, smashing of debris overhead and all around.
When it was over we were trapped for about an hour but alive. For the first time in my life I faced a terrifying experience and yet I knew we were being protected. I could literally feel the Lord's hands pressing us down and knew we would make it.
@MormonsLoveFamilies lol....probably didnt end well for the seven year old. lol its sad that they are comparing themselves to jesus when jesus would desciminate people who were different or fund politics. aka, prop 8. every one knows they did. and they wont deny it. hopefully the day comes when everyone in their church is too broke to pay tithing so that they cant use peoples money for their own motives
If I remember right it was the Mormons who need police protection from the GAYS, right? It was the GAYS who surround the Mormon places of worship with threats of violence. The KKK used to do the same thing to African Americans. You are on the WRONG side of morality and right!
Your comparison to gay people to the kkk is rediculous. no one was trying to take away the kkk's rights. The kkk had no reason to do what they did and they were not being discriminated against. They were just prejudice. Now in this situation where it is openly known that the mormons funded prop 8 to ban gay marriage...dont you think gay people might feel like they are being discriminated against and would want to stand up to you guys about it?
And the mormon church is racist. it even says in the book of mormon that being black is a curse. I think you should look further into the church history instead of being spoon fead your knowlege by a biggot church that doesnt tell you anything but what they want you to think. if you actually looked at real historical facts about joseph smith, and the other church leaders you would see how crazy they are. try looking up some interviews with them and see how they answer things for you.
@omiolo LOL , nice try...maybe you should try reading a verse in the book of mormon. 2 Nephi 5:21 And he had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them."
@patchdolly Nice GAME you are playing. They became cursed and then they became skinned blackened. It does NOT say that be black is a curse.
Some of the MOST righteous people and Prophets in the Book of Mormon had black skin. Including Samuel the Lamanite and others. And in the Book of Mormon the most cursed people were the white people. Namely the Zoramite and the Amalekites and the wicked priests of King Noah. Sorry your quote mining didn't work.
Salt Lake City is the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whose worshippers are better known as Mormons. It is one of the world's wealthiest and fastest-growing religions, baptising new members in scores of countries at a rate of 400,000 a year. Moroni's vantage point, .
the Salt Lake Temple, is the Church's equivalent of Mecca or the Vatican. At night, bathed in floodlight, the building's pale granite walls become luminescent, turning the 160-year-old landmark into a beacon of unbending faith that can be seen for miles
In the year following his hospital stay, on Good Friday, Colton was in his dad's truck with his sister Cassie. Cassie was easily able to answer that Good Friday was the "day Jesus died on the cross." But when her father asked, "Do you know why Jesus died on the cross?" she had to stop and think. Colton, however, had a ready answer: "
Jesus told me he died on the cross so we could go see his Dad." Todd aptly described Colton's explanation as "the sweetest declaration of the gospel I had ever heard." It pointed up the "difference between grown-up and childlike faith."
His father was a Mormon and his mother a Methodist, who eventually converted to her husband's faith. Young Robert grew up in Baton Rouge, La., surrounded mostly by Southern Baptists and Catholics, and the topic of religion rarely came up. But when the family moved to a southern Louisiana town just as Robert was completing grade school, he attended a Catholic school where he was taunted and jeered for his faith.
"They called me the Moron," Millet explains in the introduction to his new volume, Modern Mormonism: Myths and Realities. "I remember the sick feeling that settled in my stomach every Sunday evening as we drove back to our home [from the nearest LDS branch 40 miles away], knowing that, starting again tomorrow, I would be the butt of jokes for another five days.".
Strengthen Families, Strengthen Society: An Interview with Jim Daly
The President of Focus on the Family explains how his organization supports families, stands up for family values, and ultimately strengthens society.
The Church has several members, as well as missionaries, in Slave Lake. Church Welfare Services reports the meetinghouse and the homes of 10 Latter-day Saints have been destroyed. Displaced members have taken shelter in the meetinghouse in the nearby community of Athabasca and with relatives and friends in Edmonton. Missionaries serving in the area have been moved to Edmonton. . .
The town's 7,000 residents, including members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, have been evacuated to neighboring communities. No deaths or injuries have been reported, but several of Slave Lake's buildings have been destroyed, including the town hall, the library, a radio station, a mall and several homes. Further damage is expected as the fire continues to burn.
Homosexuality is defined by sex. Heterosexuality is defined by God. Homosexuality cannot be defined by marriage, it cannot be defined by children, and it will never be defined by love. Homosexuality is defined by a perverted sexual act. May God's love and mercy shine like a rainbow on our brothers and sisters struggling with sexual addiction and perversion.
"Mormons believe that men are born free of sin and earn their way to godhood by the proper exercise of free will, rather than through the grace of Jesus Christ. Thus Jesus' suffering and death in the Mormon view were brotherly acts of compassion, but they do not atone for the sins of others." (Kenneth L. Woodward. "What Mormons Believe." Newsweek, September 1980: 68)
@omiolo Lol, religion is WRONG. If you had been born in pakistan, you would be bowing to mecca 5 times a day. That should be proof enough, children are endoctrinated at birth to beleive the grand fairy tale. Turn to science and reason, we have cookies!
In September 1980, a Newsweek article about the church was about to hit the newsstands. The author and religion editor, Kenneth L. Woodward, was a practicing Catholic and well-known for his "tell it how it is" style of writing. Newsweek put a picture of the Salt Lake Temple on the front cover, and adherents were waiting to see if someone from the "main-stream media" would finally get it right. Most were disappointed.
As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we sometimes leave things unsaid that absolutely need to be said, especially when others are listening and observing. Let me explain.
There are several LDS singles wards in the region, but the Crystal City one is the first chapel dedicated exclusively to singles, according to a release. It is a renovated office building, rather than the traditional LDS meetinghouse, and will serve three wards of about 775 singles, many of whom live within walking distance.
Oh, I'm sure they are treating gays as the Savior did. LOL They are treating them with LOVE, huh? And, ACCEPTANCE, huh? They don't ever shun a gay!! And, they don't tell them that they can't attend the so-called "Church", do they? Oh, I know. You wouldn't do such a thing. You are acting as the Savior acted. You are such "GOOD" soldiers for Christ. Such good "Christians." Haha! Tell me another lie!!! Please!!! This is too funny!!! I love it!!! You people crack me up!!! NOT REALLY!!! U spread hate
Los Angeles members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints joined with nearly 50,000 other Church members thoughout California to make April 30 a statewide day of service as part of the Mormon Helping Hands program, providing community service and disaster relief worldwide. Similar projects also occurred on the same day across Oregon, Washington and Hawaii.
