DISQUS

Edmond · 1 year ago

Weird...are you a mormon who left the church or something? You sound pretty bitter. All the mormons I know are nice people, and I'd guess that the cartoons and things you linked to are probably made by other religions to make mormons look bad. I know for a fact that they don't hate gays.

Anyway, I'm rather uncomfortable reading any sort of hate speech, be it about a specific religion or not. Please have some respect for your fellow humans.

jrrrl · 1 year ago

Maybe it should tell you something that you assume someone who sounds angry at the Mormon church has an intimate knowledge of the church.

I don't think ex-convicts are as bitter about jail as ex-Mormons are of the Mormon church.

Brady Brim-DeForest · 1 year ago

Duncan – thanks for taking a humorous spin on this. I find it very funny that the LDS website is down. This whole thing crashed my own server this afternoon.

Joe Turner · 1 year ago

Hah hah hah!!!

Wow I haven't read something so ignorant since I read garbage from the Tanner's.

It was entertaining though.

Glad I'm not on your level buddy ;^)

And if I remember correctly, that cartoon is from the God Makers, which is full of blatent lies. Good choice of reference materials, makes you sound REALLY CREDIBLE.

Tom · 1 year ago

Yeah, I have to vote with the seeming majority here. I understand it's an attempt at humor and I get that humor can sometimes miss the mark. That said, this comes across as pretty low class. There's a difference between jokingly poking fun at someone and flat out saying you think they're bad people.

The line is clearly pretty thin but this seemed like an attack to me and I'm pretty liberal in this area

JG · 1 year ago

Yeah, that video is from an evangelical anti-mormon movie called "The God Makers." It was so bad it was denounced by the Anti-Defamation League.

Try to find a way to make fun of us without getting to cozy with the 700 Club folks, eh?

CyndyA · 1 year ago

Wow. First off, that was hilarious, and I'd have found it hilarious if the rumor was about the Vatican buying Facebook as well. I'm sort of shocked that people are SO up in arms about this... WTF? Have we lost all sense of humor? The rumor is so completely out there, how could that NOT be news-worthy? It sure beats another Microsoft-Yahoo rumor or wah-wah blogosphere bitchfight over PR any day of the week.

Tom · 1 year ago

Oh yes, how could someone be so sensitive over a bad attempt at humor: http://profy.com/2008/07/26/misuse-of-social-me...

Elizabeth de Vere · 1 year ago

A much better video would be Southpark. At least they are funny. And do a better job at research.

BMOC2001 · 1 year ago

This isn't even funny (I'm assuming it's an attempt at humor). There are plenty of funny Mormon jokes that actually poke fun at Mormon culture, but this is just regurgitated evangelical hate language in the hands of an uneducated jackass. The Jews wouldn't tolerate it. The blacks wouldn't tolerate it. The homosexual community wouldn't either. What makes you think hate based dialog is OK on Mormons? The only 'funny' part is that you're so overwhelmingly wrong on your facts it looks like some inbred redneck wrote it. We're not laughing with you Duncan... we're laughing at you.

Here a start on your path to finding what Mormons really believe. www(dot) mormon (dot) org

Charles · 1 year ago

What a load of crap. Obviously didn't do any real research about Mormonism.

CyndyA · 1 year ago

Duncan, Disqus is hurling and won't let me reply to a reply.

@Tom, you seriously compare joking about murdering a baby to joking about a religion???? Oy.

The main reason that some religions get SO much bad press is because of the inability to look at it from an outsider's perspective and the tendency to take any poke or dig as a personal affront. I got over it a long time ago. I'm married to an Atheist. Looking at my beliefs through his eyes and poking doesn't threaten me, and I never understand the reaction of anger and defensiveness instead of a reaction of "You know, I see why you think that... here's why I think you are wrong." Does anyone here think that a single comment left here will change anyone's feelings about the LDS church or will it instead reinforce impressions?

Tom · 1 year ago

Well first, since you can obviously read I’m just going to assume you are intentionally slandering the author of that piece you quoted because he said nothing about murdering a baby. He specifically said "While it is hard not to feel bad for his brutally murdered wife and child, not to mention his wounded daughter, Eddie's suicide itself is the stuff of happy thoughts". So in fact he felt murdering a baby was a tragedy but was happy that the guy who had done so was dead.

On that note, claiming someone was making a joke about murdering a baby when they weren't is really kind of offensive in it's own right.

