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Hermey, you and your wife are geniuses. Wow- what a great response. I'm going to use you wise advise with many thanks to you.

I know, I know, this dead horse has been beaten to death already, but I've still got the bruised soul and I can't seem to get past people rubbing it in that I don't pay tithing- and, according to them, I will most likely burn in hell. When I tell them that we try to be generous with our goods and mo...

Wow, thanks for posting this, as I feel there was a lot of thought that went into this, and many points are addressed in a short article. I'll have to say that I agree with Tanner, and feel for him because maybe now members will double down on him and his family and prove his point. Instead of sayin...

Apostles- now that's an enigma is it not? We have no idea who the original twelve apostles were (sixth article of faith). Oops. The Bible is no help as they list different ones in different books. Paul- who was that chap and how'd he get to be an apostle? No one knows. Half of the New Testament are ...

Interesting take. I think that the church has made progress, but they still hold on to lies about quite a few things. And a lot of Mormons are dishonest. Used to see a lot of excommunications back in the 70's and early 80's and we don't see much of that any more. The thing that I've noticed is how t...

It was actually a "drawn sword" in his original quotes (I believe someone added "flaming" years later). However, there was an angel with a flaming sword who supposedly guarded the tree of life ;) Angels and swords- that's a hoot- but it is easy to tell the difference between the two angels. 1. Tree ...

Interesting thoughts, esp. alas's comments. The whole atonement thing is silly to me and always has been, growing up in a part-member home as I was, I learned to be question things early and never got past this one. I see no evidence of this being taught in the early Mormon church, but may be wrong,...

Agree with the previous posts. This is a disappointment to see Oaks doing this sort of thing. Church needs to set up a damage control for this sort of thing. This sets the church back big time. His Pres. Kimball reference is dated- 1975 for crying out loud- and shows only indifference to those outli...

I like this- Joseph Smith's most awkward moment...."um...a...I hate to ask this God and God...but can we shake hands? Sorta, kinda need to know that you aren't the...you know...uh...the devil."

Seems like that through the years the “humble brag” has evolved, so maybe we need to update our list of humble braggage. I’ll start: 1. All my sons earned their Eagle Scout badge. Nowadays- who the hell cares-church gave scouts the heave ho- think of something else to brag about. Help fill out the l...

Perhaps there is no god as defined by the Christian faiths, there is something that binds our souls. Maybe, maybe not. Yet still and all, perhaps there is a spiritual realm that we don't understand. Something that connects one human person to another- not all this families can be together forever ta...

Probably all thought about this. The closest star being what- five light years away and all. Lots of space. Boils down to this and we can't have it both ways. Either God has always been God, omni-everything or he was a man and evolved into what he is now. Got to be one way of the other as I see it, ...

Thanks for checking in again. Sort of missed hearing about things going on over there in the old country across the pond, and from you. We don't hear a lot about the church growth or lack of it in Europe, apart from a few countries. England still seems to be going along but I did not know how grim i...

Used to be that there was a lot of talk about "going back to Missouri". I knew of people who relocated there to get a start on it, but came back west in Idaho after a while when Christ decided it wasn't time to come on back yet. Not much talk about that any more. A few things: Adam, first baptized, ...

But let's not forget, the thing that offends God most and is a victory for Satan is using, Mormon or LDS rather than the Church of cheese and rice and rattle day snakes.

Did they fire Daniel Peterson? Is that old news? I don't check this very often.

Very thoughtful and interesting post. Thank you. For some of us, I'm pretty sure that even when we were youngsters, the idea of one god knowing everyone's thoughts and deeds from the beginning of the universe until now was absurd. The old verbiage in the scriptures about God knowing the hairs on you...

There seems to have been from the beginning of Mormonism, a struggle between righteousness and self-righteousness. Certainly Joseph Smith got his leg caught in the self-righteous trap from time to time and had to deal with the consequences. Recently, my TBM son-in-law shared something with me that h...

Underwear: Has nothing to do with religion any more than which socks you wear. Choose what suits you best. Booze: Pull a cork once in a while but be careful. Have to be careful not to do it in front of Mormons. They tattle. Coffee and tea: come the hell on....this is not bad for anyone. Temples and ...

Thanks for sharing this article, which I read with interest. The spooky part were the comments below the article. Yowzer. There were comments that were saying that this article was not only incorrect, but that Desert News should not have printed it....or posted it...not sure what they do these days,...