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by Rivendale
Mon Aug 22, 2022 9:44 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Mormon leaders do not have any powers of discernment
Replies: 10
Views: 560

Re: Mormon leaders do not have any powers of discernment

I have a child hood friend that is in the church just for his wife. He served on many High Councils for over 25 years. Problem? Each year when March madness starts with college basketball he would go with his lawyer friend to Vegas for the weekend. And they didn't drink postum. Next Sunday and the s...
by Rivendale
Mon Aug 22, 2022 8:45 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Confidential confession works for the truly penitent child sex abusers
Replies: 18
Views: 724

Re: Confidential confession works for the truly penitent child sex abusers

The ridiculous belief system that Mormonism has requires Bishops to mistakenly believe they have supernatural powers to be able to tell the truth about abuse claims, to know when a victim is lying, and to know when a child molester has changed his ways and will molest no more. These aren't just you...
by Rivendale
Sun Aug 21, 2022 8:43 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Confidential confession works for the truly penitent child sex abusers
Replies: 18
Views: 724

Re: Confidential confession works for the truly penitent child sex abusers

Here here, Marcus. I’m so disgusted by this one that I can’t really separate the people from the organization any more. Something got rewired in me, and now I hold the individuals accountable for this - if they stay in that cult that means they’re ok with this. Funny how so many of these people bel...
by Rivendale
Sat Aug 20, 2022 3:29 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: God is evil, or likes it, or enjoys it whatever
Replies: 143
Views: 5420

Re: God is evil, or likes it, or enjoys it whatever

If you really want to believe something any old argument will do. Or even mere assertion will also do the trick, it seems. Or this. Kerry Muhlestein: “I start out with an assumption that the Book of Abraham and the Book of Mormon, and anything else that we get from the restored gospel, is true... T...
by Rivendale
Fri Aug 19, 2022 9:20 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: God is evil, or likes it, or enjoys it whatever
Replies: 143
Views: 5420

Re: God is evil, or likes it, or enjoys it whatever

If intelligences are co-eternal I often wondered how one intelligence got more intelligent than another. After all, they are both eternal. Sounds like a rigged game. Some spent their eternity learning while others spent it goofing off? That is almost worse. If someone spends eternity goofing off an...
by Rivendale
Fri Aug 19, 2022 5:20 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: God is evil, or likes it, or enjoys it whatever
Replies: 143
Views: 5420

Re: God is evil, or likes it, or enjoys it whatever

If intelligences are co-eternal I often wondered how one intelligence got more intelligent than another. After all, they are both eternal. Sounds like a rigged game. All intelligences are equal but some are more equal than others. https://sparrowchat.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/pig-angel.gif?b7b...
by Rivendale
Fri Aug 19, 2022 5:01 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: God is evil, or likes it, or enjoys it whatever
Replies: 143
Views: 5420

Re: God is evil, or likes it, or enjoys it whatever

Hope you don't mind, MG. I'm going to re-respond to this. I was curious if you think God created the universe, realizing that passage says he created all things. Is the universe all things? Or what is beyond the universe? I ask because some Mormons I've spoken to have suggested God exists inside th...
by Rivendale
Thu Aug 18, 2022 9:10 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: God is evil, or likes it, or enjoys it whatever
Replies: 143
Views: 5420

Re: God is evil, or likes it, or enjoys it whatever

Hi Stem, I don't know if you've ever seen any of the vids from "Mr. Deity" (I believe he's actually an ex-Mormon), but his vid on the problem of evil is fantastic. YouTube Link That was fantastic. And thanks...never heard of him. Deity tried to get them syndicated and they said it just wouldn't wor...
by Rivendale
Mon Aug 15, 2022 9:19 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Creepy Jesus
Replies: 24
Views: 1007

Re: Creepy Jesus

Are robes the most efficient clothing for god maneuverability or are they mainly for asthetics? In Book of Mormonlands, the armor was made out of obsidian. Most likely Hugh Nibley made this discovery. For Mormon artists, it is a quandary over whether to dress God in the traditional priesthood attir...
by Rivendale
Mon Aug 15, 2022 3:17 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: All atheists should be nihilists
Replies: 34
Views: 1817

Re: All atheists should be nihilists

Craig concludes: Now I want to make it clear that I have not yet shown biblical Christianity to be true. But what I have done is clearly spell out the alternatives. If God does not exist, then life is futile. If the God of the Bible does exist, then life is meaningful. Only the second of these two ...