tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3652957.post1938757376458563664..comments2024-03-18T12:22:23.106-07:00Comments on Thumper Thinks Out Loud: 16 April 2018Thumperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02154314376352066709noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3652957.post-21798370172147634522018-04-18T20:31:12.365-07:002018-04-18T20:31:12.365-07:00I understand your struggles with relious views. I...I understand your struggles with relious views. I think the Mormon and Scientology religions are some of the strangest religious ideas ever created by people (and most of the others are TOO far behind). But I do think the Mormons and Scientologists are odder than most.<br /><br />I was never religious. My parents were sort of Deist (some deity created the universe but left). I am an atheist.Mark's Mews (Marley, Lori, Loki, and Binq)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11135668126649348317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3652957.post-91374501827208837622018-04-16T21:26:46.524-07:002018-04-16T21:26:46.524-07:00Excellent post, Thumper. Not to make light of extr...Excellent post, Thumper. Not to make light of extremely serious (even criminal) problem with LDS, but I never could get past the magic underpants. I have serious concerns about their influence (or frankly, any religion's influence) on public policy. There should be a wall -- a tremendous wall -- between church and state, period. Keeping a kid from being with his dying mother -- that's a Karen Nicholshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15683763783622118192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3652957.post-48343735330491684252018-04-16T19:53:08.575-07:002018-04-16T19:53:08.575-07:00My childhood was Presbyterian. The whole "pre...My childhood was Presbyterian. The whole "pre-destiny" BS. The whole idea of the guy in the sky never made sense to me. Never mind a trinity...Huh??? I tried, real hard, for a number of years to find a religion. The entire culture of religion (IMHO) was a corporation that existed for the money. I finally figured out that religion didn't need me and I didn't need it. Thank you gizzylawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07002319928707299695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3652957.post-10458499914017490592018-04-16T15:00:13.015-07:002018-04-16T15:00:13.015-07:00The only contact I have had with the LDS church is...The only contact I have had with the LDS church is at the Hill Cummorah Pagent because I live less than 10 miles from there, and the Sacred Grove. The Pagent is spectacular, but the story is really weird. I always tell the missionaries that I'm a Catholic and not interested in anything else. But I'm not even interested in being Catholic for a whole buttload of reasons. MeezerMomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00002913344233812489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3652957.post-64159102761836265772018-04-16T13:54:28.097-07:002018-04-16T13:54:28.097-07:00I haven't seen the LDS at work (outside of how...I haven't seen the LDS at work (outside of how they're sympathetically portrayed in The Expanse) but I had my earliest years in Northern Ireland when the Troubles were calming down.<br /><br />At that time as a 5 to 11 year old, I was the English boy in the midst of a sea of Protestant and Catholic boys. I couldn't understand why they didn't get on. Same god right ? Why were they Sleepypetehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11143274290029186546noreply@blogger.com