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I have no income, due to chronic pain and severe mental illnesses. My parents can barely pay the bills and feed us and I am entirely dependent with no freedom at all. Any donations make a huge difference. Venmo: SophieMG44 PayPal: nerthus@gmail.com Cashapp: $sophiemg44

I have no income, due to chronic pain and severe mental illnesses. My parents can barely pay the bills and feed us and I am entirely dependent with no freedom at all. Any donations make a huge difference. Venmo: SophieMG44 PayPal: nerthus@gmail.com Cashapp: $sophiemg44

@screenisemovie We used to be a proper country

Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale on the set of Van Helsing 2004.

Never forget that almost 34 years ago, we learned the government will kill your dog, shoot your 14-year-old son in the back, and snipe your wife in the doorway while she holds your infant child—all over how long the barrel of a shotgun is.

@nypost @taufski4 The perpetrator was a Black male. Why did you leave this out of your post? No photo or description at all of the attacker.

“Nothing is more explicitly pagan than Mormonism. It’s more like Hinduism than it is Christianity.” -John MacArthur

With Mormonism being the scuttlebutt of the hour, thanks to @SenMikeLee demanding the Pentagon undo 2k-year-old historic Christian doctrines to allow their inclusion, you might find my I2I piece on Mormonism and Freemasonry interesting, from a while back: Joseph Smith became a Master Mason in Nauvoo in March of 1842, advancing through the degrees with astonishing speed, and soon surrounded himself with a leadership class heavily populated by fellow Masons, including his brother Hyrum Smith and future successor Brigham Young. The Nauvoo Lodge exploded into one of the largest Masonic bodies in Illinois almost overnight as hundreds of Mormon men entered its ranks, effectively intertwining the lodge and the church. Smith himself occupied a unique concentration of power: prophet, revelator, mayor of Nauvoo, lieutenant general of the Nauvoo Legion, presidential candidate, and Masonic initiate, all at the same time. He presided over a movement that functioned as church, government, military force, and fraternal order simultaneously. Then, within weeks of becoming a Master Mason, he unveiled the Mormon temple endowment, complete with ritual handshakes, sacred signs, ceremonial garments, secret passwords, veiled progression rites, and penalties for revealing the mysteries. He baptized those rituals, declared them divine revelation, and presented them to his followers as sacred ordinances revealed directly from heaven. Millions of people today regard these ceremonies as the pinnacle of God's restored truth, unaware that they originated in a nineteenth-century fraternal order. The parallels are not vague similarities that only cult specialists can detect. They are so obvious that even Mormon historians are forced to acknowledge them. The secret handshakes. The ritual grips. The sacred clothing. The penalties for revealing temple secrets. The progression through degrees of hidden knowledge. The symbols carved into temples. The veils separating one realm from another. Strip away the pseudo-Christian terminology, and what remains is a structure that looks remarkably less like the New Testament church and remarkably more like a Masonic lodge. The Book of Mormon supplied the mythology. Freemasonry supplied the architecture. Joseph Smith fused the two together and called the result "restoration." That reality creates an uncomfortable question for Mike Lee or anyone else insisting Mormonism is merely another Christian denomination. If the defining rituals of the faith were imported from a secret fraternity, if its temple ceremonies were constructed from borrowed Masonic forms, and if its doctrines of exaltation and progressive ascent mirror Masonic concepts of advancing toward greater light, then what exactly was restored? The deeper one digs into Mormon origins, the less it resembles Christianity rediscovered and the more it resembles a frontier-era religious entrepreneur who wraps borrowed rituals in biblical language and persuades thousands that the costume itself is revelation. Once that possibility enters your mind, Mormonism stops looking like an ancient faith restored and starts looking like the most successful act of religious rebranding in American history. Read at Insight to Incite. Link in the next comment.

Mormons when challenged to explicitly affirm their LDS beliefs:

@CrankyHankJ @MamaCAllen Funny how @MamaCAllen has suddenly gone quiet. Hey, Mama Allen:

Pop quiz: 1) Was God the Father once a human? 2) Was God the Son created? 3) Are Jesus & Satan spirit brothers? 4) Has Jesus always been God, from eternity? 5) Are the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit three separate and distinct gods? 6) Was Jesus first conceived a spirit child by the Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother, and then "begotten in flesh" when the Heavenly Father had sex with the Virgin Mary? 7) When Jesus returns, will He set up a one-thousand-year global theocracy based in Jackson County, Missouri? 8) Can humans become gods with all the same attributes as God the Father? 9) Are there other gods just like the Father, Son, & Holy Spirit? 10) Does the leader of your organization receive "revelations from God" that have as much authority as the Bible?

