The LDS Church in Spokane, Washington has called Bruce Jesson to be a Mormon Bishop, according to the Seattle Times. Jesson developed the waterboarding and sleep-deprivation interrogation techniques for the CIA. There were no dissenting votes from the congregation when Jesson's name was put before the members for a sustaining vote. The last line in the article is revealing. Bishop Jesson apparently does not believe that as a spiritual leader the basic rules of common civility apply to him.
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2019468677_bishop19.html
Torture Architect Called as Bishop
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Torture Architect Called as Bishop
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God being God qua jerky bastard.
Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded.-charity 3/7/07
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I peeked in the back [of the Bible] Frank, the Devil did it.
I avoid church religiously.
This isn't one of my sermons, I expect you to listen.
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"As a bishop — an unpaid, part-time position that usually lasts several years — Jessen will take confessions and help people with their personal problems,"
Personal problems such as masturbation and gayness.
It is my province to teach to the Church what the doctrine is. It is your province to echo what I say or to remain silent.
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There were no dissenting votes from the congregation when Jesson's name was put before the members for a sustaining vote.
That's shocking
He got 100% of the vote. Has that ever happened before?"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die."
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Re: Torture Architect Called as Bishop
DarkHelmet wrote:There were no dissenting votes from the congregation when Jesson's name was put before the members for a sustaining vote.
That's shocking
It is highly unusual, but I am told there was a waterboard leaning against the sacrament table to encourage people to vote correctly.
"Any over-ritualized religion since the dawn of time can make its priests say yes, we know, it is rotten, and hard luck, but just do as we say, keep at the ritual, stick it out, give us your money and you'll end up with the angels in heaven for evermore."
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Re: Torture Architect Called as Bishop
Equality wrote:The LDS Church in Spokane, Washington has called Bruce Jesson to be a Mormon Bishop, according to the Seattle Times. Jesson developed the waterboarding and sleep-deprivation interrogation techniques for the CIA. There were no dissenting votes from the congregation when Jesson's name was put before the members for a sustaining vote. The last line in the article is revealing. Bishop Jesson apparently does not believe that as a spiritual leader the basic rules of common civility apply to him.
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2019468677_bishop19.html
I object.
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Speechless.
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As a bishop ... Jessen will take confessions ...
Yeah, I'm sure there will be a lot of those.
Zadok:
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Maksutov:
That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis.
Maksutov:
That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
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Yes. It's good that he came up with these techniques because we all know that people always tell the truth when they are tortured. 
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just me wrote:Yes. It's good that he came up with these techniques because we all know that people always tell the truth when they are tortured.
Splash ... mmmmmph .... splash .... mmmmmmmph!
(gurgle) I-know-the-church-is-true!
I-know-with-every-fibre-of-my-being-that (aaaaah, aaaaaaaaah, thank you for taking the cellophane off), Joseph-Smith-is-a-prophet-of-God ....
(pause)
No!!!! Please, not again ....!
I-have-a-testimony-of-the-Book-of-Mormon!
(and so on ....)
Zadok:
I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis.
Maksutov:
That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis.
Maksutov:
That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.