We're So Sorry, Mr. Dehlin

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Wings.
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Yeah, but not Wings. Its the Ram album that Paul and Linda McCartney did in 1971. Pre-Wings (right before Wild Life).

Sorry, not the Fab Four.
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Droopy and Paul sitting in the tub, K-I-S-S-I-N-G! First comes touch, then comes luv, then comes bubbles all over the tub!

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I can't believe my tax dollars subsidize this person's internet access.
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Bond James Bond wrote:I can't believe my tax dollars subsidize this person's internet access.


Poor Droopy. He never was able to earn a living. RIP.

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My experience does not square with the portrait of John Dehlin as some sort of testimony killer. My testimony died after 10 years in the youth programs, two years on a mission, and four years of studying with apologists at BYU. I didn't learn about John Dehlin until the damage was done (by faithful people, mostly, including well-meaning youth instructors and distant LDS "authorities" like Harold Hillam and Richard Bushman -- not to mention myself, who used to be as fanatical a believer as anyone). Dehlin merely gave me a place to point my faithful family when they wanted to know what the heck happened to me. He helped me explain myself to them, offering a perspective on church history that is accurate without being gratuitously unsympathetic (or incomprehensible: my family doesn't know or care much about ancient Egypt or pre-Columbian America or the kind of "post-modern" gibberish that the old FARMS shilled).

I am glad that my family didn't cast me out after my faith crisis. (They haven't followed me out, either, in spite of Mr. Dehlin, and unlike some people, I am not angry about this: I recognize the good the church does, along with the bad, and I am open to people remaining happily in the church.) I am grateful to John Dehlin for helping me reach out to my family and maintain a perfectly beautiful relationship that the LDS church almost wrecked.
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Shulem wrote:Droopy and Paul sitting in the tub, K-I-S-S-I-N-G! First comes touch, then comes luv, then comes bubbles all over the tub!

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Wait a minute...that's...not...a duck...
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Bravo, Droopy! That's almost as good as something from Emmeline Grangerford.
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Droopy is the Weird Al of Mormonism. Only less talent. And just weird. And unemployed. And stupid.
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LDSToronto wrote:Droopy is the Weird Al of Mormonism. Only less talent. And just weird. And unemployed. And stupid.


He's the kind of person who would find this poster "intellectually serious":

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