NOM

Rape, torture, and Cannibalism in the BOM is pretty sick. (Moro. 9.)

Once in a while I ponder the contrast between what they did in Solomon's ancient temple, as commanded by God/LDS Jesus, and what is done in modern temples. All that gross stuff cutting up and burning animals was repulsive. And according to Joseph Smith it has to be done in the future to "fulfill all...

JFro's Mormon stories podcasts are excellent. I enjoy the "Just the facts, Ma'am" approach. Thanks a million, dude.

Critically analyzing the gospel (yeah I know we're not suppose to do that!) has a price. It doesn't add up! The ultimate goal is to be like God and get a planet and raise a crop of other potential Gods. Well, at least the that used be the goal. :roll: If so, why are so many literally unable to fulfi...

The proliferation of podcasts dealing with the LDS Church from a critical perspective has been remarkable. Since my shelf broke around 2010 there have been many, many new podcasts come out, and I have a limited amount of time. How do you chose what to listen to? Or, have you moved past listening to ...

That makes a lot of sense. Making lemonade out lemons.

The other reason the Kinderhook Plates matter is because it shows that Joseph Smith both believed in and was behind the Book of Abraham GAEL since we know he went to it when doing the "partial translation" of the Kinderhook Plates. I'm not sure why apologists seem to be going all in on the Book of ...

Riverside woman awarded $2.3 billion in sex abuse case - Los Angeles Times www.latimes.com "During the time she was abused, Doe disclosed the abuse to multiple members of the Mormon church, including a bishop. Instead of notifying the police, the bishop gathered Doe, her mother and her stepfather in...

“And the Lord called his people Zion, because they were of one heart and one mind, and dwelt in righteousness; and there was no poor among them” (Moses 7:18; The people can call themselves "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" or "Zion," or "the only true and living Church" speaking "col...

Thanks Red, an excellent summary for a machine.

Thanks for the repairs, admin.

Thanks Corsair. If we ever need a fundraiser I'm in.

The GhatGPT comments are interesting. I've been talking to my wife about AI. This gives our discussion an interesting new angle. Thanks Red for providing this perspective. I sense that TBM's and AI have many similarities. They both have to be programmed. I'd be interested in what ChatGPT says about ...

I was going to say that Trump is a lot like Joseph Smith. A least #1-9 could apply to Joseph.

I hope I don't offend any comic book aficionados out there, but I think Mormonism is to spirituality what comic books are to literature.

Maybe he just read the bible? He was obviously trying to one-up the Bible in many ways, so he had to have at least as much violence to make it feel like it was in the same genre. I agree with this. I see a thought process that goes like 1. The bible is scripture, 2. The bible has violence. 3. To be...

This was a great interview, it was Ehrman at his best. And it raised a lot of good questions. The big concern for me is Christian evangelicals and fundamentalists who see an apocalypse in the future, and may be willing to do things to make it happen. At the same time ignoring climatic indicators, or...

We all know the BOM is violent, but is it gratuitous violence? I'm asking from the perspective of one who believes Joseph Smith put the violence in there. Did he have reasons, conscious or unconscious, for adding violent stories? Did his experience in life, including his surgery, have anything to do...

LDS bubble mentality, it's so astonishingly goofy and c_lt-like.

Joseph was an opportunistic serial predator. On the ranch my Grandpa used to say once a bear or wolf got a taste of a cow, or more usually a calf, it would focus on the calves, to the exclusion of its usual food/prey. A side note: C.S. Lewis once said something like God doesn’t reveal himself to us ...