@MamaCAllen The mormons Jesus is not the Jesus of Nazareth.

@carbonmfg I don’t hate them. They’re just not Christians.

@asophiething It's just hate and likely stems from insecurity. It's not a good thing. Wish you were aware of how your bigotry lands.

I hope on some level the LDS who read my admittedly harsh comments understand that I am doing it in the hopes I can help them to question what I have questioned and see what I have seen so they might be saved. Mormon exaltation is the fiction of a conman. Heaven is through Jesus.

The LDS Church was founded on the idea that every Church itemized here is the issue of a ~2nd century Great Apostasy, and thus only Mormons are the "real" Church. Why would you want to be added to a list of all these churches Joseph Smith claimed were heretics?

Tell them about the Egyptian papyrus he claimed to have translated into scripture as the words of Abraham that was confirmed by Egyptologists to be a funerary rite written by an Egyptian woman named Ta-shere-Min, and a man named Hor. That’s a better story!

Joseph Smith is the L. Ron Hubbard of the 19th century.

@HansFiene This post is art. Bravo.

Imagine you're a pastor and a couple tells you that they'd love to join your church, but they are polyamorous, and they want to know if that's acceptable to you. You, of course, say, "no, in order to be a Christian, you have to practice monogamy." But they respond, "oh, but we do! We don't develop close emotional bonds with our other partners. We practice EMOTIONAL fidelity! We just don't believe we have have to practice BODILY fidelity in order to be monogamous." How would you respond? You'd say, "well, the Christian definition of 'monogamy' requires bodily fidelity. It's actually the very core of the concept. So if you want me to acknowledge you as a Christian, you can't reject the thing that is the core of the Christian teaching." In the same way, what do Christians mean when we confess the "divine nature" or the "divinity" of Jesus? Well, for Christians, the very core belief about the nature of God is that He is one. There is no possibility of pantheons or demigods, of created being being exalted into "divine" status. Divinity is not something that can be conferred or multiplied. So when the Mormons tell you that they believe the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are "one in purpose, but not one in nature," they are not simply disagreeing with Christians on HOW God is one. They are fundamentally rejecting the very claim that God IS one. The purpose of the Creeds, of course, was not to bind to the church to a bunch of non-biblical terms or enslave Christians to Greek philosophical constructs. The purpose of the Creeds, on this point, was to give us a concise way to express and defend two very biblical assertions: 1. That God is one. 2. That the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God. When we insist that someone must confess Jesus to be of "one substance" with the Father, we are not haughtily demanding that people subscribe to overly-technical language. We are, very simply, insisting that people believe there is and can be only one God. And so, in the end, when the Mormons accuse us of lying when we say they don't believe in the divinity of Jesus, you should hear this the same way you would a couple in an open marriage whining that you won't acknowledge them as monogamists just because they sleep with other people. Just as polyamorous couples fundamentally reject the heart of "monogamy" by rejecting bodily fidelity, Mormons fundamentally reject the Christian concept of "divinity" by rejecting that the Son is of the same divine substance as the Father.

Joseph Smith adds a prophesy about himself into the bible saying he's a prophet. Yes this happened. A good rule of thumb: Whatever you think of the Mormon church: it's worse. Sorry

@dttpeople Nothing is worse i believe than JS claiming to be greater than Jesus, the 12 apostles and every prophet back to Adam for Christianity.

@Salt_n_Smoke Amen

JOSEPH SMITHs chronological order of polygamy events. Spring of 1844- Gets accused of polygamy, excommunicates the accusers. May 26, 1844- During a public sermon, Joseph denies the claim of polygamy : "What a thing it is for a man to be accused of committing adultery, and having seven wives, when I can only find one." (This sermon is sermon in the grove, it’s the one where he boasts about himself) June 7, 1844- The FIRST AND ONLY issue of the Nauvoo Expositor was printed, exposing the secret practice of plural marriage and criticizing Joseph's political power. June 10, 1844 - Joseph uses his political power(mayor) to champion for the city council to destroy the Printing press. Fast forward. October 30, 2014 - “Gospel Topic Essay Release” - The LDS church officially publishes the history acknowledging Joseph’s plural marriages. They even say “It is apparent that Joseph withheld knowledge of some of these relationships from Emma.” ***Current LDS sources now affirm Joseph practiced plural marriage. ***Joseph publicly denied accusations to what the church now acknowledges. So the printing press was telling the truth the whole time? Not Joseph Smith?! This does not sound like someone who follows Jesus Christ. No way I would put my salvation or faith anywhere near that man.