rcrocket wrote:Are you kidding? Many do. Gold plates, angels, polygamy, most of it.
I don't consider the Joseph Smith story any more outrageous than the story that a convicted criminal, executed for a capital crime, rose from the dead and became a God. Joseph Smith wasn't a convicted criminal. He didn't rise form the dead. He didn't become God.
Most therapists I hire and know see religion as a way to help people. I rarely hear of therapists telling people that religion is the source of their ills. It happens.
it's not the religion that much as people in the religion that cause a lot of the ills.
rcrocket wrote:Are you kidding? Many do. Gold plates, angels, polygamy, most of it.
I don't consider the Joseph Smith story any more outrageous than the story that a convicted criminal, executed for a capital crime, rose from the dead and became a God. Joseph Smith wasn't a convicted criminal. He didn't rise form the dead. He didn't become God.
Most therapists I hire and know see religion as a way to help people. I rarely hear of therapists telling people that religion is the source of their ills. It happens.
who is that? what convicted criminal was executed for capital crime and rose from the dead and became God.
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dblagent007 wrote: I suspect that DCP will have a legion of sympathetic people willing to help him out financially or through free or discounted legal work. How do you plan on paying your legal bills?
You underestimate the number of enemies the Mormon church has made. I suspect -- rather, I already know that there is a legion of sympathetic people willing to help out financially through free legal work.
dblagent007 wrote: I suspect that DCP will have a legion of sympathetic people willing to help him out financially or through free or discounted legal work. How do you plan on paying your legal bills?
You underestimate the number of enemies the Mormon church has made. I suspect -- rather, I already know that there is a legion of sympathetic people willing to help out financially through free legal work.
You aren't suing the Mormon church. And surely there can't be that many money-grubbing lawyers in Utah.
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.