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    the mormon reformation

    http://mormonreformation.blogspot.com/

    Between the hours of 9 PM Saturday, February 16 and 9 AM Sunday, February 17, 2013, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and others will post this list of 95 LDS Theses onto the doors of LDS churches around the world.
    Not sure what good it will do but hey if it floats your boat.
    "Be a philosopher. A man can compromise to gain a point. It has become apparent that a man can, within limits, follow his inclinations within the arms of the Church if he does so discreetly." - The Walking Drum

    "And here’s what life comes down to—not how many years you live, but how many of those years are filled with bullshit that doesn’t amount to anything to satisfy the requirements of some dickhead you’ll never get the pleasure of punching in the face." – Adam Carolla
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  • #2
    Originally posted by Mormon Red Death View Post
    http://mormonreformation.blogspot.com/

    Not sure what good it will do but hey if it floats your boat.
    Interesting.

    It's a poor homage to Luther's theses, which were intended to provoke ecclesiastical debate rather than just to bitch and complain.

    In the 16th century, posting theses on the door of a church was the conventional way to start a debate. I'm guessing the LDS church isn't getting ready to wheel out a modern version of Johann Eck.

    But hey, maybe someone will learn something from this.
    "More crazy people to Provo go than to any other town in the state."
    -- Iron County Record. 23 August, 1912. (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...23/ed-1/seq-4/)

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    • #3
      Oh brother.
      "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
      "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
      "Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster

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      • #4
        94. Church leaders often teach us that "warm feelings" are more valid in determining truth than actual, verifiable scholarship.

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        • #5
          I do hope this causes the church to relax on the WOW. That thing is a drag.

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          • #6
            I like the semi-gothic script they used for the title, subheadings and the numbers. It's just edgy enough to get the feel of the late medieval, but modern enough to still be legible.

            These guys are really going about it the wrong way. I'd be surprised if more than a few hundred churches get these posted on their doors. I'd be even more surprised if anyone other than the PEC see them, as they'll be taken down long before anyone arrives for morning services.
            Dio perdona tante cose per un’opera di misericordia
            God forgives many things for an act of mercy
            Alessandro Manzoni

            Knock it off. This board has enough problems without a dose of middle-age lechery.

            pelagius

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            • #7
              Stupid.

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              • #8
                Yeah, this is ridiculous.
                That which may be asserted without evidence may be dismissed without evidence. -C. Hitchens

                http://twitter.com/SoonerCoug

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                • #9
                  *Anti-Mormons do embarrassing things
                  Last edited by Commando; 02-13-2013, 06:23 AM.
                  "I'm anti, can't no government handle a commando / Your man don't want it, Trump's a bitch! I'll make his whole brand go under,"

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                  • #10
                    the mormon reformation

                    Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
                    Oh brother.
                    Yeah. Wow. Ignoring the fact that a lot of those statements are iffy at best (I think the church has done a decent job of dealing with MMM lately, and View of the Hebrews is hardly conclusive, just for starters), posting this on the door of the chapel is really going to do a lot. We have stake conference this weekend; shall I put this on the door and see how that goes?

                    Also, they are aware there already was a Mormon reformation, right?
                    Awesomeness now has a name. Let me introduce myself.

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                    • #11
                      Mormonism is a religion of perpetual individual reformation.
                      Everything in life is an approximation.

                      http://twitter.com/CougarStats

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by nikuman View Post
                        Yeah. Wow. Ignoring the fact that a lot of those statements are iffy at best (I think the church has done a decent job of dealing with MMM lately, and View of the Hebrews is hardly conclusive, just for starters), posting this on the door of the chapel is really going to do a lot. We have stake conference this weekend; shall I put this on the door and see how that goes?

                        Also, they are aware there already was a Mormon reformation, right?
                        You should wait until after stake conference. Who goes to stake conference?
                        "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
                        "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
                        "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
                        GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Solon View Post
                          Interesting.

                          It's a poor homage to Luther's theses, which were intended to provoke ecclesiastical debate rather than just to bitch and complain.

                          In the 16th century, posting theses on the door of a church was the conventional way to start a debate. I'm guessing the LDS church isn't getting ready to wheel out a modern version of Johann Eck.

                          But hey, maybe someone will learn something from this.
                          This. Definitely not in the spirit of the original theses. I don't know that arguments are just bitching and complaining, but they certainly aren't trying to right the wrongs of the church. They are simply trying to tear it down.

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                          • #14
                            It's not worth the trouble to reform. Regardless, we are beyond the religious epochs, except for death throes.
                            When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

                            --Jonathan Swift

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by SeattleUte View Post
                              It's not worth the trouble to reform. Regardless, we are beyond the religious epochs, except for death throes.
                              Pray for us, SU, now and at the hour of our death. We know that you're dying to give us the sacrament of extreme unction.
                              Nothing lasts, but nothing is lost.
                              --William Blake, via Shpongle

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