@omiolo Yeah, they probably screened people BEFORE helping them. "Are you gay, sir?" I can see it now ... lol. You people make me sick. You try to come across as loving, compassionate people, yet you are anything but that. And, I had a person attack me for being gay in the "Church" and then later found out that HE was out MOLESTING little kids (in the "Church"). I guess child molestors are Ok. But, gays are a horrible bunch of people, I tell ya. I see nothing but hypocrisy in the "Church" & hate
BTW: Gordon B Hinkley admitted he believes in an entirely different Christ than Christians do.
"[I] do not believe in the traditional Christ. No, I don't. The traditional Christ of whom they speak is not the Christ of whom I speak. For the Christ of whom I speak has been revealed in this the Dispensation of the Fulness [sic] of Times'" June 20, 1998
@joshcfriesen "[I] do not believe in the traditional Christ"
CORRECT. LDS follow the HISTORICAL Christ, NOT the traditional Christ. We REJECT the Nicene Creed, forced on Christianity by a pagan Emperor by the sword.
@omiolo What about the Nicene Creed do you reject? "We believe in ONE God"..."We believe in ONE Lord, Jesus Christ, the ONLY Son of God"???? Believing otherwise is BLASPHEMY! The Bible is very clear that we should have no other gods before Him.
On a separate note: You say you fallow a "HISTORICAL Christ". With such an emphasis on "HISTORICAL" why do you believe in a UNHISTORICAL book??? The book of mormon is littered with historical fallacies.
@joshcfriesen **why do you believe in a UNHISTORICAL book** Like a book that says GIANTS roamed the earth and tells EXACTLY where they lived and where they died, but NO one has been able to find DNA, bones etc Is that the book I bet in your faith they NEVER talk about GIANTS among many other things.Also please give me the HISTORICAL evidence for King David, the greatest king in Jewish history. I wish you were smarter.
@omiolo Yeah you're right...no one ever talks about Goliath in our faith. I agree that there are events and people in the bible that have yet to be validated and we could go on all day listing them but the fact of the matter is that unlike the book of mormon historians have found evidence to prove tens of thousands of pieces of evidence in the bible.
Why don't you watch this video before you get back to me... w ww.lhvm.org/thebiblevs.html
@joshcfriesen "Yeah you're right...no one ever talks about Goliath in our faith"
I said GIANTS. But I think you have ALREADY shown comprehension isn't your strong point. Either way, NOTHING In the Bible has been validated to have happened the way the Bible said it did. ESPECIALLY the major events. The GIANTS should be the EASIEST one since EXACTS are given. Their location, time period, and burial location. But NOTHING.
@omiolo you said "in your faith they NEVER talk about GIANTS" i just thought i would point out your poor choice of wording. I think it is just a little more reasonable that they can't find artifacts from thousands of years ago as opposed to just a few hundred years ago.
"NOTHING in the Bible has been validated to have happened the way the Bible said"?
do know EXACTLY how WWII happened? No but we know enough about it to validate it and prove its existence. i think ur afraid to watch that vid
As The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints grows, so does the publishing of the Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ. The 150 millionth copy of the Book of Mormon was recently printed, passing another milestone in the book's 181-year history.
The LDS is now inviting the public to tour their newly renovated Atlanta Georgia Temple, 6450 Barfield Road in Sandy Springs. This is the first time the building has been opened to the public since its original dedication in June of 1983. ...
Right around the time the curtain was dropping on the opening night of Broadway's new "South Park"-inspired musical, "The Book of Mormon," I was in Salt Lake City, Utah, having dinner with two top-level elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, plus a few other saints (as observant Mormons are known), as well as three rabbis and a scholar of ancient Hebrew from American Jewish University (AJU)
Unless of course you are Joseph's Myth or Breedem Young. In which case marriage is between a man and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman and some teenage girls.
@omiolo The LDS Doctrine and Covenants section 132 still says that polygamy is not just allowed, but demanded "if ye abide not that covenant, then are ye damned" Both Smith and Young each had over 30 wives.
@drinkswithnedkelly "The LDS Doctrine and Covenants section 132 still says that polygamy is not just allowed, but demanded"
Actually that is NOT in context and section 132 (the parts on polygamy) was superseded by the manifesto. You must NOT have studied that in ANTImormon school. That is OK, they usually do NOT teach relevant information.
Mormons are not being attacked. They are the attackers. They are not the victims here (no Mormon marriage was changed after Prop 8). This is a classic conservative reversal. They abuser imagines himself the abused. The Mormon church excluded blacks from meaningful participation until 1978. They continue to keep women out of meaningful leadership roles. They are always behind the curve. That's their selling point--join us, we're stuck in another era.
@MormonsLoveFamilies God doesn't love lies or distortions of the truth. Wake up. Become more conscious. Learn more about the world. That what God loves.
@zubDabber Agreed! The LDS opened Pandora's Box for what they did with Prop 8. Let's see, The "Mormons" spent over 20 million dollars for Prop 8. The LDS performs Electric Shock Therapy of LDS gay members. The Mormons had a gay couple arrested for a kiss. The LDS has no means to be talking because the LDS is just a Bigot ignorant religion. BTW, love your last Phrase
"Bright, faithful Latter-Day Saints"? I testify that our Father-Mother denounces celestial marriage: "Woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck...For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying...until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be" Matt. 24:38, 39. Beliefs of matter-marriage do not enter the heavenly state.
I am not going to talk about the “how” of teaching but rather about the “how” of learning. There can be a significant difference between what a teacher says and what those in the class hear or learn.
As a member of the Sunday School general presidency, I feel I should begin my remarks this morning by saying, “Good morning, class.”
My message today is to all those who have been called to teach, in whatever organization you are serving and whether you are a recent convert to the Church or a teacher with years of experience.
This week marks a milestone for BYU-Idaho with the dedication of the new 15,000-seat BYU-Idaho Center, a university gathering place perhaps unlike any other in the world. The dedication will mark an end of a remarkable 10-year period of construction in Rexburg since BYU-Idaho was announced as a four-year school.
This is a legitimate argument. All languages have words that can mean different things depending on a variety of factors including context. Dr. William Hamblin notes, for instance, that "dialectical variations of the same Hebrew word can mean ram, deer, ibex or mountain goat" due to "different dialects and different ecological zones" (quoted in "Shaken Faith Syndrome," p. 42).
The pinnacle of our temple worship is the sealing of couples and families together in the Abrahamic Covenant. Children born to these couples are said to be "born in the [Abrahamic] covenant," and
people who are baptized into the LDS Church are also considered to have entered the covenant as a member of the House of Israel.
