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The Story of St. Patrick
With St Patrick’s day being here, I wanted to tell the story of St Patrick. Mormons love good missionary stories, and I think the story of St Patrick is a wonderful missionary story. The information below comes from a DVD titled, Christianity-The First Two Thousand Years. (It was originally aired on A&E.) If you want […]
Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess
A few weeks ago, I read this humorous article in the Deseret News which basically said the men don’t attend book clubs. I loved this quote: “Men realize that they are only allocated a certain number of spoken words in their lifetime, so being of a cautious nature, they choose not to waste words on […]
Baptism for the Dead – So What?
Recently, there has been some news where Jews object to the Mormon practice of baptism for the dead, especially for Holocaust victims. Catholics have also objected to the Mormons use of old church records for the purpose of baptism for the dead. I came across an Irish Columnist who basically says, “Why do they […]
Anonymous bad behavior: Are you guilty?
Internet anonymity can have both good and bad consqeuences. Some people can fall in love, yet never meet in person. Others, can engage in sociopathic behavior that they would not do without the cloak of anonymity. This blog came about because I wanted to ask provocative questions that I didn’t feel safe to do in […]
Does God care who wins?
Here in Utah, during the week of the Utah-BYU football game, also known as the “Holy War”, fans on each side and get downright fanatical. Being the church school, many mormons pretty much bear testimony that BYU is “the Lord’s school”, and that God wants BYU to win. Fans of Utah get quite upset about […]
Is MLK’s dream fulfilled by Obama?
On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King game his famous “I have a dream speech.” He said, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” There has been […]
From Heretic to Hero
Sometimes I can be a little controversial, as in my previous post. If you will notice my About page, you will see a painting of Galileo, my favorite heretic. It seems the vatican is trying to show that faith and science aren’t always opposing. Check it out here. So is it possible to be a […]
Be Ye Therefore perfect; What does it really mean?
There was a great post over at Mormon Matters on whether God can tempt us above that which we are able. In short, I think that it is possible for us to be tempted more than we can bear, Does it come from God? I’m undecided. But if you want to weigh in on that […]
Mormon Heretic 