Steve January 16, 2012 at 3:35 pm

My wife and I moved to SLC from the Tampa Bay area a little over a year ago (because it’s less weird here), and I still have no idea what the whole Mormon thing is about. It’s a nice place to live, anyway.

You were amazing at the 9pm show on Saturday. Hope you make it out here again sometime.

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Tim January 16, 2012 at 8:45 pm

Marc,

You handled the conversation with Todd perfectly. It took a lot of courage for him to say that in such a public place.

Matt January 17, 2012 at 1:46 am

Here’s what you need to know about the cult of the LDS Church.  Joseph Smith was a handsome and charismatic young 21 year old in 1826 when he was arrested and convicted of fraud.  At the time he claimed to have necromantic powers.  He also used seer stones to find things for people, which didn’t work well enough to keep him out of jail, when he couldn’t find shit.  About 18 months later he supposedly found golden tablets with the history of the native Americans on it.  He couldn’t write so he had a few scribes take down what he read from the tablets,  As it turns out no one else could look at the tablets or they would die.  What he transcribed is what we now have as the book of mormon, or the golden bible, another testament to jesus christ.  He was such an obvious charlatan that wherever they went they his claims were called out for what they were… pure nonsense. 
Long story short he was killed.  Current day Morman’s believe blacks are scarred so we can tell them apart as the cursed descendents of Cain.  Thus it took them until 1978 to agree that blacks are humans too and let them attend their church.  Think about that, Romney was an adult man in a church that was actively racist a whole 15 years after the civil rights movement.  They believe that their president / apostles are actually speaking to god.  They don’t drink coffee or booze (although Smith had a lot of trouble abiding by his own god given rules).  As with most religious people they are generally nice to your face, unless you are a woman, a minority (esp black), or homosexual.  The real danger they pose is one of theocratic encroachment on free society by pushing their discriminatory policies onto the rest of us.  Electing one as president would be a disaster.

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Mel January 23, 2012 at 3:14 pm

Wow Matt, you have read some very interesting anti stuff.

I just wrote this for another site,  thought I would share
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Book of Mormon and the Bible are equal. One talks of the ancient people on one land, but why wouldn’t a loving God give direction to any who might be on another land, or live at any time? I thought he loved everyone equally.

All religions have religious symbol’s. Why should an undergarment be so weird and threatening? It is a protection in that if you are removing it for any reason you would check yourself to make sure it is a good reason. Removal for bathing, workouts, swimming are all appropriate. Removal to cheat on your spouse, not so much. We don’t call it a “magic cross” or “magic head cap” yet, people have no problem criticizing something that means so much to someone because it promotes modesty and moral behavior.

I can’t understand why people feel so harshly against a religion that teaches faith in God, honesty, family first, hard work, service. But because they live these things they are somehow a “cult”?
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I hate when it is said that it is a Male dominant religion.  The LDS church has the largest world wide womens organization. It is a group focused on service and the care of all who will accept.  The women do not hold the Priesthood. As mothers and workers. There is enough responsibility. 

The Word of Wisdom was introduced when Joseph Smiths wife Emma pointed out that cleaning up Tobacco (very prevelent in that time) seemed so dirty in contrast to what was being worked on and discussed.  Prayer led to revelation and realization that addictive substances hurt your body and can take over your thoughts and conduct. it is something that is still being realized even today. It also shows the influence the women really have on the church.  We choose for ourselves not to smoke or drink. We see the struggles others have while trying to quit and are thankful we never started. 

Joseph was uneducated and did need scribes to help the process of translating the plates into the Book of Mormon.  Yet people claim he made it up?  The words he said scared people. The willingness of the people to work hard to turn swampland into a livable environment with flourishing land enticed.  Joseph was jailed under fear and false pretenses. Leaders cowered to mobs instead of honoring the rules they created. 

Yes it took a while to give black males the priesthood.  They were allowed membership since the founding of the church.  Many churches in this country have Black congregations. even to this day. 

You mentioned the high drug use.  I think this happens because we hold ourselves to a very high expectation.  For a while women felt like we needed to do everything and do it with a happy face, willing to take on more.  It seems to me that lately we are starting to accept ourselves and allow ourselves to take a break. to admit we can’t do everyting.  And it’s ok to let some things go. 

Today Mormons are influential, hard working, tech savy, and the first to jump in to help when need arises. We help our neighbors, encourage talent, love good performances, and work in all fields. We are just people trying our best to honor our God, to show faith, to find encouragment for challenges in our lives, and trust that it will all be ok.  We aren’t perfect, be we are striving to be. 

I cannot understand how this is so threatning to our country. This is “news worthy” because a couple of men dared to think that through the work they have done, they could offer service to the country. If you think that service isn’t appropriate then don’t vote for that man. But if you are choosing our leaders based on skin color, gender or religion then you are no better than anyone else.

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