While a hemispheric model for Book of Mormon geography looks attractive to modern readers familiar with maps of North and South America, when we closely examine the text, it becomes apparent that such a model is untenable. As anthropologist Dr. John Sorenson pointed out years ago, the Nephite scripture consistently points to relatively short distances between Book of Mormon cities.
I spent this weekend cocooned on my couch in my pyjamas, watching men I love like distant grandfathers expound on the gospel as taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Twice a year the members of my faith gather in assembly halls, local meeting houses and around their television sets for two days of sermons from our leaders. I typically relish this time. I spent Saturday taking notes on serving our fellow man, consecrating my life to God and simplifying our busy lives.
On Sunday, Boyd K. Packer, an apostle in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, issued a firm condemnation of gay marriage and expressed the view that same-sex attraction is something that can be changed.
I guess that it probably could be changed, with like, a lobotomy... or coma... But you know, that's the same way you'd make a straight person gay wouldn't it? Because after all, I definitely chose to live a life that's super hard, 6000 miles away from the person I love because I'm full of Satan. Oh, wait, is this supposed to be wrong and illegal, BEFORE i was ordained to Laurel president? Because I was gay the whoooooollle time, and then some.
Link please. The dynamics of the animal kingdom at large is by far different than the dynamics of our own. I don't see how it would be possible to test these "drugs" with any real proof of improvement or the lack thereof. Last I knew there was no real way to communicate whether or not an animal is exclusively homosexual for the same reasons that any human would be. So if you would, please post a link to the actual research, or at least a real/reliable science journal.
During his remarks today at the first session of the 180th Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church President Thomas S. Monson announced that the Church would build five new temples. The new temples will be built in Hartford, Connecticut; Indianapolis, Indiana; Tijuana, Mexico; Urdaneta, Philippines; and Lisbon, Portugal.
PANTS PANTS PANTS. PANTS PANTS, BANANA PANTS!!!! <--- that's all i hear when omiolo tries to say words :) tehehehe! but it's sooo funny to listen to a dog argue that it is infact a unicorn by barking. :D
In addition to the personal study tools, the new site's log-in capability allows church members and leaders to access new versions of their ward and stake directories and calendars. Members can edit their own directory information and upload pictures of individuals and families. A church member can see a map of his own ward boundaries -- including a satellite view -- identifying the homes of members in the ward.
That's not creepy at all.... and yeah, I am pretty strange, but I get tired of fighting fire with fire, so why not throw some banana on that flame and make a tasty snack?
A "Church News and Events" section brings together headlines and links to the church's official news sources, including the Public Affairs Newsroom, church magazines, the Mormon Channel and LDS Church News (a supplement to the Deseret News). . .
One of the counselors in that Tallahassee, Fla., stake was Robert L. Millet, who is now a popular author and professor of ancient scripture at BYU. Millet told a class at BYU's Campus Education Week that the woman's list was "very forbidding" and went on for a number of pages.
PROVO, Utah -- She was faithful, but overwhelmed. So she wrote a letter to her stake president. He, in turn, read it to his counselors:
"Dear President, I want to do everything the Lord expects of me. I want to do everything the church expects of me. I decided to make a list of the things that I've been asked to do in church in the last six months. Enclosed is a copy of that list ..."
Typically -- in customary Israelite fashion -- the Lehites re-named those places through which they traveled. In this instance, however, Ishmael was buried in a place that "was called Nahom." In 1952, based strictly on the text, Hugh Nibley suggested that the place was already known as Nahom prior to the Lehite arrival.
"We wanted to tell people about the church, but nobody responded," recalled Stephan Lendel, a 1991 LDS convert who now serves as a district president in Jicin. "Some did later, but nobody really wished to hear about it."
Hynec Renza, a 15-year convert from Prague, summed up the ironies about religion and beliefs following the newfound freedoms, saying the Czech people struggle with authority and organization, with leanings toward atheism and apathy.
Artist James C. Christensen has created about a dozen new images in his signature, colorful style to depict Lehi's dream of the Tree of Life found in 1 Nephi 8 in the Book of Mormon. Intermixed with corresponding scriptures, Robert Millet offers insight into the various elements of the dream, including the iron rod, the great and spacious building, the different multitudes and how the dream can be related to the reader.
omiolo 2 weeks ago
The format is similar to a picture book, and the artist's paintings can help children understand the story, while parents and others can further study through Millet's writings.
omiolo 2 weeks ago
"LEHI'S DREAM," art by James C. Christensen, text by Robert L. Millet, Deseret Book, $24.99, 73 pages (nf)
omiolo 2 weeks ago
There was a major loss for the Salt Lake City Mormon Theocracy today when the 9th Circuit Court upheld the ruling that Proposition 8 was unconstitutional.
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@RCSVirginia The Supreme Court will side with FAMILIES and those that love FREEDOM. NO one will enjoy living in a world that gays create and rule.
omiolo 2 weeks ago
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From 9th Circuit Court Majority Opinion:
"Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California, and to officially reclassify their relationships and families as inferior to those of opposite-sex couples."
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From 9th Circuit Court Majority Opinion:
"The people may not employ the initiative power to single out a disfavored group for unequal treatment and strip them, without a legitimate justification, of a right as important as the right to marry."
"Tradition alone is not a justification for taking away a right that had already been granted."
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From 9th Circuit Court Majority Opinion:
"Proposition 8 had absolutely no effect on the ability of same-sex couples to become parents or the manner in which children are raised in California. ... It is implausible to think that denying two men or two women the right to call themselves married could somehow bolster the stability of families headed by one man and one woman."
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For an insightful look at the traditional, biblical marriage that the supporters of Propostion 8 are trying to protect, be sure to see:
"Betty Bowers Explains Traditional Marriage to Everyone Else" by MrsBettyBowers
And for a two great takes on the Mormon support of Prop 8, do not miss:
"Mormon Church Defends Prop 8 and Marriage(s)" by lezazacomedy
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"'Home Invasion': No on Prop 8 ad directed toward Mormon Church" by jonahtrainer
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MARRIAGE AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM:
Fundamental Goods That Stand or Fall Together
An Open Letter from Religious Leaders in the United States to All Americans
omiolo 1 month ago
@omiolo Religious leaders need to stand up for what is right.
MormonsLoveFamilies 1 month ago
The letter, titled “Marriage and Religious Freedom: Fundamental Goods That Stand or Fall Together,” stated that “the promotion and protection of marriage — the union of one man and one woman as husband and wife — is a matter of the common good and serves the wellbeing of the couple, of children, of civil society and all people.”
omiolo 1 month ago
To see an example of Americans who believe in justice and equality, and who believe that our laws and constitution protect all Americans, just take a look at the YouTube video:
"HRC's NYers for Marriage Equality" by hrcmedia
Decent people, such as the ones in the HRC video, helped defeat the hate campaign that the Mormon has helped to foster, and they helped pass gay marriage in New York. Good will eventually triumph over evil, and one day marriage equality will prevail in America.