But back to the piece itself I also didn’t think his comments were all that tactful but that’s why I’m not a hypocrite and you are. The bottom line is that you can’t get offended by a poor attempt at humor and then criticize others for being offended by another poor attempt at humor. Either it’s ok to be offended by people’s bad jokes or it’s not. Period. Because any other stance means you’re demanding everyone be like you (e.g. it’s ok to say something offensive if you aren’t offended but not ok if you are offended)

iamse7en · 1 year ago

This post was the biggest waste of my time.

I wish I could have those 2 minutes back.

CyndyA · 1 year ago

Tom, at the point at which anyone compares mocking a religion to mocking the loss of human life, I have to seriously wonder about the religion that would put itself over the creations of its god. No, that doesn't make me a hypocrite. It makes me pretty consistent in my beliefs, which involve a creator that's all-forgiving. I hardly think there is a god of any religion who would find it necessary to smite a spammer, but then again, I'm not up on all the religions other than my own. Last time I checked though, there was no "Thou shalt not spam" listed in the Commandments.

You impugn my intelligence, call me a hypocrite, and that does what? Would that be more or less likely to make me sympathetic to your POV? I'm not sure you read the rest of my comment at all, since you didn't address it. I was discussing my article with a fellow writer who thought I should have included MORE about LDS history as a rationale for the rumor's veracity. I pointed out that it was a rumor, had a tenuous link to the realm of possibility. Rumors like this are news ALL THE TIME. How many times have I read that Google/Microsoft/Yahoo is buying Digg? It's part and parcel of the news cycle. Duncan's post pokes at the rumor, and suddenly he's using hate speech? Where are the Bigfoot believers calling him out? Or the TechCrunch believers? Why is the LDS church supposed to be above the same treatment given to any tech rumor out there?

Jesse Stay · 1 year ago

Duncan, I know you're doing this in good fun, and frankly, I'd love to have Sundays off from Facebook, but as you go further into the article it does come across pretty much as "poking fun" at Mormons. We can laugh at ourselves, and I get the jokes, but we seem lately to be the punchline of many jokes around the web lately and it's bordering on inconsiderate. There is definitely some bias to your article that I know won't sit well with a lot of the Mormon faith (much of it, as you point out, is untrue, so why share it?). That said, thanks for putting some humor to the situation - the whole Mormon-Facebook acquisition thing is pretty ridiculous.

Just some corrections:

-We don't *dislike* Gay/Lesbian/etc. people. I have many friends myself, some of them Mormon even that are Gay. We simply don't condone acting out on the behavior. And even if you do, we don't hate you because of it - we're taught to love one another. Any evidence to the contrary is wrong.
-The church's outreach program doesn't raise funds - the Church is 100% member-funded
-The scriptures you're quoting on African Americans are taken out of context and are not referring to African Americans/White Americans at all - in fact, it's referring to people of an entirely different time period, and much of that in a symbolic rather than literal context - the church has been completely forthcoming on that with the scriptures you quote
-Caffeine is not forbidden in the LDS Church - Coffee and Tea are. In fact, several LDS Apostles are known to have a preference for Coca Cola or Pepsi. It is a personal preference not to drink if you know any Mormons that have made the choice.
-The video you're sharing is an anti-Mormon video distributed by radical protestants intending to harm the Mormon faith and prove its principles are wrong. It has never been endorsed by the Mormon Church, is very inaccurate, and portrays the church in a completely inaccurate, out of context picture. I would highly recommend you use a more accurate video, perhaps one produced by the Church itself to share what the Mormon Church claims to believe.

Again, I don't take too much offense to this, but there are some serious inaccuracies here, and you're going to seriously offend some people by keeping the inaccuracies in place.

jrrrl · 1 year ago

Um, I don't condone of you acting out Mormon behavior. I don't dislike you, just the horrible disgusting choice you made to become Mormon. That's alright then, right? Once the LDS church stops "not condoning" people's behavior that doesn't affect you I will stop "not condoning" the Mormon church. Maybe then you'll stop being criticized in an "inconsiderate" way.

