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Joseph Smith founded Mormonism and he was martyred, just like Jesus and the apostles. Why would he have founded a religion that would only get him killed? He must have believed in it.

I can relate, I remember crying my eyes out when I was 12 I went to Boy Scout camp for a week, it was embarrassing but I couldn't help it. I'm not sure what advice to give, other than maybe it would be helpful to view it as making you stronger. Like anything that makes us stronger, it only...

How can you be so certain God spoke to you? There's no way you can be 100% certain. Better to say, "I believe God may have spoken to me." its more honest and more realistic, since it allows for the very likely possibility that God did not speak to you. I say this because a person can get hurt by...

Num 12:41, Moses had a wife from Cush

No you're not wrong, sex abuse in church is rampant. Listen to your gut instincts and don't be afraid to speak your mind. Pastors have done a terrible job of handling this issue, they generally try to cover it up.

Writing has been around for only 5,000 years

Pointing out others sins should not be a fun thing to do. Too many people get a gleeful rush from doing it. If you point out sin in someones life it should be done with a heavy heart and with a great deal of care, so that the sinner understands you aren't just merrily knocking them down for...

Society is evolving, eg, we have secular states nowadays, but 200 years ago we didn't. Religious freedom is a very new idea, and by new I mean only a couple hundred years. I have been pondering lately the definition of what is considered a long time or a short time. Like my grandmaom is 95 and...

If Calvin is excused for simply being a product of his times and culture, then we should excuse al Qaeda on that same basis.

Kids grow out of it by the time they are like 5, so no harm done.

Good stuff there, I think the best example of God approving of lying is when the midwives spared the Hebrew babies' lives instead of killing them like Pharoah told them to do. They made up a lie to justify why they didn't kill the babies.

Another thing, it seems like nowadays Loving Your Job is the new measure of success, at least for my generation. I don't think my parents generation had the same obsession with it. Like it isn't enough that I get up and commute and work 40 hours a week, if I don't love my job, people look at me...

I don't think you are a liar. Firstly, you were asked an unwelcome question. They had no right to ask if you like your job or not. If people ask me a question that isn't any of their concern, I don't feel bad about lying to them. No one has the right to come up to me and demand that I share my...

The Jewish state was wiped out 2000 years ago and it was re-instituted in 1948. The Aztecs got wiped out 500 years ago, and although their descendants live, it doesn't look like an Aztec state is forthcoming. The Gypsies left India 1,000 years ago and have lived as a people without a state...

How about an ancient people coming coming back from the brink and re-establishing a modern state? There is not historical parrallel that I know of. The modern state of ISrael is an oddity. The ancient Jews' contemporaries, the Hittites, the Edomites, etc. where are they now? Their descendants...

What is consciousness?

I agree

I read that King James himself was a sodomite

A very good resource, applicable to all denominations: StopBaptistPredators.org Stop Baptist Predators

I experienced it in junior high. I'm glad I knew things like Love your enemies, forgive everyone 70x7 times, etc. I might have gone Columbine otherwise. In church the bullying is more hard to recognize, but its there. When you are a kid, the best thing to do is to fight back physically. I...