I think it's pretty funny you think context would save any one of those quotes,
I don't think they need saving. Notice that I didn't say they needed the context, only that they would be better within such context. There is nothing about those quotes by themselves to be embarrassed about.
Well, a baby isn't embarrassed when he craps his diapers either, so I guess I see why these quotes don't shame you.
God belief is for people who don't want to live life on the universe's terms.
Also I think women are more spiritual. Just go to any Christian church or Mormon. You will see more females than males majority of places. It is a shame too. Sometimes I think HF should take our PH away and give it to women to teach a lesson. Since many males baptized don't come or embrace their gift.
A MADB-thread on why women don't have the priesthood. That will quickly fill up with ten different shades of brown.
Here's one from an older thread on the subject (emphasis mine):
Cold Steel, March 28, 2009 wrote:Women will never receive the priesthood but will, as stated, partake of it through her husband.
Priesthood is the power by which worlds are created and brought into motion. It is the power to organize the elements. As the man is to God, so should the wife be unto a man. This is a normal chain of command structure and is specifically taught in sacred places.
Once resurrected, both man and woman will have power and glory beyond our comprehension. Still, it falls to the man to organize the elements. It’s not like the vote, where everyone gets it.
The sad part is, I think Cold Steel is just being more up front about what the temple liturgy actually teaches than the average cog-diss egalitarian-minded Mormon.
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"It seems to me that these women were the head (κεφάλαιον) of the church which was at Philippi." ~ John Chrysostom, Homilies on Philippians 13
I remain totally convinced that the ban was from God and that it was a capitulation by the Gentile church leaders to seek to remove it. In other words, I believe President Kimball was deceived, and he led the Lord's church into error. I know people call this racist, but it is not mean spirited. It is in harmony with the doctrines of Mormon Eternalism.
mfbukowski, speaking of preparing for the millenium:
If you want to know the truth, call me a nut, but I am actually learning how to make stone tools, primitive iron-working techniques, making traps for animals with string I have made and other primitive survival skills, and teaching my kids.
Maybe I am a wacko, maybe not
Not wacky at all. No.
I detest my loose style and my libertine sentiments. I thank God, who has removed from my eyes the veil... Adrian Beverland
Tell Mfbukowski that a far more useful skill to have post-apocalypse would be how to pull teeth without pliers or anesthetics. And no, that's not a joke.
Sadly, if we ever destroy modern society, it will not be to the 17th or 18th Century level of technology that we fall back to, since the artisans and craftsmen of those centuries inherited knowledge and wisdom about wood and tools that we have all but lost today, and it would take us centuries or even millenia to get back to that level. No, it will be to the stone age that we fall. Or rather, the "stone plus whatever tools or materials can be scrounged" Age. Actually, our neolithic forebears knew things about knapping flint, processing and shaping bone, skins, and other animal parts that almost nobody knows anymore. So maybe Mfbukowski is on to something.
Mormonism ceased being a compelling topic for me when I finally came to terms with its transformation from a personality cult into a combination of a real estate company, a SuperPac, and Westboro Baptist Church. - Kishkumen
