hedge wrote:IB is certainly not the first nor, I suspect, will he be the last to use religion as an excuse for lying to hide one's poor behavior, and indeed as an excuse for the poor behavior itself. Sounds like a real winner...
If I do somehow find myself face to face with God after I die, the first thing I'm going to say to him is: I forgive you...
Yeah, it comes down to GRACE. If you accept that you are saved purely by God's Grace (because that is what Christ has taught) then you don't have all these problems. Te'o? That is NOT what he was taught. He has to EARN IT!
I can't even begin to list all the trials and pitfalls good Mormon men must go through to be "in good standing" in their church. It's ridiculous. Books and books and books of rules, rules on top of rules, rules that contradict with one another but that's okay, they have a
Prophet to help straighten all that out.... It is enough to drive someone like Te'o insane.
And don't get me started on what happens to the LDS when someone in their immediate flock gets a Testimonial to leave that faith. You'd think the world just came to end.
Feminism: Eve eats ALL the apples, gives God the middle finder when He confronts her, and has the serpent serve Adam with an injunction ordering him to both stay away from her AND to provide her food and shelter because he dragged her out of the Garden.
