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aTotal360

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Anyone watching it on Netflix? It's pretty interesting. For some reason I really get into the history of religions. This one has draw me in. Especially since there are tangible items involved.

I have to admit, outside of Jim McMahon and Steve Young, I know very little about Mormonism.
 
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aTotal360 said:
Anyone watching it on Netflix? It's pretty interesting. For some reason I really get into the history of religions. This one has draw me in. Especially since there are tangible items involved.

I have to admit, outside of Jim McMahon and Steve Young, I know very little about Mormonism.
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Their theology is jam-packed with some wild stuff. About as crazy as Scientology. Women being eternally pregnant, inheriting your own planet, etc.
 
tribaldawg

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forestdepth said:
Their theology is jam-packed with some wild stuff. About as crazy as Scientology. Women being eternally pregnant, inheriting your own planet, etc.
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Inheriting your own planet was not originally in their beliefs but arose after thinking their wives may be eternally pregnant.**
 
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Well, a person of one religion can always say that other religions have some wild stuff. Catholics, for instance, believe in exorcism. Baptists think a sip of wine will send you straight to hell. Point is, to a Mormon, those things you mentioned aren't so wild. I'm not a Mormon.
 
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Hump4Hoops

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While I agree, mainstream Christianity is pretty wild too.

Virgin conception, water into wine, 2 of every animal on a boat, 40 days and nights in the desert with no food or water, parting the red sea, the burning bush, a lady getting turned into a pillar of salt for... looking? And that's just well known stuff. Getting into the weeds, there's some even crazier stuff.

Almost every religion sounds batshit crazy to anyone who's not a believer.
 
GloryDawg

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Hump4Hoops said:
Virgin conception, water into wine, 2 of every animal on a boat, 40 days and nights in the desert with no food or water, parting the red sea, the burning bush, a lady getting turned into a pillar of salt for... looking? And that's just well known stuff. Getting into the weeds, there's some even crazier stuff.

Almost every religion sounds batshit crazy to anyone who's not a believer.
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Mormons believe both the Old Testament and New.
 
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I know a lot of Mormons and they are some of the best people I know and generally consider southern Christians in the same fight. Because of them Utah is in high consideration for my retirement home.
 
tribaldawg

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RocketDawg said:
Well, a person of one religion can always say that other religions have some wild stuff. Catholics, for instance, believe in exorcism. Baptists think a sip of wine will send you straight to hell. Point is, to a Mormon, those things you mentioned aren't so wild. I'm not a Mormon.
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I've been in Baptist churches all my life and have never heard anybody say a sip (or drinking in general) will send you to hell. Having said that, the Bible does speak against being a drunkard which you must have ignored when you were posting your comment.
 
tribaldawg

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They may believe both but their theology is incorrect on extremely important issues.
 
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The Bible isn’t a religion.
Many religions have spawned from the Bible.
Many historians and scholars who aren’t Christian have found it hard to argue with the historical significance of the Bible.

Are there some miraculous things in the Bible? Yes.
Do some of them have different meanings than what some people interpret? Sure.

But im gonna err on the side of believing one of it not the most historically significant documents in the world.

Oh and I’m a sinner and do it everyday. Trying to be better.
 
DesotoCountyDawg

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Same here. I know several families from Utah and they are some of the best people you’ll ever find.
 
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To Christians it’s pretty crazy to believe all this around us is the product of some atoms exploding 13 billion years ago
 
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Y'all never watched HBO's Big Love? Pretty great show until the last season. It offers a peak behind the curtain ( a hollywood version, anyway)
 
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dorndawg said:
Catch "Book of Mormon" sometime and you'll like triple your knowledge.
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I did in NY 2 years ago. I was laughing my *** off. So I amend my previous statement. Everything I know about Mormonism is a result of Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
 
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DesotoCountyDawg said:
Same here. I know several families from Utah and they are some of the best people you’ll ever find.
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True statement for sure, but that is not the issue in this thread...no one should question the quality of life lived by the Mormons in general. I've met some of the meanest tempered folks I know in a church setting...lol.
 
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Mormonism is very interesting. Many of them are into genealogy because they think you can baptize someone after they die and get them into heaven.
 
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GloryDawg said:
What does someone has to do to go to heaven in your belief?
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Accept Jesus Christ as lord and Savior.

Unlike other religions which believe you have to be predestined or otherwise were created for the sole purpose of eternal damnation.
 
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Thinking a tribe of Israel somehow made their way to the New World long before anyone else...and that Native Americans are basically Jews with red skin, because that was some punishment from God....is....on the same level of crazy as believing in a flat Earth, a young Earth, or that Nickelback and Michael Bay are "high art"....
 
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aTotal360 said:
Anyone watching it on Netflix? It's pretty interesting. For some reason I really get into the history of religions. This one has draw me in. Especially since there are tangible items involved.

I have to admit, outside of Jim McMahon and Steve Young, I know very little about Mormonism.
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Jim McMahon is not a Mormon. Very far from it. He was raised Catholic. He left BYU after his senior football season because of many run ins with the BYU police. Things like throwing beer cans at Brigham Young's statue and wearing a Battlestar Prophylactica T-shirt with a big condom spaceship on it. McMahon didn't think much of the Mormon honor code he signed. When a reporter asked him his best memory of BYU McMahon responded "leaving".
 
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I guess, then, that those 3 wise men must believe everyone goes to heaven because surely everyone has it with themselves to choose that option.
 
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aTotal360 said:
I have to admit, outside of Jim McMahon and Steve Young, I know very little about Mormonism.
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Ove read about byu football back then- there was another notable qb too in that era. Just thought it was crazy that in the 70s/80s that place was a hotbed for offense.


The religion seems extreme to me, but no moreso than other religions/faiths.
I've always been fascinated by how many Mormons marry before they graduate college. An unmarried 28 year old in that culture is an old unwanted hag, relatively speaking.
BYU and Utah athletics are filled with married athletes and a ton marry within athletics.

It's neat that the divorce rate for Mormons is half that of the US population overall.
 
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