Jordan Stowers

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[Jordan Stowers @JordanStowers2]

@sh16r1 People hear what they want to hear very often. If someone tells them they have the chance to be perfect and live in perfect bliss forever as a result after they die, they’re gonna listen. What do you have to lose? #REL2121S18

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@kprice2121 I think that’s what they were trying to do! I think they may have been making themselves try to sound “better” than other Christianity #REL2121S18

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I bet at least a little bit of Pentecostalism’ success comes from just calling themselves charismatic Christians; it’s such a cute name I completely understand why you would want to call yourself that and be a part of such an endearing sounding group #REL2121S18

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Interesting (not interesting) how we’ve talked about several religions that try to have female leadership and then someone has to go along and fuck it up and then we rarely hear about these female leaders in the future #REL2121S18

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@audreyytatum @henryfsurel I agree, it is very interesting! I wonder if there were any other aspects to that, like if franklin was more pressured to go along with society even if he didn’t totally agree with it #REL2121S18

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People in the US wanted a religious community in the 50s, but I wonder why they went to the church community as opposed to friends and family the way people do now when looking for peace and quiet in their life #REL2121S18

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I honestly wonder if MLK Jr figured he was going to die the day after his “Mountaintop” speech in Memphis. It’s almost eerie.

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I wonder why since the very beginning people have assumed that, if aliens exist, they’re thousands of years ahead of us. Is there any reason for that? #REL2121S18

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Interesting how all these white christians were so against integration calling it the “March of the antichrist”; makes me wonder what roundabout reasoning they were using? My guess is none tbh. #REL2121S18

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I think Emerson is the first person we learned about that isn’t using his ideas and religion to raise himself above another group of people and kill them #REL2121S18

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Noyes had the right idea with erasing marriage and promoting polyamory right up until he called it “communism in love” where he should’ve realized it’s only gonna be good for everyone on paper and you can’t put urself at the top of a relationship #REL2121S18

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@aas16k I wonder why the US feels the need to do that tho? You’re right, but I feel like it would be cool if they stopped trying to spread what doesn’t work as well as we thought it would just because it’s ours #REL2121S18

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@VaccianaBrianna @ml14h @TheRealDanWells I never thought of it that way before, but I think you’re right. People don’t seem to like separation of church and state as much as they say I guess #REL2121S18

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@jakeknorrrr I think most people like having the two different entities of power to look up to for different reasons, so if you get mad at one you can look to the other for what you want to hear. Almost like parents? #REL2121S18

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@katherine_dykes That’s true. I wonder why Americans clung/cling to Christianity as opposed to any other religion that’s been around for so long? #REL2121S18

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America frankly remains the liberator of the oppressed as long as the oppressed are straight white men with guns 🤷🏾‍♂️ it’s my constitutional right to own 55 assault rifles am I right fellas #REL2121S18

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Was it the founding fathers and Americans believing they were “god’s chosen people” that started Mormons’ belief that Jesus came to the US? Is that related? #REL2121S18

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@LoganLoveLTL16b @TheRealDanWells That’s true! We were talking about that in class, there’s so much prejudice ingrained into society because of some Muslim people doing to Americans what Americans have done to pretty much everyone else #REL2121S18

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