RCSVirginia 1 month ago
@RCSVirginia Nice SPIN! You keep working on your SPIN and Mormons will keep protecting and saving families!
omiolo 1 month ago
This entire video is a disgusting, evil, hateful lie. It is the equivalent of the Ku Klux Klan whining about people allegedly "attacking" it when it has been burning crosses on the lawns of those it hates or working to deny blacks their human rights. That is exactly what the Mormon church has been doing, too. It has been actively spreading, through a vicious campaign of hate propaganda, lies meant to deprive gay Americans of their human rights.
RCSVirginia 1 month ago
@RCSVirginia "It is the equivalent of the Ku Klux Klan"
Gays and the KKK surround churches and threaten those inside. Gays and the KKK burn down Churches when they do NOT get what they want. STOP your hate!!
omiolo 1 month ago
The framers of our Bill of Rights thought that religious freedom deserved double-barreled protection. Americans would have the right of "free exercise" of their chosen faith, and government was forbidden to foster or control religion by means of an "establishment of religion." Today, an increasing number of scholars and activists say that religion is not so special after all. Churches are just another charity, faith is just another ideology and worship is just another weekend activity.
omiolo 1 month ago
@omiolo I like freedom.
MormonsLoveFamilies 1 month ago
Last month the Deseret News ran the following opinion piece titled, "Is religion special?" by Michael W. McConnell, a Stanford Law Professor and former judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit:
omiolo 1 month ago
FOOTBALL: Langham Creek's Juergens Twins prepare for LDS Mission
omiolo 5 months ago
Board members argued that the book's negative characterization of
Mormons might not be age-appropriate for sixth graders. They said
they worried that young children would read the negative
characterizations as fact.
Some Albemarle parents object to the depiction of Mormons in Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle's "A Study in Scarlet."
omiolo 5 months ago
That's the recipe for making a Mormon entrepreneur. And with the annual LDS Booksellers Association shindig fast approaching, dozens of new LDS entrepreneurs are emerging fresh from the oven. When people stroll by the booths at the Booksellers expo, .
omiolo 6 months ago
Oakey's 20-year-old son, Paul, is recovering in a Guatemalan hospital after being mauled by two lions Monday at a zoo. Elder Paul Richard Oakey, of St. George, has been serving the past 19 months as a missionary for The ...
omiolo 6 months ago
How *Mormons* deal with attacks from the "Gay Community*??!!??
Wow! Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! DId the "Gay Community" (whatever that is) spend millions of dollars and require--on pain of excommunication--that all members do everything in their power (and pocketbooks) to rob Mormoms of their rights? What hypocracy!
TheStrong32 6 months ago
Readers of this blog know that I love to profile Mormons who are actively engaged in reaching out to Jews. Leslie Pearson Rees is a great-grandmother who has spent 40 years studying the lost tribes of Israel during her travels around the country and in Africa. I've just finished reading her labor of love, the book "Ye Have Been Hid: Finding the Lost Tribes of Israel," and plan to recommend it to Mormons and non-Mormons who want a primer on LDS beliefs concerning the House of Israel.
omiolo 7 months ago
Book Review: Mormons and the Gathering of Israel
omiolo 7 months ago
Podcast: FAIR Issues, 8: Challenging Issues and Keeping the Faith Pt
8
by Steve Densley Jr on June 4th, 2011
omiolo 7 months ago
And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying,
Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He said unto him,
What is written in the law? how readest thou? (vss. 25-26)
omiolo 7 months ago
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away. With great speakers and topics covering, politics, polygamy,
immigration, Kinderhook plates, Islam, archeology, the First Vision,
translation, blood atonement, ancient Egyptian art, word prints, and
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omiolo 7 months ago
I pray that we all can hold to the rod, that we can be kind to
others, and treat others as the Savior would treat them. This will
lead to happiness in our life.
--Scott Gordon President of FAIR
omiolo 7 months ago
That's right, play the victim. Make us the bad guy. It's a very effective method.
GinnyStoleMyMan 7 months ago
@GinnyStoleMyMan I want you to know that God loves you.
MormonsLoveFamilies 7 months ago
@MormonsLoveFamilies And I want you to know no one appreciates your condescension or soap box. Kindly, step down and go away.
GinnyStoleMyMan 7 months ago
@GinnyStoleMyMan God still loves you.
MormonsLoveFamilies 7 months ago
@MormonsLoveFamilies That's exactly what I'm talking about. -_-
GinnyStoleMyMan 7 months ago
@GinnyStoleMyMan "know no one appreciates your condescension or soap box"
and know (sic) appreciates your rash to judgment and IGNORANT statements.
omiolo 7 months ago
@omiolo Right back at you.
GinnyStoleMyMan 7 months ago
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@GinnyStoleMyMan "Right back at you. "
I know you are but what am I? I guess that is easier than having to make a logical argument?
omiolo 7 months ago
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@GinnyStoleMyMan "That's right, play the victim"
I guess it beats playing the baby???
omiolo 7 months ago
"We took cover in a tiny interior bathroom, hunkered down and prayed with all of our might. It took approximately four minutes to dismantle the entire stake center. We could hear the building being dismantled ... and heard explosion after explosion, creaking, cracking, smashing of debris overhead and all around.
omiolo 8 months ago
When it was over we were trapped for about an hour but alive. For the first time in my life I faced a terrifying experience and yet I knew we were being protected. I could literally feel the Lord's hands pressing us down and knew we would make it.
omiolo 8 months ago
@omiolo The power of the Lord.
MormonsLoveFamilies 7 months ago
"II was at church meeting Sunday night with six other adults and a 7-year-old girl.
omiolo 8 months ago
@omiolo That sounds like a strange meeting.
