Mormon411: Religion In the News This Week

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Religion In the News This Week

Great news! The LDS church is losing members rapidly! Time to pull out the booze and celebrate!

In other news: religious leader rapes a teenager.

http://fox13now.com/2012/03/20/holy-ghost-religious-leader-charged-with-raping-teen/

Why are religious people so fucked up?

I mean really! Isn't the whole idea of religion supposed to make people better? Then why do we always hear in the news about some religious leader who can't keep his hands out of young children's underwear?

Religion is primitive. We need to move beyond it.

And in other news:

http://fox13now.com/2012/03/20/lds-missionary-in-critical-condition-after-hit-by-bus-in-brazil/

An LDS missionary serving in Brazil is hit by a bus and is in critical condition. I wonder why his garments didn't save him?...

12 comments:

Alex said...: "If people are leaving, it's really a mark that we need to get deeper into our faith."

Brilliant.

It's actually a mark that maybe there's something fundamentally flawed about the religion.; March 24, 2012 at 10:21 AM
cara lou said...: "...told her he received a revelation from God telling him to have sex with her so she would be 'blessed.'"

Hmmm....where have I heard this before....; March 24, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Heather said...: In the first video it mentioned something about the church correcting doctrine in manuals and on the internet to help bring people back? I guess the doctrine isn't dumbed up enough as it is. Pretty soon the lessons will be coming from preschool cardboard books with large pop out pictures. That should really keep people interested in Sunday School...; March 24, 2012 at 11:20 AM
Mormon411 said...: And a classic example of Mormonism came from the woman who said something to the effect of, "When people are prosperous, they turn away from god."

Yep, blame it on the people. The church is perfect.; March 24, 2012 at 11:24 AM
hatman said...: "Then why do we always hear in the news about some religious leader who can't keep his hands out of young children's underwear?"

Well it probably makes better news then some atheist kiddy fiddling. The atheist part would just not make it into the news. The media love a good church molestation story.

That being said there does seem to be some sort of “greater being” that pushes those in positions of power within the church to touch what they should not more often than in the real world. Maybe it has something to do with their assumed power or they feel excused by their closeness to god? Or perhaps if they are deluded enough to believe then the paedophilia somehow is just another step into delusion.; March 28, 2012 at 2:43 PM
Mormon411 said...: Hatman,

With all due respect, I have to slightly disagree with you. I believe our "Christian nation" would just love a good story about an atheist child molester. It would give them all sorts of reasons to point fingers and claim that is what atheism does to people. I just find it odd that atheists are so rarely in the news for crimes (in fact, none that I can even recall). Maybe it's because they are actually good people?!?!; March 29, 2012 at 8:53 PM
Andrew Hall said...: I'm going to put the LDS news on Purgatory. It's too good not to share!; March 31, 2012 at 5:04 AM
Mormon411 said...: Glad you liked it, Andy, and thanks for sharing!; April 6, 2012 at 6:41 AM
Citizen Atheist said...: Religious people are fucked up because they feel that they don't have the power to control their own actions. They absolve themselves of any responsibility that normal people have and whenever they have a wicked thought, they feel that they are powerless to avoid acting on it.

Religion makes people lazy and wicked. They feel that they can do anything they want, so long as they repent in time.; April 29, 2012 at 10:55 AM
Anonymous said...: Too RIGHT they are losing followers-I PUT UP with being LIED TO,MANIPULATED and generally made to feel awfully GUILTY for two years...My partner of eight years died last November and yes,the church was v supportive.HOWEVER,this did NOT stop them WHINING about me smoking,drinking and taking valium just to COPE.HONESTLY-You would have thought I was on CRACK or something-The mishies actually came and poked around,looking for pills,weed,alchohol etc even looking in my FRIDGE,at such an AWFUL time I really did not appreciate their WHINGING about the Word of Wisdom,pressure tactics and general INVASION of my privacy...It put me RIGHT OFF I can tell you...NOT surprised their losing members.Lets face it,not many of us can AFFORD the tithing,offerings etc....Not to MENTION the expense of Temple trips and conferences we are bullied into attending at this time of deep,global recession....