Jesse Stay · 1 year ago

Jery, that's like saying "I hate the horrible disgusting choice you
made to become American. Once the American government stops 'not
condoning' people's behavior that doesn't affect you I will stop 'not
condoning' the American Government". The American government, the
Catholic church, Southern baptist convention, and more have all
condoned different ways of living. If you really look at it though,
the Mormon church has been pretty peaceful and welcoming about it all
- you don't see us standing outside abortion clinics or Gay weddings
shouting at those practicing the behavior against our teachings. You
see us welcoming you as friends, cheering on your weddings, and
recognizing that while you don't have the same beliefs as us, we can
still share what we do have in common.

jrrrl · 1 year ago

Most Americans can't change the fact that they're American and America doesn't have a doctrine saying LGBT people are bad. Most gay people can't change the fact that they're gay and gay people don't have dogma saying that certain other groups are bad. Mormons, though, can stop being Mormons any time and they can stop supporting anti-gay political and social rhetoric at any time. (And anti-woman, and white supremecist rhetoric, but that's a different story.)

Just because the Westboro Baptist Church and abortion clinic bombers are out there doesn't mean the Mormon Church is less intolerant and hurtful. Mormons have significant political and economic power and the Mormon Church has a negative effect on many non-Mormon lives through their dogma.

If you want to control the behavior of your family or your church members, that's fine (although still worth criticizing). The Mormon church, though, has stifled civil rights laws in Utah and other states, and put their full political and economic weight towards passing a federal anti-gay marriage amendment. That's not benign, and people should not stop criticizing the Mormon church until they stop trying to dictate how people privately live their lives.

IndieInvader · 1 year ago

You're being ridiculous.

IndieInvader · 1 year ago

EVERY church on the planet "dictates" the way its members should live their lives. That's what churches do. They teach us the way we should live our lives, that is the purpose of religion, to improve the way we live. You don't have to listen to what your religion tells you to do, its optional. The church can't force you to do anything. Sure, the church has political power, (it's called democracy) that's what happens when a lot of people that believe the same things live near to each other.
Mormons are against homosexuality because it tarnishes the sanctity of the family, and is an unnatural state of being. BTW if you read the bible there is a commandment in there against homosexuality. I don't remember where exactly but I know its there.

jrrrl · 1 year ago

Yes, I know how religion works. That doesn't make religion free from criticism. Would you be uncritical of a huge politically and economically powerful church of Satanists? Of course not. That's the way non-religious people feel about Mormons and other socially repressive religious groups. Criticism should be welcome by religions if they want to stay relevant. Look at how Martin Luther or John Smith changed their religions and made them more current and less repressive. If Mormonism changed to accept homosexuals and women and racial minorities as equals, it would benefit them and reduce criticism, just like it benefited them to reject polygamy, accept black people, stop oppressing native americans, etc.

And yes, it doesn't really matter, but the bible does say in Leviticus not to sleep with a man like you would with a woman because it is an abomination. It's right after the parts whereit says not to eat shrimp or pork because it is an abomination, and before the part mandating people to celebrate Yom Kippur every year. Mormons can choose to follow specific LDS church teachings or not, but there are many positions that define you if you are a Mormon, and right now one of those is intolerance.

Nicci · 1 year ago

Oh my goodness.
That's not funny..
I'm mormon.
Mormon's don't hate gays.
If you're mormon, and you have feelings for the same sex, then you talk to your bishop and if you say, "Pshh. Screw it. I like the same sex and people can deal with it." then you get ex-communicated.
We don't hate them.
I personally think it's disgusting, but that's just me.
No, the southpark thing IS NOT the best thing to watch if you want to know about mormons.
Joseph Smith did not put rocks in a hat, stick his head in there and call it a vision.
www.mormon.org
That's the actual site that I'd tell anyone to look at.
Everything else is probably lies.
Any questions about mormons?
I'm only 15 and know a whole lot.
So email me questions or something.
ga_bldgs_luvr@yahoo.com

gregorylent · 1 year ago

bet all these commentors are americans, they are soooo pc

club penguin · 6 months ago

At the point at which anyone compares mocking a religion to mocking the loss of human life, I have to seriously wonder about the religion that would put itself over the creations of its god. No, that doesn't make me a hypocrite. It makes me pretty consistent in my beliefs, which involve a creator that's all-forgiving. I hardly think there is a god of any religion who would find it necessary to smite a spammer, but then again, I'm not up on all the religions other than my own. Last time I checked though, there was no "Thou shalt not spam" listed in the Commandments.

reechard · 1 year ago

Seriously though, on the topic of LDS buyouts, I think http://geni.com would be a more suitable target.
I have Mormons in my family and one distant Mormon relative in particular was very helpful in providing me with detailed genealogy info.

