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The church is a business. That's why it picks people with business skills to run it. It was a temporal organization directed towards furthering the prosperity of a favored few from its inception. Not so different from so many other religions, cults, enterprises of all kinds. Of course the prospectu...

How many lawyers, doctors and MBA’s are there on the board again?

I submitted my name to be part of this.

I remember finally getting home on a Sunday after a 16 hour shift of Church and remarking that if I wore my suit any longer it would rot.

Looks like the missionaries are the ones who will be the front line on the Nov 2015 exclusion revelation now that it is in Preach my Gospel.

http://www.kuer.org/post/lds-church-quietly-doubles-down-controversial-gay-policy#stream/0

peacemaker wrote:There are only two powers in the universe: the priesthood and the power of Satan.

And both were created by God.

Can confirm, my wife got the handshake stare down from Holland during her mission overseas. It’s one of the first things we talked about when we started datinlying. Last year she and her sisters compared patriarchal blessings, and it seems they were all nearly identical. She commented that it was pr...

Pot, meet Kettle The Church is also devoted to the science of social engineering, as they understand it. Specifically, the Church encourages “social Darwinism.” From the Darwinian principle of “natural selection,” they deduced that the supreme law of God (and, thus, in the Church’s view, of “itself”...

Given that the changes described here are obviously highly unfavourable to membership retention - particularly the retention of young members - the question arises as to why on earth the church leadership chose to make these changes. I think it's mostly money. Correlation is aimed at reducing the a...

....there's been a slow creep toward making everything into one big sacrament meeting... I've joked to my kids that the Celestial Kingdom is just one, eternally long Sacrament meeting - and that even though you hated them here on earth, you will be changed and love it in the next life. The looks th...