MormonsLoveFamilies 7 months ago
@MormonsLoveFamilies lol....probably didnt end well for the seven year old. lol its sad that they are comparing themselves to jesus when jesus would desciminate people who were different or fund politics. aka, prop 8. every one knows they did. and they wont deny it. hopefully the day comes when everyone in their church is too broke to pay tithing so that they cant use peoples money for their own motives
patchdolly 7 months ago
@patchdolly "prop 8. every one knows they did. "
If I remember right it was the Mormons who need police protection from the GAYS, right? It was the GAYS who surround the Mormon places of worship with threats of violence. The KKK used to do the same thing to African Americans. You are on the WRONG side of morality and right!
omiolo 7 months ago
@omiolo @omiolo
Your comparison to gay people to the kkk is rediculous. no one was trying to take away the kkk's rights. The kkk had no reason to do what they did and they were not being discriminated against. They were just prejudice. Now in this situation where it is openly known that the mormons funded prop 8 to ban gay marriage...dont you think gay people might feel like they are being discriminated against and would want to stand up to you guys about it?
patchdolly 6 months ago
@omiolo
And the mormon church is racist. it even says in the book of mormon that being black is a curse. I think you should look further into the church history instead of being spoon fead your knowlege by a biggot church that doesnt tell you anything but what they want you to think. if you actually looked at real historical facts about joseph smith, and the other church leaders you would see how crazy they are. try looking up some interviews with them and see how they answer things for you.
patchdolly 6 months ago
@patchdolly "it even says in the book of mormon that being black is a curse"
The Book of Mormon that I have says that the black people were the most righteous people in the Book of Mormon. Is righteousness a curse? LOL
omiolo 6 months ago
@omiolo LOL , nice try...maybe you should try reading a verse in the book of mormon. 2 Nephi 5:21 And he had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them."
patchdolly 5 months ago
@patchdolly Nice GAME you are playing. They became cursed and then they became skinned blackened. It does NOT say that be black is a curse.
Some of the MOST righteous people and Prophets in the Book of Mormon had black skin. Including Samuel the Lamanite and others. And in the Book of Mormon the most cursed people were the white people. Namely the Zoramite and the Amalekites and the wicked priests of King Noah. Sorry your quote mining didn't work.
omiolo 5 months ago
@patchdolly I want you to know that God loves you.
MormonsLoveFamilies 6 months ago
Salt Lake City is the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whose worshippers are better known as Mormons. It is one of the world's wealthiest and fastest-growing religions, baptising new members in scores of countries at a rate of 400,000 a year. Moroni's vantage point, .
omiolo 8 months ago
the Salt Lake Temple, is the Church's equivalent of Mecca or the Vatican. At night, bathed in floodlight, the building's pale granite walls become luminescent, turning the 160-year-old landmark into a beacon of unbending faith that can be seen for miles
omiolo 8 months ago
In the year following his hospital stay, on Good Friday, Colton was in his dad's truck with his sister Cassie. Cassie was easily able to answer that Good Friday was the "day Jesus died on the cross." But when her father asked, "Do you know why Jesus died on the cross?" she had to stop and think. Colton, however, had a ready answer: "
omiolo 8 months ago
Jesus told me he died on the cross so we could go see his Dad." Todd aptly described Colton's explanation as "the sweetest declaration of the gospel I had ever heard." It pointed up the "difference between grown-up and childlike faith."
omiolo 8 months ago
A young boy's experience with heaven
Mormon Times
omiolo 8 months ago
His father was a Mormon and his mother a Methodist, who eventually converted to her husband's faith. Young Robert grew up in Baton Rouge, La., surrounded mostly by Southern Baptists and Catholics, and the topic of religion rarely came up. But when the family moved to a southern Louisiana town just as Robert was completing grade school, he attended a Catholic school where he was taunted and jeered for his faith.
omiolo 8 months ago
"They called me the Moron," Millet explains in the introduction to his new volume, Modern Mormonism: Myths and Realities. "I remember the sick feeling that settled in my stomach every Sunday evening as we drove back to our home [from the nearest LDS branch 40 miles away], knowing that, starting again tomorrow, I would be the butt of jokes for another five days.".
omiolo 8 months ago
Strengthen Families, Strengthen Society: An Interview with Jim Daly
The President of Focus on the Family explains how his organization supports families, stands up for family values, and ultimately strengthens society.
omiolo 8 months ago
"He may be a Mormon, but that doesn't bother me a bit," Graham said. "He has a lot of the same values that I hold dear.
omiolo 8 months ago
The Church has several members, as well as missionaries, in Slave Lake. Church Welfare Services reports the meetinghouse and the homes of 10 Latter-day Saints have been destroyed. Displaced members have taken shelter in the meetinghouse in the nearby community of Athabasca and with relatives and friends in Edmonton. Missionaries serving in the area have been moved to Edmonton. . .
omiolo 8 months ago
@omiolo Slave Lake is an unusual name for a town.
MormonsLoveFamilies 8 months ago
The town's 7,000 residents, including members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, have been evacuated to neighboring communities. No deaths or injuries have been reported, but several of Slave Lake's buildings have been destroyed, including the town hall, the library, a radio station, a mall and several homes. Further damage is expected as the fire continues to burn.
omiolo 8 months ago
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Homosexuality is defined by sex. Heterosexuality is defined by God. Homosexuality cannot be defined by marriage, it cannot be defined by children, and it will never be defined by love. Homosexuality is defined by a perverted sexual act. May God's love and mercy shine like a rainbow on our brothers and sisters struggling with sexual addiction and perversion.
jmoonsuede 8 months ago
"Mormons believe that men are born free of sin and earn their way to godhood by the proper exercise of free will, rather than through the grace of Jesus Christ. Thus Jesus' suffering and death in the Mormon view were brotherly acts of compassion, but they do not atone for the sins of others." (Kenneth L. Woodward. "What Mormons Believe." Newsweek, September 1980: 68)
ABSOLUTELY WRONG
omiolo 8 months ago
@omiolo Lol, religion is WRONG. If you had been born in pakistan, you would be bowing to mecca 5 times a day. That should be proof enough, children are endoctrinated at birth to beleive the grand fairy tale. Turn to science and reason, we have cookies!
coolair00 7 months ago
@coolair00 "religion is WRONG"
I think the COMMUNIST experiment proved YOUR declaration WRONG.
omiolo 7 months ago
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@omiolo I think the complete lack of evidence proved you are deluded.
coolair00 7 months ago
In September 1980, a Newsweek article about the church was about to hit the newsstands. The author and religion editor, Kenneth L. Woodward, was a practicing Catholic and well-known for his "tell it how it is" style of writing. Newsweek put a picture of the Salt Lake Temple on the front cover, and adherents were waiting to see if someone from the "main-stream media" would finally get it right. Most were disappointed.
omiolo 8 months ago
As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we sometimes leave things unsaid that absolutely need to be said, especially when others are listening and observing. Let me explain.
omiolo 8 months ago
There are several LDS singles wards in the region, but the Crystal City one is the first chapel dedicated exclusively to singles, according to a release. It is a renovated office building, rather than the traditional LDS meetinghouse, and will serve three wards of about 775 singles, many of whom live within walking distance.
