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UK TV show starts next week- Meet The Mormons
June 21, 2014 at 1:29 pm
This looks pretty interesting. Already I have learned that they have to wear magic underpants and are not allowed out of each other's sight.
Should give me loads of ammunition next time they knock on my door.
http://www.channel4.com/info/press/progr...he-mormons
It's not immoral to eat meat, abort a fetus or love someone of the same sex...I think that about covers it
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RE: UK TV show starts next week- Meet The Mormons
June 21, 2014 at 1:51 pm
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Oh channel 4. Sometimes they make such great shows...and other times they don't (gypsy weddings...urgh!)
Guess it will be interesting to see how they life their missionary lives over here, however past 'altercations' with them and their sometimes very intimidating tactics of cornering people on street corners to talk about their fucking book has left a lasting bitter taste in my mouth whenever I see them, and there's a Mormon enclave (?)/church/missionary about 15 minutes away from me, so I see them a lot.
"Can we walk with you and talk to you about Jesus?"
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RE: UK TV show starts next week- Meet The Mormons
June 21, 2014 at 1:59 pm
(June 21, 2014 at 1:51 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: and there's a Mormon enclave (?)/church/missionary about 15 minutes away from me, so I see them a lot.
"Can we walk with you and talk to you about Jesus?"
Ah but now you'll be able to turn that around:
" No, let's talk about you instead. How are the magic underpants? Are you allowed to have sex yet? Do they pick your missus for you?"
I think this will be a disaster for them. PR wise
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RE: UK TV show starts next week- Meet The Mormons
June 21, 2014 at 5:12 pm
Given the goofy America-centric conceit of the Book of Mormon, I really don't understand what the appeal of Mormonism would be for people outside the U.S. Do their foreign mission efforts really lead to converts?
I hope the show is a disaster for them, and I hope a lot of people in the U.S. see it too -- specially in Utah and other western states.
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RE: UK TV show starts next week- Meet The Mormons
June 22, 2014 at 11:45 pm
The Mormons believe in baptizing the dead, which was an original Christian ritual. The Christians gave it up and started baptizing babies. The theory was to get them before they die instead of afterwards.
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RE: UK TV show starts next week- Meet The Mormons
June 23, 2014 at 12:16 am
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(June 21, 2014 at 5:12 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: Given the goofy America-centric conceit of the Book of Mormon, I really don't understand what the appeal of Mormonism would be for people outside the U.S. Do their foreign mission efforts really lead to converts?
I hope the show is a disaster for them, and I hope a lot of people in the U.S. see it too -- specially in Utah and other western states.
Ah but you miss the "secret" teachings (now all over the net) about how everyone can become a god on his own planet with multiple wives (or at least they can if they are a man). Don't you want to be a god with a harem?
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.