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I have been reading a book called "The Hijacked Conscience" by Debra Peck. It discusses people who are OCD with regards to religious scrupulosity. I'm thinking this book should have been written fifty years ago. Or maybe thousands of years ago. I'm also thinking about scripture passages that trigger ...

This is a fascinating survey, and offers so many angles to view religion in the United States. For me it was fascinating to view the median age of the various religious groups. I was surprised that LDS median age went from 44 to 42. This is the opposite of what I'm seeing in the Salt Lake Valley ...

sorry about the loss of your first child. The Church does build up false hope when they promote "miraculous" events which are usually rare exceptions to medical issues. I don't claim to know as much as Church Leaders, but I do hope I don't preach as much BS as they do. And I don't use oaths to ...

Yeah they play the Jesus card like they had the copyright on Jesus. But Jesus was here before the Church was. And the best place to learn about Jesus is still the four gospels, not in some borrowed temple ceremony. The only thing I remember about garments is that the one piecers never fit right ...

You give an interesting twist to a question I've pondered for a long time. My experience is that most young people today are taught to believe in a Church and/or a scripture, rather than develop their own concept of God. But some young people, fewer than half it seems, seek to explore God on their ...

That's a new and helpful way of looking at the situation, Alas. You are always a light and not a judge. Thanks.

Is this "rodeo conscience" or "human conscience" the same as the sociological concept of: Collective Consciousness ? In your overthinking of the concept Mr. Blues, are you trying to say that you think the concept is "real," or not? The thing that struck me is the announcer was speaking for a group ...

I'm reminded of rumors of possible manipulation of Thomas Monson in his dementia tainted last few months. I recall the Exclusion policy was discovered in November 2015, and Monson passed Jan. 2, 2018.

How sad. Remember it's only been a couple of generations since there were segregated restrooms and water fountains here in "the land of the free and the home of the brave." Strange how history repeats itself. :roll: Hagoth, tell your children to hang in there. The "excluders" may be shouting now ...

How many planets will it take to provide all the matter needed to resurrect everyone who lived on Earth? How about the animals? Insects? Bacteria? And the space to house them on the paradisiacal earth. I was taught that every blade of grass has a spirit and will be resurrected. Look at a field of ...

I’ve heard a number of funny apologetics in this over the years. One was that there are different races of people because they came from different heavenly mothers. White folks came from one mother, Hispanics from another, Japanese from another, middle eastern from another….whatever allows them to m ...

I've heard descriptions of the human conscience, from the New Testament to Huckleberry Finn, and at the risk of overthinking, I'll add one more. I went to a small town, well Tremonton, Utah, rodeo last night. The thing that is sticking with me is the announcer. Like our Conscience, his voice was ...

What does Elder Pearson say that would put him on the McConkie, Packer, Oaks list?

It's like saying, "I'm being relatively honest." Again- the question: Relative to what? Jim Bakker? Ken Copeland? The obvious religious scammers who are on TV? Choosing to say "The combined income from all these business interests is relatively small" is intentionally choosing language that is vague ...

The polygamy deniers are like regular TBM's, except they admit that mistakes were made, mainly by Brigham Young. The one's I've listened to try to sound supportive of current leaders, and they try to defend most Church doctrines. In their effort to defend Joseph Smith and his lying about polygamy ...

Did Bruce R. McConkie do more harm than good in the LDS Church? When I was growing up "Mormon Doctrine" was the go to source for settling any gospel disagreement. McConkie was quoted often, and after Joseph Fielding Smith died, he was considered by many to be THE greatest scriptural and doctrinal ...

I read the book, but the interviews add fascinating details to the narrative of.... the "Rest of the Story," as Paul Harvey used to say.
Hmm, mentioning Paul Harvey is a giveaway that I'm darned old.

Matt Harris's recent book, Second Class Saints, shows that the Church actually wants to hide, or at least obscure how the Church makes such decisions as the change in their racial doctrine in 1978. The mean spirited First Presidency message of 1970-71 is a example of how some in the hierarchy used ...

Matt Harris's recent book, Second Class Saints, shows that the Church actually wants to hide, or at least obscure how the Church makes such decisions as the change in their racial doctrine in 1978. The mean spirited First Presidency message of 1970-71 is a example of how some in the hierarchy used ...

Until recently, they hid the numerous changes in the D&C. Now they obscure them in the Joseph Smith papers.