omiolo 9 months ago
These differences,
far from being random variations resulting from inadvertent scribal
errors, clearly indicate that the King James and other Bible
versions contain intentional deviations from the original meaning -
deviations designed to justify Israel in its apostate beliefs and
practices. A number of chiasma common to the two accounts give clear
evidence of Book of Mormon supremacy, as they are found degraded in
the King James version.
omiolo 9 months ago
@omiolo The Bible Mormon Christians typically use
MormonsLoveFamilies 9 months ago
The differences between the Book of Mormon and King James versions
are compared with English translations of the Greek Septuagint, the
Latin Vulgate and the Hebrew Masoretic texts. The author has found
that 115 of the 348 differences between the Book of Mormon and Bible
texts actually alter the meaning of the passages
omiolo 9 months ago
Oh, I'm sure they are treating gays as the Savior did. LOL They are treating them with LOVE, huh? And, ACCEPTANCE, huh? They don't ever shun a gay!! And, they don't tell them that they can't attend the so-called "Church", do they? Oh, I know. You wouldn't do such a thing. You are acting as the Savior acted. You are such "GOOD" soldiers for Christ. Such good "Christians." Haha! Tell me another lie!!! Please!!! This is too funny!!! I love it!!! You people crack me up!!! NOT REALLY!!! U spread hate
David8024667 9 months ago 2
@David8024667 I want you to know that God loves you.
MormonsLoveFamilies 9 months ago
Los Angeles members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints joined with nearly 50,000 other Church members thoughout California to make April 30 a statewide day of service as part of the Mormon Helping Hands program, providing community service and disaster relief worldwide. Similar projects also occurred on the same day across Oregon, Washington and Hawaii.
omiolo 9 months ago
@omiolo Yeah, they probably screened people BEFORE helping them. "Are you gay, sir?" I can see it now ... lol. You people make me sick. You try to come across as loving, compassionate people, yet you are anything but that. And, I had a person attack me for being gay in the "Church" and then later found out that HE was out MOLESTING little kids (in the "Church"). I guess child molestors are Ok. But, gays are a horrible bunch of people, I tell ya. I see nothing but hypocrisy in the "Church" & hate
David8024667 9 months ago
@David8024667 I want you to know that God loves you.
MormonsLoveFamilies 9 months ago
@David8024667 "Yeah, they probably screened people BEFORE helping them"
is that what GAYS do? Is that why you think OTHERS do that?
omiolo 9 months ago
@omiolo thats great and all but thats not what is getting you to heaven! Its through faith in the REAL Jesus Christ...not your "works".
joshcfriesen 8 months ago
@joshcfriesen I want you to know that God loves you.
MormonsLoveFamilies 8 months ago
@MormonsLoveFamilies I know God loves me!
BTW: Gordon B Hinkley admitted he believes in an entirely different Christ than Christians do.
"[I] do not believe in the traditional Christ. No, I don't. The traditional Christ of whom they speak is not the Christ of whom I speak. For the Christ of whom I speak has been revealed in this the Dispensation of the Fulness [sic] of Times'" June 20, 1998
joshcfriesen 8 months ago
@joshcfriesen God still loves you.
MormonsLoveFamilies 8 months ago
@joshcfriesen "[I] do not believe in the traditional Christ"
CORRECT. LDS follow the HISTORICAL Christ, NOT the traditional Christ. We REJECT the Nicene Creed, forced on Christianity by a pagan Emperor by the sword.
omiolo 8 months ago
@omiolo What about the Nicene Creed do you reject? "We believe in ONE God"..."We believe in ONE Lord, Jesus Christ, the ONLY Son of God"???? Believing otherwise is BLASPHEMY! The Bible is very clear that we should have no other gods before Him.
On a separate note: You say you fallow a "HISTORICAL Christ". With such an emphasis on "HISTORICAL" why do you believe in a UNHISTORICAL book??? The book of mormon is littered with historical fallacies.
joshcfriesen 8 months ago
@joshcfriesen **why do you believe in a UNHISTORICAL book** Like a book that says GIANTS roamed the earth and tells EXACTLY where they lived and where they died, but NO one has been able to find DNA, bones etc Is that the book I bet in your faith they NEVER talk about GIANTS among many other things.Also please give me the HISTORICAL evidence for King David, the greatest king in Jewish history. I wish you were smarter.
omiolo 8 months ago
@omiolo Yeah you're right...no one ever talks about Goliath in our faith. I agree that there are events and people in the bible that have yet to be validated and we could go on all day listing them but the fact of the matter is that unlike the book of mormon historians have found evidence to prove tens of thousands of pieces of evidence in the bible.
Why don't you watch this video before you get back to me... w ww.lhvm.org/thebiblevs.html
joshcfriesen 8 months ago
@joshcfriesen "Yeah you're right...no one ever talks about Goliath in our faith"
I said GIANTS. But I think you have ALREADY shown comprehension isn't your strong point. Either way, NOTHING In the Bible has been validated to have happened the way the Bible said it did. ESPECIALLY the major events. The GIANTS should be the EASIEST one since EXACTS are given. Their location, time period, and burial location. But NOTHING.
omiolo 8 months ago
@omiolo you said "in your faith they NEVER talk about GIANTS" i just thought i would point out your poor choice of wording. I think it is just a little more reasonable that they can't find artifacts from thousands of years ago as opposed to just a few hundred years ago.
"NOTHING in the Bible has been validated to have happened the way the Bible said"?
do know EXACTLY how WWII happened? No but we know enough about it to validate it and prove its existence. i think ur afraid to watch that vid
joshcfriesen 8 months ago
@joshcfriesen "i just thought i would point out your poor choice of wording"
actually my choice of wording appears to be PERFECT since I used the plural and you were ONLY able to come up with the singular.
omiolo 8 months ago
@omiolo we digress.
My last words to you are that you should never stop asking questions about your faith and that you should always continue to seek truth. God bless.
joshcfriesen 8 months ago
@joshcfriesen "we digress."
Right, do NOT let the FACTS get in the way of what you are trying to do??
omiolo 8 months ago
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@joshcfriesen "Its through faith in the REAL Jesus Christ"
so ALL you have to do is BELIEVE and you go to YOUR heaven?
omiolo 8 months ago
As The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints grows, so does the publishing of the Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ. The 150 millionth copy of the Book of Mormon was recently printed, passing another milestone in the book's 181-year history.
omiolo 10 months ago
150 Million and Counting: The Book of Mormon Reaches Another Milestone
omiolo 10 months ago
Mormons open Temple to public for first time in 28 years
omiolo 10 months ago
The LDS is now inviting the public to tour their newly renovated Atlanta Georgia Temple, 6450 Barfield Road in Sandy Springs. This is the first time the building has been opened to the public since its original dedication in June of 1983. ...
omiolo 10 months ago
Public Invited to Tour Atlanta Georgia Temple
LDS Newsroom
omiolo 10 months ago
Right around the time the curtain was dropping on the opening night of Broadway's new "South Park"-inspired musical, "The Book of Mormon," I was in Salt Lake City, Utah, having dinner with two top-level elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, plus a few other saints (as observant Mormons are known), as well as three rabbis and a scholar of ancient Hebrew from American Jewish University (AJU)
omiolo 10 months ago
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President Thomas S. Monson will deliver the commencement address to Dixie State College graduates.