Brian · 1 year ago

those scriptures are taken WAY out of context... most of them not even close in their implied descriptions. This article is definitely a rumor. The "Church" would never buy something like this... although a member of the church might have some interest in it. The church is way more concerned with helping others and improving each others' lives than social networking. Check your sources next time, "Inquisitor."

Klevin · 1 year ago

Wow, this video is so far from accurate. Obviously, it has been produced by anti-Mormon folks who, for some reason, feel threatened by the truthfulness of the LDS Church. I am happy to stand up for my Mormon beliefs. But first, you must present the beliefs of the Church. This cartoon is a joke. Good Mormons love all people...black, white, or whatever. We're all equal in Heavenly Father's eyes. Please take this cheesy cartoon down. Someone may actually buy into it. And then YOU will be held accountable for deceiving people.

Thank you.

Mel · 1 year ago

Mormons are commanded to love everyone as much as they love themselves. In my opinion, when the Church takes a stand against homosexuality, it is not intended to hurt anyone at all. It is only intended to save the sanctity of the family and this wonderful world in which we live. If the ways of God are perverted by the inhabitants of this earth (which is unfortunately happening at an ever increasing rate) then all the sooner comes the end. These commandments are here to give us peace and happiness. Homosexuality (I have friends and relatives who are gay) is a very selfish lifestyle. In many gay relationships is not about give and take. It's about take - take - take...satisfying ones lustful desires. There was a study done at one time that indicated that the average homosexual male living in SF had as many as 500 sexual partners in his lifetime. That sure seems like a selfish lifestyle to me. I don't hate gay people at all, I'm just saying or hoping that you will understand the motives behind some political positions (that's my opinion).

Joshua · 1 year ago

All the reasons are way funny - except for #5 and #8, which are ridiculously misreported and a little offensive. And the video was a terrible choice, sorry. Even in a humor post (which this certainly was, I laughed, and I am a Mormon!) including an anti-_____ anything clip is simply rude. Include a clip from mormon.org or something, at least get it from the source.

CR Douglas · 1 year ago

I love the title of the video "What Mormon Theology Is Really All About".... As noted earlier, the video clip is from the anti-Mormon film "The GodMakers" If you want to know what the LDS religion is about, wouldn't it be common sense to ask someone from the religion?? There seems to be a lot of "experts" out there that either have never been members or are disgruntled former members of the church.

One has to smile at the rhetoric... The same anti points seem to recycle every few years...

Ronbothunter · 1 year ago

The secret most un-exposed about Scientology is that is it an “applied physiological philosophy” rather than an “applied religious philosophy”. All Scientology courses, all auditing processes, and all the management and professional courses are based on physiological phenomenas, psychophysiology, emotions, human behavior patterns etc., that are our birth right and used in Scientology as their own discoveries. Even their PTS-SP data is based upon how a “Symptom” re-stimulation is brought out by physiological reactions of the mind affecting the body when under stress. They blame innocent human beings called by them “suppressive persons” for bringing out a symptom that was there to warn you of hidden real illnesses caused by non-suppressive sources such as parasites, chemicals, poisons, toxins, viruses and bacteria. The data on PTS-SP is twisted by them to blame innocent people in order to keep them in line.

The only way to fight them is to expose to the world--how Scientology has used physiological phenomenas as the basis for a false religion. How it has harmed families by claiming that innocent mothers and fathers are SPs -- when they lied about symptom re-stimulations to the world.

No where in Scientology will you find courses or services on any bible, there is no study or belief in heaven, hell, saints, angels, the devil, or even God himself. They do not study religion or even believe in religions. They do not share common values with any other religion. Their goal is to eliminate all other religions.

The E-meter reads your physiological reactions, the Ronbots never calls it that—they call it the “CHARGE” or the “MASS” or “ENGRAMS” OR “MENTAL IMAGE PICTURES” that you have in your brain—all meant to distract you from the truth.

Know this fact --- There is a law of Nature or law of God called “Physiological Reactions” that is the true secret behind Scientology’s Dianectic study technology.

