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You know what's always bugged me about the Mormon Church? The name doesn't parse. "The Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints" just sounds wrong. Has anyone ever suggested "The Church of Jesus Christ AND Later Day Saints"? Much better, frankly. I grew up Southern Baptist, which is the most anti-central-structure you can get without straight up being non-denominational. Each church is responsible only to its own members. New pastors are elected by the congregation. You can visit ten Baptist churches and find ten different ideas on faith and rules. There's a Southern Baptist Convention but it's basically a social club with no authority over anyone and you join by having your church go "yep, we believe in Jesus". It's lax as gently caress, so I've always been fascinated by things like Mormonism and those denominations that are way more structured and rigid. I'm agnostic now, but it's still interesting.
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Paramemetic posted:Mormons are literally Zionists, it's just they think that Zion is going to be in Missouri. This is the most depressing thing I've ever heard. So, I'm guessing that the reason the Mormons didn't just settle in Missouri was that Missouri didn't want them? So they went to Utah because it had yet to really be settled by white people and they decided to use that as a base of operations while casting glances at Missouri and muttering "soon"?
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Sep 17, 2016 04:59
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So like, is the priesthood given to ALL good Mormon males or just a select few? Like if you don't get it are you looked down upon?
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Sep 18, 2016 00:16
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