President Monson will speak at the two-year college in St. George on May 2.
omiolo 10 months ago
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Shut the hell up and leave me alone and if you don't I will report you for hurassment.
JPRamon68 11 months ago
Marriage is between a man and a woman.
Unless of course you are Joseph's Myth or Breedem Young. In which case marriage is between a man and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman and some teenage girls.
drinkswithnedkelly 11 months ago
@drinkswithnedkelly "Marriage is between a man and a woman."
correct, LDS have ALWAYS denounced redefining marriage between ANYONE but man and woman.
omiolo 10 months ago
@omiolo The LDS Doctrine and Covenants section 132 still says that polygamy is not just allowed, but demanded "if ye abide not that covenant, then are ye damned" Both Smith and Young each had over 30 wives.
drinkswithnedkelly 10 months ago
@drinkswithnedkelly "The LDS Doctrine and Covenants section 132 still says that polygamy is not just allowed, but demanded"
Actually that is NOT in context and section 132 (the parts on polygamy) was superseded by the manifesto. You must NOT have studied that in ANTImormon school. That is OK, they usually do NOT teach relevant information.
omiolo 10 months ago
@omiolo Section 132 is still in the D&C despite the manifesto, which incidentally only came about because church assets were seized.
drinkswithnedkelly 10 months ago
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@drinkswithnedkelly "Section 132 is still in the D&C despite the manifesto"
and the law of Moses is STILL in the Bible despite the beatitudes. I fail to see your point unless you are somehow trying to throw mud.
The second part is PURE wishful thinking on your part.
omiolo 10 months ago
Mormons are not being attacked. They are the attackers. They are not the victims here (no Mormon marriage was changed after Prop 8). This is a classic conservative reversal. They abuser imagines himself the abused. The Mormon church excluded blacks from meaningful participation until 1978. They continue to keep women out of meaningful leadership roles. They are always behind the curve. That's their selling point--join us, we're stuck in another era.
zubDabber 11 months ago
@zubDabber I want you to know that God loves you.
MormonsLoveFamilies 11 months ago
@MormonsLoveFamilies God doesn't love lies or distortions of the truth. Wake up. Become more conscious. Learn more about the world. That what God loves.
zubDabber 11 months ago
@zubDabber God still loves you.
MormonsLoveFamilies 11 months ago
@MormonsLoveFamilies It's true. She does.
zubDabber 11 months ago
@zubDabber Well you wouldnt understand. Since you have a low IQ (or at least show you do) you really wouldnt understand! So peace out!
troll2282 11 months ago
@troll2282 Very intelligent response! You should join a debate team, become a lawyer or go into politics. Your arguments are superb.
zubDabber 11 months ago
@zubDabber Agreed! The LDS opened Pandora's Box for what they did with Prop 8. Let's see, The "Mormons" spent over 20 million dollars for Prop 8. The LDS performs Electric Shock Therapy of LDS gay members. The Mormons had a gay couple arrested for a kiss. The LDS has no means to be talking because the LDS is just a Bigot ignorant religion. BTW, love your last Phrase
JPRamon68 11 months ago
@JPRamon68 I want you to know that God loves you.
MormonsLoveFamilies 11 months ago
@MormonsLoveFamilies Please, don't kiss my ass. I know that God loves me but coming from you all, you are a pathetic joke.
JPRamon68 11 months ago
@JPRamon68 God still loves you.
MormonsLoveFamilies 11 months ago
@JPRamon68 "don't kiss my ass"
aren't you a PLEASANT cuss?
omiolo 10 months ago
@JPRamon68 "for what they did with Prop 8"
we did NOT do enough. But thanks for ALL your lies and DISTORTIONS. Very telling!
omiolo 10 months ago
"Bright, faithful Latter-Day Saints"? I testify that our Father-Mother denounces celestial marriage: "Woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck...For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying...until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be" Matt. 24:38, 39. Beliefs of matter-marriage do not enter the heavenly state.
Lovingvictory1 11 months ago
@Lovingvictory1 I want you to know that God loves you.
MormonsLoveFamilies 11 months ago
I am not sure I understand. How is justified criticism (when it is justified) the same as "mockery" and "pointing fingers"?
larodem 1 year ago
@larodem I want you to know that God loves you.
MormonsLoveFamilies 1 year ago
@MormonsLoveFamilies Well, that´s nice, but it does´nt really answer my question.
larodem 1 year ago
@larodem God still loves you.
MormonsLoveFamilies 1 year ago
I am not going to talk about the “how” of teaching but rather about the “how” of learning. There can be a significant difference between what a teacher says and what those in the class hear or learn.
omiolo 1 year ago
As a member of the Sunday School general presidency, I feel I should begin my remarks this morning by saying, “Good morning, class.”
My message today is to all those who have been called to teach, in whatever organization you are serving and whether you are a recent convert to the Church or a teacher with years of experience.
omiolo 1 year ago
What matters most is the attitude or spirit by which the teacher teaches.
omiolo 1 year ago
This week marks a milestone for BYU-Idaho with the dedication of the new 15,000-seat BYU-Idaho Center, a university gathering place perhaps unlike any other in the world. The dedication will mark an end of a remarkable 10-year period of construction in Rexburg since BYU-Idaho was announced as a four-year school.
omiolo 1 year ago
This is a legitimate argument. All languages have words that can mean different things depending on a variety of factors including context. Dr. William Hamblin notes, for instance, that "dialectical variations of the same Hebrew word can mean ram, deer, ibex or mountain goat" due to "different dialects and different ecological zones" (quoted in "Shaken Faith Syndrome," p. 42).
omiolo 1 year ago
Here's a topic I never thought I would ponder in this space: The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But the Mormon church has come up quite a
bit in the j. newsroom lately, mostly because of our newest blog,
"Latter-day Shalom
omiolo 1 year ago
The pinnacle of our temple worship is the sealing of couples and families together in the Abrahamic Covenant. Children born to these couples are said to be "born in the [Abrahamic] covenant," and
people who are baptized into the LDS Church are also considered to have entered the covenant as a member of the House of Israel.
