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But, it is amazing how people will follow a nut to anywhere: http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=1837408 ... -influence

Those who directly benefit from the hierarchy of power I can understand, but lay members? Why would the subjugate themselves to the new level of crazy? Oh and please donate $5k per family.

It must be true, or they wouldn't ask us to do do all those difficult things. Stands to reason, doesn't it? We could tell that it was of Satan if it made us more comfortable and superficially happy.

This is a well-known mechanism for promoting group cohesion: make members sacrifice things they hold dear, and when they have done that their investment in the truth of the group's beliefs and hence their reluctance to abandon them is increased.

Nothing says, "impurity", like toys and bicycles. Kids should be put to work. They need to learn to pull their own weight.

Hades wrote:Nothing says, "impurity", like toys and bicycles. Kids should be put to work. They need to learn to pull their own weight.

Hades is quite correct. Every "right thinking" American knows that toys only interfere with children's ability to complete their farm or factory work (a good, honest twelve hours a day).

This is especially true for female children. Doll's, etc. only distract a young girl from her duties as a wife.

They need to learn to pull their own weight.

What better way to do this than to pull someone else of similar weight along in a Radio Flyer?