AUDITING ERASES AND LESSONS YOUR PHYSIOLOGICAL REACTIONS!!! Once they are gone – your symptoms can’t be re-stimulated by stress or arguments. This is NOT a good thing, because ALL doctors depend on symptoms to guide them in treating you! This is why they prohibit you from seeing the doctors of your choice!!! Understand now how the scam works? Now when you argue with your mother and don’t get sick – you think she was the cause of all your illnesses.

If you were audited a hundred times over and over again (repetitive auditing) for a word that you were ordered to never clear or understand, and then made to read a page that contained that word—it would never again read on the Emeter or cause a physiological reaction.
Both Psychiatry and Scientology treats the symptoms of the mind and not the real causes of mental illnesses, one with drugs and one with erasing physiological reactions called Engrams or mental image pictures! Which one is worst? Drugs you can stop, but the other is irreversible and also a dangerous and deadly scam.

With the knowledge contained here, psychiatry will defeat $cientology easily.

LRH discovered that when you passed a misunderstood word—you manifested many reactions of various types: Yawning, sleepiness, not there feeling, dizziness, blurry eyes, nervousness and dozens more.

Being the liar that he was, he claimed that physiological reactions which he now calls “Dianetics” was “‘his” invention and not a law of God; he hid the fact that it is our human inheritance since time began.

Granted that his power of obnosis (observation) was the best in the world, his crime against humanity was to make a “religion” based upon the falsehood, that it was his very own invention or creation and not a law of God belonging to all Humanity as their lawful right.

For proof that the Cult has lied to you: -- Google “L. Ron Hubbard and Physiological Reactions” or visit their own Godless websites:
http://www.studytechnology.org/10-barr.htm or http://www.lronhubbardstudytech.asn.au/10-barr.htm http://www.studytech.org/study_tech3.php
http://www.effective-education.org/pg003.html

LRH used God’s Natural laws to make slaves of mankind!

“So long as a physiological phenomenon remains the knowledge of a few and is denied to the many it can be utilized to control the many.” LRH (from Journal of Scientology Issue 4-G from Oct. 1952)

“This universe has long been looking for new ways to make slaves. Well, we've got some new ways to make slaves here.” LRH (from PDC tape lecture #20 “Formative State of Scientology, Definition of Logic”, given on 6 Dec 52)

"All men shall be my slaves! LRH

All women shall submit to my charms! LRH

All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why!" [L. Ron Hubbard, "Affirmations", late 1940s] Affirmations, exhibits 500-4D, E, F & G. See Church of Scientology v Armstrong, transcript volume 11, p.1886.

"Somebody some day will say 'this is illegal'.
By then be sure the orgs say what is legal or not."
L. Ron Hubbard, HCOPL 4 January 1966

"THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM”. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them." - L. Ron Hubbard, "Off the Time Track," lecture of June 1952, excerpted in JOURNAL OF SCIENTOLOGY issue 18-G, reprinted in TECHNICAL VOLUMES OF DIANETICS & SCIENTOLOGY, vol. 1, p. 418

"Scientology...is not a religion." - L. Ron Hubbard, CREATION OF HUMAN ABILITY, 1954, p. 251
L. Ron Hubbard’s religion before he discovered physiological reactions was “Satanism”.
He wanted to invent a new religion masked as being good, but in fact was totally evil so that he could take his place on the "Throne of the Beast," which he firmly believed himself to be the rightful heir. Being an evil Satanist he wanted to destroy all other religions and have Scientology as the only religion left on Earth. He wanted to be the RULER of the NEW WORLD ORDER and sit on the Throne of the Beast.