,; May 18, 2012 at 9:54 AM
Anonymous said...: Well, it was fun while it lasted. Some of the stuff you have posted is, well, to be quite honest with you, uh, fucked up. I thought you were ok there for a while, but now, well, uh, you're just a dick. When you do die, hopefully many mnay years from now, you will find that life does go on, it doesn't just end in that cold dark box. And you will get to start all over again.; July 10, 2012 at 10:19 PM
Mormon411 said...: Weston, are you a woman? I ask because you go through mood swings like I have never seen before!; July 16, 2012 at 4:19 PM

Quotes & Thoughts

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Faith is just gullibility. ~ The Atheist Experience
Don't teach creationism in my school and I won't preach evolution in your church!
In your fiction book, your fiction god did a fiction miracle and that's all the proof you need!
"It's called FAITH because it is not KNOWLEDGE" ~ Christopher Hitchens
"...faith, by definition, is believing in things without evidence and, personally, I don't do that because I'm not an idiot." ~Kate Smurthwaite
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A diety who remains silent and invisible should not be angry or surprised when its existance is doubted.
Intelligent Design: Because it's so much easier to just invent an answer.
99% of people who DENY evolution can't even DEFINE it!
If money is the root of all evil, why do churches want it?
The Bible was written by the same people who said the earth was flat.
When you don't see the truth, it's easy to accept the illusion.
What most anti-evolution supporters don’t realize is that to nearly anyone educated in biological sciences, an anti-evolution world view today is almost equal to holding a position that the Earth is flat, and the sun revolves around the Earth.
There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.
"Does religion work? It brings some of us solace, impels some to do good (and others to fly planes into buildings), and buttresses the same moral truths embraced by atheists, but does it help us better understand our world or our universe? Hardly." ~ USA Today
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"What's so merciful about a god who punishes Adam and Eve and all of their descendants over a stupid piece of fruit?" ~ Khalid Thalib
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Isn't it ironic that both you and your god hate the same things?
"Santa Claus never asked for 10% and I still got everything I wanted. And I wasn't good all the time either. I paid the Mormon church 10% and got zip." ~ Let Go
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"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?" ~ Dan Barker, Losing Faith in Faith
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"...if God told us to brush our teeth with mud I would do it." ~ Anon TBM
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"What have I got to lose? My family? No. They are already gone. They were gone as soon as I was gone from their "family oriented" church." ~ ex-Mormon
"He (Joseph Smith) may get drunk every day of his life, sleep with his neighbor's wife every night, run horses and gamble... but the doctrine he has produced will save you and me and the whole world." ~ Will Jarvis
"My most painful Mormon experience was learning that having faith in something does not necessarily make it true." ~ Anon
"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction." ~Richard Dawkins
"If a faith will not bear to be investigated; if its preachers and professors are afraid to have it examined, their foundation must be very weak." ~George Albert Smith
Prayer: How to do nothing and still think you're helping.
"Being an atheist means you've been able to see through the social pressure, black balling, guilt trips, propaganda, threats against your eternal soul, etc. and be a rational person in an otherwise irrational age. We think that's something to be proud of." ~The Arrogant Atheist
"Every member a missionary? Every member a revenue generator" ~Brian, ex-Mormon
"I love god. He's so deliciously evil!" ~Stewie Griffin
"We met in a little place called the MTC... If you don't know what the MTC is, then you're not cool." ~April Fenn, LDS church member
"This is our most devastating problem... retention." ~Sister "Nana" Barker, LDS Missionary
"Each of us has to face the matter—either the Church is true, or it is a fraud. There is no middle ground. It is the Church and kingdom of God, or it is nothing." ~Gordon B. Hinckley
What's the difference between a teenager and a Mormon? Eventually the teenager will realize that he doesn't know everything.
"How we treat others is a measure of what we think of ourselves" ~Sharon Bower
Atheists have morals too.
If complexity necessitates a creator, wouldn't our creator also need a creator?
Santa Clause is to children as Jesus Christ is to adults.
"If you are truly searching for the truth, then you must be prepared to admit that you don't already have it." ~Myself as a former LDS missionary
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