What is IYO is the most crazy LDS teaching

[hauslern]

Heavenly father and spouse (s) have been creating spirit children who will need a earthly body. India will soon pass China in population. So more than several billion will have to wait until the millennium to have the missionary discussions. Will there be a point when the numbers waiting in the spirit world reach zero? Will Heavenly Father and Spouse(s) stop having spirit chidden? Think of the millions through no fault of their own have died in a tsunami , disease earthquakes, crime. These are just my thoughts. You all must have considered other absurd teachings

[drumdude]

1000 percent correct.


So many associated absurdities. The desperate need to baptize people now when it can easily be done there. The endless celestial sex. Being stuck with your husband and his multiple wives forever. Obsession with never ending families ties.


In the end, it’s all just a reflection of human insecurities about death and interpersonal relationships. If you think the idea of not living forever is terrifying, try imagining never being able to stop living.

[hauslern]

Dan Petersen has made it his mission to argue that NDEs are real. To do this he has to accept the argument that man has a soul. In this he agrees with some Evangelical scholars who argue for the existence of the soul while other evangelical scholars argue against dualism (Nancy Murphy ed Whatever Happened to The Soul? No Soul no preexistence. Dan Petersen cites an evangelical philosopher Brandon Rickabaugh who in a conservative Philosophy journal questions "What does it Mean to Be a Bodily Soul"
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"Most philosophers think that interaction between a material and nonmaterial reality is impossible or unintelligible" p.317
"Contemporary neuroscience supports the total dependence of mental activity on neural activity"

[2bizE]

The whole Garden of Eden in Missouri is top notch crazy.

[Moksha]

There are so many to choose from. The earth being 7000 years old hasn't been mentioned, but that has to compete with God issuing skin color curses. Becoming a prophet via corporate decision-making is a bit crazy sounding.

[Fence Sitter]

All religion has teachings that are strange. Religion is predicated on the unprovable and highly unsubstantiated belief that some super being(s) cares about humanity and/or earth in some way. Mormonism just piles the crazy on the crazy.
For me, the strangest peculiarly Mormon belief is the entire temple ceremony. What a bizarre idea that a super being would require people to dress like that, engage in secret activities and passwords, in order to return to His presence. It reminds me of that great scene from the movie The Christmas Story when the Ralphie locks himself in the only room in his house where he can get privacy, the privy, and excitedly decodes his first super-secret message personal from little Orphan Annie, only to read "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine". "It's only a crummy commercial."

[sock puppet]

For me, the two most absurd teachings are that (a) Nephi was commanded by god to slay Laban rather than god simply assisting Lehi-Nephi get the plates and get safely away from Laban permanently, and (b) caffeine--ok in cold drinks, but not hot drinks, but hot drinks without caffeine are okay. Makes as much sense as doing the hoky-poky, putting your left foot in and shaking it all about. These are both sheer lunacy.

[Rivendale]

The memory of our pre-existence has been wiped. And we supposedly agreed to it. I wonder what previous me was thinking the moment before the deprogramming begun? Oh crap? Here we go? Good bye previous me? I hope I win?

[drumdude]

The memory of our pre-existence has been wiped. And we supposedly agreed to it. I wonder what previous me was thinking the moment before the deprogramming begun? Oh crap? Here we go? Good bye previous me? I hope I win?

Imagine how much more smug Mormon apologists must have been. Intolerably so.

[Rivendale]

The memory of our pre-existence has been wiped. And we supposedly agreed to it. I wonder what previous me was thinking the moment before the deprogramming begun? Oh crap? Here we go? Good bye previous me? I hope I win?

Imagine how much more smug Mormon apologists must have been. Intolerably so.

This is what they were thinking right before the wipe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woQooW-VCBE