All living beings have physiological (The functions and activities of life or of living matter such as the organic processes of organs, tissues, or cells) phenomenas (observable reactions known through the senses rather than by thought or intuition), or physical manifestations (made evident by showing or displaying) or physical reactions, that we see or feel as symptoms, and they are external and/or internal or visible signs or warnings given to us, by our creator to help us survive, help us increase our potential, our knowledge and our health.
All life on Earth has these cause and effect reactions called physiological phenomenas. All living beings whether they are plant, insect, retile or animal or human could not live without these reactions. They influence the body’s and the mind’s reactions to any form of stimuli, and have an influence on every cell of the body and mind.
[Noun. Physiological reaction – Is an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus.]
[Examples of physiological reactions: inborn reflex, innate reflex, instinctive reflex, reflex response, unconditioned reflex, accommodation reflex, Babinski reflex, belching, headache, migraines, swelling, sweating, erections, blinking, blushing, burping, defecation reflex, disgorgement, involuntary eye blinking, farting, skin flush, gag reflex, goose bump, goose pimple, gooseflesh, involuntary gulping, involuntary hiccup, knee-jerk reflex, light reflex, puking, papillary reflex, rectal reflex, regurgitation, shaking, shiver, shock, sneezing, startle, stretch reflex, suckling reflex, trembling, upset stomach, vomiting, involuntary winking, yawn, yawning -- plus hundreds more.]
Ron studied Physiological reactions more than most scientists and applied it to invent a new Religion.
He did not invent but copied the laws of nature and scammed the whole world into thinking that he alone discovered these reactions and no one else did. What he did do - was noticed the reactions of students and from this scam invented Dianetics “study tech”.
Examples of Physiological reactions of the body and mind when reading:
Falling asleep while reading - yawning, confusion, feeling blank, feeling anxious, not there feeling, tearing eyes, eyes going out of focus, dizziness, reeling, rebelliousness, headaches, skipping words, feeling nauseous, fidgeting, jumpy while reading, can’t stay still, mispronouncing words, feeling as if you are squashed, feeling as if you are over-whelmed, twitching, can’t apply what you are reading, can’t understand what you are reading, etc. are all due to physiological reactions when you read misunderstood words or misunderstood definitions.
The Cult’s method of healing called “Touch Assist” is nothing more than erasing the physiological reactions of PAIN. Physiological reactions are the clues from the law of God called “The Law of Cause and Effect”; for every action there is a reaction. A complete understand of these two laws of God can be used to learn to self-heal.
To understand the sinful secrets of your enemy –is to know exactly where to hurt him.
Scientology’s copyrighted files on based upon the laws of Nature and laws of God; they are in violation of copyrights and patent rights. Therefore, the contents or subjects can be used by anyone and can be talked about without fear of any lawsuit.
Everything you do produces a reaction in your body and mind. Every time you read, eat, sleep, rest, run, etc. produces a reaction.
To tell your mother that you invented a new religion, because you discovered why you farted, is a good example of the scam that Ron pulled on you. He got away with it because the world did not see these reactions as they applied to reading. Or if some scientist saw and knew it—he did not protest it and allowed a Cult to claim it as their own new discovery.
If you want to destroy the cult, study your own reactions each time you do something—learn to read yourself and use your own power of obnosis to discover the real world within and around you.

Yours truly

RonbotHunter
All Rights Reserved.

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phlyman · 1 year ago

you're a dork. Get a life.

Bubba · 10 months ago

I like how you think that what you see in a video on the internet is factual....haha. Douche bag. Mormons are removed from the church if they have more than one wife. FLDS (fundamentalists) who broke off from the church a century ago are the polygamists.

IlegalPlayer · 6 months ago

LDS Mormons Believe The seed of Cain and Ham are the Africans who where Cursed Black in the LDS Mormon Pearl of great Price Scriptures (This is not in the HOLY BIBLE)

". . . there was a blackness came upon all the children of Canaan, that they were despised among all people . . . (Pearl of Great Price Moses 7:8)."

"And . . . they were a mixture of all the seed of Adam save it was the seed of Cain, for the seed of Cain were black, and had not place among them (Pearl of Great Price Moses 7:22)."


This teaches White Mormons that Black skin is a CURSE FROM the Mormon GOD (THIS IS NOT IN THE HOLY BIBLE)

"...cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing...the Lord God did cause a skin of BLACKNESS to come upon them (Book of Mormon 2 Nephi 5:21)"

"And the skins..were DARK,according to the MARK which was set upon their fathers..which WAS A CURSE upon them...(Book of Mormon,Alma 3:6)"

"and the CURSING which hath come upon their skins...(Book of Mormon, Jacob 3:5)"

Eric · 6 months ago

Ok - so I know this is only a blog, and not technically responsible for accuracy in reporting, but come on! (before anybody asks: yes, I am a member of the LDS church, and yes, I know this was an attempt at humor) The thing that irks me about this is the irresponsibility of it - while most members of the church know that this is totally off-base, and should either laugh or ignore it, sadly, there are people out there who believe that if they see it on the internet, it must be true. An article like this is laughed at by those who know better (not bad), causes curiosity in those who aren't sure (not bad), and feeds discriminatory fear and hate in those who don't have a clue. Unfortunately (my opinion) the vast majority of people fall into the third category.