Alex Mahnk

[Alex Mahnk @AlexMahnk]

@RaieauX @JS9511606021086 Look at what I'm responding to. You think I just showed up and started being an asshole? 🤣 No, someone else was taking shots at people who lost their faith, and using in group/outgroup language (splitting) that is so common in cults.

And yes, Mormonism is a cult.

[Alex Mahnk @AlexMahnk]

@ZachCrandall @KimballCall I'm only interested in what your founding prophet said, and why the LDS Church changed it.

If Joseph Smith truly was tasked with a restoration of the true church, then why move further away from a restoration?

[Alex Mahnk @AlexMahnk]

@JS9511606021086 Yes, they are smiling to evoke an emotional response in you, to protect themselves. And if you've done it your whole life in a high demand religious environment, it's common to confuse the mask persona with your self.

https://t.co/34CECQbnKJ

See also: Shiny Happy People

[Alex Mahnk @AlexMahnk]

@BIGKLDS And it doesn't align with history, geography, anthropology, etc etc, philosophical incoherent etc

[Alex Mahnk @AlexMahnk]

@JS9511606021086 It's an almost identical lift. Because this is what JS did. He cribbed a bunch of his "inspired" texts from other documents and remixed and added to it. 🤣

[Alex Mahnk @AlexMahnk]

@GuyInco15542744 That quote says people generally leave over “very trifling affairs.” But BY also said people left over much bigger issues, including plural marriage, Joseph Smith’s teachings on salvation for those outside the Church, and much more. So many reasons to doubt JS and BY actually.

[Alex Mahnk @AlexMahnk]

@JS9511606021086 That empathy is really telling about your own faith, my guy.

I grieve whenever someone loses their faith in God because I know what they've lost. But mocking someone with ingroup/outgroup theatrics just because they recognized some obvious problems? Not the move.

[Alex Mahnk @AlexMahnk]

@GuyInco15542744 Why don't you live your religion through polygamy like Brigham Young?

[Alex Mahnk @AlexMahnk]

@GuyInco15542744 Thou shalt not steal.
JS: destroyed the Nauvoo Expositor press and papers, which were not his property.

Thou shalt not covet.
JS: married his neighbors' wives

It goes on and on.

[Alex Mahnk @AlexMahnk]

@GuyInco15542744 Thou shalt not steal.
JS: committed the Kirkland Safety Society fraud on his own flock.

Thou shalt not bear false witness.
JS: publicly denounced polygamy, secretly practiced it.

Thou shalt honor thy father and mother.
JS: disgraced the mother of his own children, Emma.

[Alex Mahnk @AlexMahnk]

@GuyInco15542744 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
JS: married the wives of other men simultaneously, violated his own marriage covenant with Emma.

Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
JS: taught that humans can become like god, making man co-equal with god.

[Alex Mahnk @AlexMahnk]

@GuyInco15542744 Neither was Joseph Smith. He was a charlatan who broke several of the 10 Commandments and told others those violations were a restoration. They weren't. They were just lies. Even the LDS church doesn't follow some of his "restoration"

[Alex Mahnk @AlexMahnk]

@GuyInco15542744 Of course I do. I just don't think the Holy Ghost is in the habit of tell me to add to scripture. And I think doing that is a sin.

Why do they directly contradict? Remember, JS said a restoration was necessary. So either, the old KJV is true or his new translation is true.

[Alex Mahnk @AlexMahnk]

@Latterdaytruth So weird they've been kept hidden for so long, right?

Kind of like the Epstein Files.

[Alex Mahnk @AlexMahnk]

Don't believe Andrew Tate is straight.

[Andrew Tate @Cobratate]

Don’t believe in Ayahuasca.

Don’t believe in Peru.

RIP Connor Murphy.

[Alex Mahnk @AlexMahnk]

@GuyInco15542744 Of course they do. 🤣 why else would Joseph Smith change the KJV? Because he thought it was wrong.

He thought it was wrong based on *vibes*

[Alex Mahnk @AlexMahnk]

@GuyInco15542744 They contradict each other.