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by drumdude
Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:57 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: The Insane Stupidly of Christianity
Replies: 13
Views: 386

Re: The Insane Stupidly of Christianity

When you live in a smelly room for long enough, you eventually become accustomed to the aroma to the point where it no longer smells at all. They call it “nose blindness.” If you grew up in such a room, you may even develop a nostalgia and fondness for the smell when it’s absent. I view Christianity...
by drumdude
Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:54 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Pissing on "Frenchy"'s Grave?; Or, a Case Study in Mopologetic Selfishness
Replies: 58
Views: 4951

Re: Pissing on "Frenchy"'s Grave?; Or, a Case Study in Mopologetic Selfishness

The church released this guidance in 2012: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/news/church-asks-members-to-understand-policies?lang=eng The clear message is “don’t get us into hot water by baptizing Holocaust victims or celebrities.” The request to work on your own line only, is basically ju...
by drumdude
Mon Apr 22, 2024 1:59 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Pissing on "Frenchy"'s Grave?; Or, a Case Study in Mopologetic Selfishness
Replies: 58
Views: 4951

Re: Pissing on "Frenchy"'s Grave?; Or, a Case Study in Mopologetic Selfishness

The church released this guidance in 2012: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/news/church-asks-members-to-understand-policies?lang=eng The clear message is “don’t get us into hot water by baptizing Holocaust victims or celebrities.” The request to work on your own line only, is basically jus...
by drumdude
Mon Apr 22, 2024 1:51 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: My Encounter with Kerry Muhlestein online
Replies: 14
Views: 434

Re: My Encounter with Kerry Muhlestein online

Not surprising that he doesn’t want to discuss criticism in public.

And yeah the “no idea how they disappeared” is just a cop-out. Anyone who has used YouTube for more than a couple days knows how the system works.
by drumdude
Sun Apr 21, 2024 10:55 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Pissing on "Frenchy"'s Grave?; Or, a Case Study in Mopologetic Selfishness
Replies: 58
Views: 4951

Re: Pissing on "Frenchy"'s Grave?; Or, a Case Study in Mopologetic Selfishness

Having never known nor even met any other member of Frenchy Morrell’s family, and having met Frenchy himself only once, briefly and years ago, and being neither his undivorced spouse nor his adult child nor his father or mother or brother or sister, I had no right under the rules of the Church to s...
by drumdude
Sun Apr 21, 2024 10:49 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Temple sealings as a solution in search of a problem
Replies: 7
Views: 178

Re: Temple sealings as a solution in search of a problem

I’m a bit surprised that Peterson has missed an entirely obvious and logical reason for the phrase, ‘until death do us part’. That being, typically when a married person passes away, their spouse is rarely passing away at the same moment. Hence, ‘till death do us part’. One member of the union will...
by drumdude
Sun Apr 21, 2024 6:37 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Temple sealings as a solution in search of a problem
Replies: 7
Views: 178

Re: Temple sealings as a solution in search of a problem

A gem from the Hitchen's file adds more to the list of self generated sanctions. Hitchens claimed that believing in God was equivalent to life in an eternal totalitarian state: ‘It is the desire that there be an unalterable, unchallengeable, tyrannical authority who can convict you of thought crime...
by drumdude
Sun Apr 21, 2024 3:28 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Temple sealings as a solution in search of a problem
Replies: 7
Views: 178

Temple sealings as a solution in search of a problem

One of the charges against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that invariably surprises and puzzles me runs more or less along the following lines: “The Mormon Church separates people at death. It teaches that families won’t be together in the afterlife, and it divorces husbands and wi...
by drumdude
Sat Apr 20, 2024 9:21 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: The Rosebud MEGATHREAD
Replies: 834
Views: 34648

Re: The Rosebud UnMegaThread

She accused Dehlin of covering up child abuse. Then apologized for posting that. She is clearly having some sort of mental health episode. Your incessant posting about Rosebud's mental health is a mini mental health episode in and of itself. You're obsessed with her obsession. You're like Rosebud's...
by drumdude
Sat Apr 20, 2024 7:35 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: The Rosebud MEGATHREAD
Replies: 834
Views: 34648

Re: The Rosebud MEGATHREAD

It's been very amusing watching Rosebud be completely oblivious to the fact that Marcus is not a man.