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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Ask Me about Mormonism
 
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Jeb Bush 2012
Apr 4, 2007

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
How common is it for (otherwise orthodox) mormons to not buy the obviously false history stuff? It's one of the more surprising aspects of mormonism from an outside perspective.

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Jeb Bush 2012
Apr 4, 2007

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

Langolas posted:

One thing when I served my Mormon mission in Detroit, we were explicitly instructed we couldn't teach the Muslims in Dearborn. It wasn't because it would of been hard to convert, LDS leaders basically said "if one of these individuals decides to convert and their family finds out they could be killed". Church didn't want to be the cause of a death like that. Only way we could teach them was if they proved their extended family was OK with them learning and we had approval from higher ups. I used to take my morning run to a mosque and talk with the local muslims coming out of prayer in the morning. Loved the friendly theological discussions because they knew we weren't going to join their religion and we wouldn't try to push ours.

I guess it's not surprising that the mormon hierarchy has some crazy loving ideas about muslims, but come on. There are countries where getting murdered for leaving islam is a serious risk. The USA is not one of them.

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Jeb Bush 2012
Apr 4, 2007

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
Presumably if it's just a set of lines and actions you have to know someone's put them up on the internet anyway.

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