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo very important
MormonsLoveFamilies 1 year ago
While a hemispheric model for Book of Mormon geography looks attractive to modern readers familiar with maps of North and South America, when we closely examine the text, it becomes apparent that such a model is untenable. As anthropologist Dr. John Sorenson pointed out years ago, the Nephite scripture consistently points to relatively short distances between Book of Mormon cities.
omiolo 1 year ago
I spent this weekend cocooned on my couch in my pyjamas, watching men I love like distant grandfathers expound on the gospel as taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Twice a year the members of my faith gather in assembly halls, local meeting houses and around their television sets for two days of sermons from our leaders. I typically relish this time. I spent Saturday taking notes on serving our fellow man, consecrating my life to God and simplifying our busy lives.
omiolo 1 year ago
On Sunday, Boyd K. Packer, an apostle in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, issued a firm condemnation of gay marriage and expressed the view that same-sex attraction is something that can be changed.
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo
I guess that it probably could be changed, with like, a lobotomy... or coma... But you know, that's the same way you'd make a straight person gay wouldn't it? Because after all, I definitely chose to live a life that's super hard, 6000 miles away from the person I love because I'm full of Satan. Oh, wait, is this supposed to be wrong and illegal, BEFORE i was ordained to Laurel president? Because I was gay the whoooooollle time, and then some.
xXpolloXx 1 year ago
@xXpolloXx "But you know, that's the same way you'd make a straight person gay wouldn't it?"
actually there are drugs that they use to change homosexual animals into heterosexual animals. So far they are 100% effective.
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo
Link please. The dynamics of the animal kingdom at large is by far different than the dynamics of our own. I don't see how it would be possible to test these "drugs" with any real proof of improvement or the lack thereof. Last I knew there was no real way to communicate whether or not an animal is exclusively homosexual for the same reasons that any human would be. So if you would, please post a link to the actual research, or at least a real/reliable science journal.
xXpolloXx 1 year ago
@xXpolloXx "Link please."
You do NOT do research and studying on homosexuality? Where do you get your information from? THE ADVOCATE? LOL
omiolo 1 year ago
During his remarks today at the first session of the 180th Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church President Thomas S. Monson announced that the Church would build five new temples. The new temples will be built in Hartford, Connecticut; Indianapolis, Indiana; Tijuana, Mexico; Urdaneta, Philippines; and Lisbon, Portugal.
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo The blessings of the eternities are closer and closer every day for the Saints of God.
MormonsLoveFamilies 1 year ago
PANTS PANTS PANTS. PANTS PANTS, BANANA PANTS!!!! <--- that's all i hear when omiolo tries to say words :) tehehehe! but it's sooo funny to listen to a dog argue that it is infact a unicorn by barking. :D
xXpolloXx 1 year ago
@xXpolloXx I want you to know that God loves you.
MormonsLoveFamilies 1 year ago
@xXpolloXx You're a STRANGE cuss!!!
omiolo 1 year ago
In addition to the personal study tools, the new site's log-in capability allows church members and leaders to access new versions of their ward and stake directories and calendars. Members can edit their own directory information and upload pictures of individuals and families. A church member can see a map of his own ward boundaries -- including a satellite view -- identifying the homes of members in the ward.
omiolo 1 year ago
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xXpolloXx 1 year ago
@omiolo
That's not creepy at all.... and yeah, I am pretty strange, but I get tired of fighting fire with fire, so why not throw some banana on that flame and make a tasty snack?
xXpolloXx 1 year ago
A "Church News and Events" section brings together headlines and links to the church's official news sources, including the Public Affairs Newsroom, church magazines, the Mormon Channel and LDS Church News (a supplement to the Deseret News). . .
omiolo 1 year ago
One of the counselors in that Tallahassee, Fla., stake was Robert L. Millet, who is now a popular author and professor of ancient scripture at BYU. Millet told a class at BYU's Campus Education Week that the woman's list was "very forbidding" and went on for a number of pages.
omiolo 1 year ago
PROVO, Utah -- She was faithful, but overwhelmed. So she wrote a letter to her stake president. He, in turn, read it to his counselors:
"Dear President, I want to do everything the Lord expects of me. I want to do everything the church expects of me. I decided to make a list of the things that I've been asked to do in church in the last six months. Enclosed is a copy of that list ..."
omiolo 1 year ago
Typically -- in customary Israelite fashion -- the Lehites re-named those places through which they traveled. In this instance, however, Ishmael was buried in a place that "was called Nahom." In 1952, based strictly on the text, Hugh Nibley suggested that the place was already known as Nahom prior to the Lehite arrival.
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo Isn't that fascinating?
MormonsLoveFamilies 1 year ago
Davis, a Mormon, also embraced the city's Muslim community and fasted for Ramadan to show his effort to be culturally sensitive
omiolo 1 year ago
SALT LAKE CITY -- It's the next best thing to a time machine, as history comes sharply alive and into focus with Shipler photographs.
The history of the Salt Lake area, in the early 1900s, was chronicled extensively by the Shipler family.
omiolo 1 year ago
William Schryver, "The Meaning and Purpose of the Kirtland Egyptian
Papers"
Shirley Ricks, "Editing Hugh Nibley: From Manuscript to Book"
Stephen Ricks, "Proper Names in the Book of Mormon"
Matthew Roper, "Joseph Smith and the Question of Book of Mormon
Geography"
omiolo 1 year ago
Valerie Hudson, "The Two Trees"
Gary Lawrence, "How Americans View Mormonism and What We Can Do
about It"
Steve Mayfield, "Big Love: The Truth, the Whole Truth, and. . .
Well, Maybe Not?"
Daniel Peterson, "The Obligation to Do Apologetics"
omiolo 1 year ago
"APA (American Psyc Assoc)affirms its 1973 position that homosexuality per se is not a
diagnosable mental disorder. Recent publicized efforts to repathologize
homosexuality by claiming that it can be cured are often guided not by
rigorous scientific or psychiatric research, but sometimes by religious
and political for...ces opposed to full civil rights for gay men and
lesbians. APA recommends that the APA respond quickly and appropriately
as a scientific organization.
flamingbuddha1972 1 year ago
"We wanted to tell people about the church, but nobody responded," recalled Stephan Lendel, a 1991 LDS convert who now serves as a district president in Jicin. "Some did later, but nobody really wished to hear about it."
Hynec Renza, a 15-year convert from Prague, summed up the ironies about religion and beliefs following the newfound freedoms, saying the Czech people struggle with authority and organization, with leanings toward atheism and apathy.
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo Atheism is the opposite apathy.
petepamf 1 year ago
@petepamf Atheism is an excuse to FEEL elite.
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo I have to stop commenting on religious fanatics posts.. My bad.
petepamf 1 year ago