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Although I've not much to do with the church, apart from going to an occasional baby blessing or the like, I see no need to officially resign. What's the point? There's nothing that can come of it that serves any purpose says I. As my dear departed Dad used to say "It's all bull s***". I agree. Anyt...

Thought provoking post, and one I enjoyed. Thank you RH. Funerals are difficult in the LDS culture because the attendees claim they "know" that the deceased is now in a better place. (sigh) The big event funeral for Monson was advertised on TV last night. On TV mind you. This smacks of everything Je...

Bart Erhman....the beginning of the end of my belief in Christianity started when I read, twice, the book " Misquoting Jesus". It was about ten years ago. Shattered my belief in the bible. The question then remained- if the bible was phony, how about the rest of religion. I read a bunch of C.S. Lewi...

With all due respect to those who liked Monson, I will say this: I did not. Reasons: 1. His sing-song voice drove me batty. 2. He told stories that I thought were embellished. One I know was because I knew the circumstances and he got it wrong. 3. He led the charge to "Let's go shopping" at the mall...

Whoa, this is some scary stuff folks. The term “You can be right, or you can be happy” really applies here. Your friend shows a lot of maturity but it is difficult to imagine how it would be to live with someone so steeped in what they “know” is right for her nine children. A forty five minute conve...

Couple years ago- maybe more- the LDS church (I refuse to call them "The Church" any more) tried a PR move to show that they were swell folks and were not a bunch of snobs that favored a particular type of underwear and refused to drink coffee or admit that it's not bad for you. Anyway, I ramble at ...

Bednar's never been one of my faves and it stems around one thing and one only. At a question and answer session he opened the meeting up with, "I'll try my best to answer the questions, but sometimes it will be 'I don't know'. That said, I won't even try to answer questions like, 'where is the swor...

There’s what, over forty thousand religions in the world? Something like that, they are like diseases- they exist, but we don’t know what they all are, where they all are, or how they came to be in the first place- let alone the cure. Really- where did all these diseases come from. God? The devil? N...

Wow, you have been through a lot noble one. I see you have a lot of courage, which is good. Never had any use for Pres. Kimball's book. It is just a story- his story- but that does not make it true. Same with Bednar, and frankly the same with anyone. We each have a story to tell, and if it is true, ...

First of all, I think that the Indian Placement Program was born of good intentions. President Kimball was doing his best to do what the Book of Mormon asked him and the LDS church to do. When President Kimball died, so died the Indian/Lamanite programs. The reason? Return on investment. The Indians...

Like some of the rest of you, when I heard about Tom Cristofferson, and heard his story I had a deep respect for him. Seemed like a genuine nice guy and I was happy that he had found his middle ground and happiness in being gay and accepting it. At the time I first heard of him, though I'm not certa...

As a youngster, growing up in a time when the Second World War was fresh on the minds of my parents, both of whom served in the military during the war and saw awful things, I often heard this line, "There are no atheists in fox holes". Of course I knew what fox holes this was pertaining to, those t...

Sometimes I go months without looking at NOM. Seems like most of the topics get resurrected again and again, but not in this case. This is an original and thought provoking thread, in my opinion, and this is how I see it being something a lot of us can learn from. First, it is not better in all case...

It sort of depends on if your beloved is open minded or not. Even still, it's a difficult situation because Mormons are taught at very young age by those they love the most that they are the lucky ones to be "born underneath a cov-net". It's not difficult to see why people stay. They like the relati...

Elder Oaks is one of the smartest of the general authorities. If you have spent time around him as some of us have, you realize that this fellow is- or has been brilliant. He really helped launch "Dialogue, a Journal of Mormon Thought". He has a fresh uncluttered mind then. Sweet man with a good hea...

Seems to me that religion in general has become popular with many small-minded folk. There are and have been many brilliant people in the church- JS being one and brother Brig. Smart. Although they, in my opinion, used the church and the membership to bolster their egos and take beautiful women to b...

I totally agree that temple work is pretty silly, though I hesitate to use that word, but I never bought into it. There are those who find a great deal of happiness though, feeling that they are doing something worthwhile and I am happy that they find happiness that way. As someone else said, the te...

Can't speak for the rest of you, but one of the things I found most hard to believe in regards to religion, was that there was a god that was happy to reward you if you were good, heaven, but just as willing to send you to an awful place, hot, brimstone, the devil, all the scary stuff- hell. Well I ...

Spent the last couple of days with a long-time friend. He's a lifelong Mormon, has never smoked, drank, all the no nos- he's stayed away from that. Pays tithing, has had plenty of callings. Super active guy his entire life. He never cheated on his wife, who he'd married in the temple over twenty fiv...

The saddest part about this article is not that the author built up the afterlife as something special, but how she managed, from the very beginning of the article, to run herself down by implying that she didn't quite measure up compared to the rest of the overachievers in her life. Pitiful. The th...