• RustyShackleford@piefed.social
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      21 days ago

      Alright, alright, let me put the tinfoil on low heat for a second.

      Old Testament: Gog is the boss, Magog is his turf and crew. They roll up for a big end-times fight… and get absolutely smote. End of story.

      New Testament? Same names, but now it’s basically everyone and their cousin joining the rebellion. Bigger crowd, same outcome, still gets shut down.

      So yeah… same names, bigger scale.

      It’s like a sequel where the budget goes up, but the villain still loses in the last five minutes.

      And let’s be honest, if your battle plan keeps ending in divine smiting, maybe… workshop the strategy.

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      21 days ago

      Well, it’s not as far fetched as believing that a grifter found some golden tablets in the woods and a magic hat translated the markings for him.

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        20 days ago

        Ya know, people believe strange things all of the time, but the thing that has always perplexed me about LDS is that Joseph Smith had a posse destroy the local newspaper’s press and died after shooting four people and falling out a window, but his religion lives on.

        All that said, I dont like to pick on mormons. The mormons ive encountered have been very positive people that were raised with manners and a strong moral compass. They also have been very family focused.

        I’m sure those traits are not 100% universal and The Secret Live of Moron Wives definitely tells a different tale, but in my personal experience having lived in Salt Lake City and a heavily Mormon town in Wyoming, Mormon folk are generally good people, and I credit their religion for a lot of it.

        Their mission work is pretty danged cool and “Christian” and they’re preppers by religious mandate.

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          20 days ago

          The Judeo-Christian God is self-absorbed, vindictive, violent, unpredictable, callous and often wrong. Joseph Smith well serves as a prophet in his image.