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Zion isn't going to build itself.

[Gershom @astrangerthere]

@polysophical I wasn't aware of George Q. Cannon and amulets.

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Benjamin Park is on Youtube speed running solid academic discussions of every interesting topic in Mormonism

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On Sunday we had a Ward Social, and it was everything you could possible hope for. Fun, effortless conversation with your neighbors, hoards of children playing, etc. If felt incredible. And it didn't make the Church any truer, but it made me fall more in love with it.

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I've said it before, but the fact that in the average LDS congregation there are between 5 and 10 people that have a strong opinion on King Josiah and the deuteronomistic reform is very charming to me.

[D.J. Butler -- Sci-Fi / Fantasy Author and Editor @DavidJohnButler]

I got this comment in response to a post about He-Man and the Satanic Panic.

It's good to be reminded that there are idiots on this platform.

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@JWHagen04 @ThoughtfulSaint There are non-Tulip Calvinists?

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Exit from the church. Just interesting that people can look at the same facts and come to such different conclusions.

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Its very interesting how Early Mormonism and the Magic World View is so Polarizing. Quinn bears his testimony in the introduction and had a literal belief in the book of Mormon and LDS truth claims till the end of his life. But many people cite the book as a reason for their

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Well Pete Hegseth has made this site completely unusable for at least another week.

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@jkimballcook IDK, He makes very sophisticated arguments about the law in conversation w/ the rabbinical understanding at the time for him not to have an insiders view on it.

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@RadderdaySaint I was wondering the exact same thing

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The ACX book review contest is one of my favorite times of year. Logging onto a big google doc and reading the book reviews of wildly varying quality of like 100 random strangers is exhilarating

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Well I have to admit I was NOT PREPARED for the very disturbing events in the middle of this book. I'm not sure why no one warned me.

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Who let this be the cover art for the best piece of Mormon Literature ever produced???
This makes it seems like cheap romance, not "what if John Steinbeck was born in Panguitch"

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One thing I wish more LDS people new about fundamentalism is that most fundamentalists are NOT FLDS, FLDS are one sect among many, and by and large, other fundamentalists are as disgusted by Warren Jeffs as everyone else.

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@jkimballcook Obviously tone matters here, but how are we supposed to understand the law except by intense discussion/debate?

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https://t.co/HSe7vY1Qc7

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Check out the first essay in a new series: Classics in Mormon Studies.

I wrote about John Buerger's 1982 Dialogue article titled The Adam-God Doctrine and why it was so important.

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@SteveMc74806767 @Apologetics941 I've never heard of that, but I wish we did it

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Who let this be the cover art for the best piece of Mormon Literature ever produced???
This makes it seems like cheap romance, not "what if John Steinbeck was born in Panguitch"

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@on_the_citywall @ColtKidMcGee I wen't to a gentile school and am still happy that BYU exists, and is subsidized by my tithing. I think this is the consensus position among members who didn't go to BYU.