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Just and unjust societies in the Book of Mosiah

Geoff B. — Sun, 20 May 2012 22:14:55 PDT

The people described in the book of Mosiah in the Book of Mormon are constantly on the move, and as they move around they repeatedly set up new societies. Some of these societies are morally just – moving toward Zion – and others are morally unjust – clearly Babylon-like. Hence, a careful reader will easily [...]

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Women don’t want to be condescended to….

rameumptom — Sun, 20 May 2012 15:14:55 PDT

Campbell Brown writes an excellent article in the NY Times Sunday edition – “Obama: Stop Condescending to Women” In the article, she notes that Pres Obama is trying to court women voters (especially college age) by suggesting that abortion and free contraceptive rights are highly important to all women. What does Brown think of the [...]

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Bring on the Rev. Wright Story

jettboy — Fri, 18 May 2012 22:08:32 PDT

The news burst open about a political Super PAC who supports Romney considering using Obama’s history with the controversial Rev. Wright. No specifics were revealed in what way the relationship would be used. Despite existing in a planning stage, most of the mainstream media went ballistic over the possibility. Romney denounced its use and the [...]

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Do Gays really want Marriage?

rameumptom — Wed, 16 May 2012 06:51:44 PDT

An article at National Review brings out some interesting statistics here in the USA and other countries that have long had civil unions/marriages for homosexuals: First, very few homosexuals are actually getting married here or elsewhere. Second, in Norway and elsewhere, gay men have a 50% greater divorce rate than heterosexuals. Third, in Norway, lesbians [...]

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In Tribute of Heavenly Mother

jettboy — Sun, 13 May 2012 15:07:31 PDT

Flowers blooming and grass turning green is once more a reminder that the season of Mother’s Day has arrived. Men will sing to the women in their lives and children hand out small gifts in token of those who gave them life. It would seem remiss to forget the unique Mormon teaching of a Heavenly [...]

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Prediction: America will elect a Mormon president in 2012

Geoff B. — Fri, 11 May 2012 07:49:04 PDT

Mitt Romney is not my favorite candidate. I find his foreign policy dangerous and foolhardy from a financial perspective. I think his budget proposals do not provide the budget cuts we need. I am a Ron Paul supporter. But discussing the future is always fun, and I think Mitt Romney will win in 2012, so [...]

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End of USA coal burning plants

rameumptom — Thu, 10 May 2012 00:55:14 PDT

Note the Scientific American article stating that regulations from EPA will effectively end the development of new coal-fired plants and eventually force current ones out of business. Hey, we can replace them with cheap oil, right? I mean, coal only manages 23% of our nation’s fuel/energy. The good news is that we’ll be able to [...]

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Why the Church doesn’t have creeds or dogmas.

rameumptom — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:55:14 PDT

Recently, someone asked me why the Church does not have a set of specific doctrines to neatly create a broad theology and foundation for all we believe. Why don’t we have an established theology, developed by great philosopher-prophets like St Augustine, Origen, More or Aquinas? In pondering it, I believe the LDS Church intentionally does [...]

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Tips For Using Time-Out With Toddlers

Nicholeen Peck — Tue, 08 May 2012 20:14:43 PDT

“My 2 year old has started crying a LOT the past few days. Over every little thing. Nothing is different physically or environmentally that I can tell. He already has his 2yo molars, too.. He’s just been crying about everything that he doesn’t like, with some pretty good tantrums thrown in the mix of the [...]

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Book of Mormon lesson 19

rameumptom — Mon, 07 May 2012 16:58:42 PDT

Lesson 19 is now on my blog. I did some close review of the text this time, bringing up questions and thoughts of things not explained in the story line. Hope you like it. http://joelsmonastery.blogspot.com/2012/05/book-of-mormon-lesson-19-none-could.html Read there / comment here Book of Mormon lesson 19 is a post from: The Millennial Star

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