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Mormon Church Goes After WikiLeaks
An anonymous reader writes "The Mormon Church has instructed its lawyers to gag the Internet over WikiLeaks' release of the 1968 and 1999 versions of its confidential handbook for Church leaders. Apart from attacking WikiLeaks, legal demands were sent to Jimmy Wales of the WikiMedia foundation for a WikiNews article merely linking to the material, and scribd.com has also been censored. WikiLeaks has (of course) refused to remove the documents."
Why not just pray to god about it? Isn't that why you people have a god?
Yes, I'm left. You have a problem with that?
religions are tax free. they should, in return, disclose ALL their so-called 'secrets'.
this is supposed to be about god, right? right? why would a deity want his 'true word' kept a secret?
this makes no sense.
then again, NO religion makes sense. none of them - that involve a creator an a lot of MADE UP SHIT that has never been found to have a shred of actual truth (historically or scientifically) in it.
"I know how to do magic." "you do?" "yes, but I can't tell you or it ruins it"
same shit with religion.
haven't we humans had enough of this 'scare and control primitive man' stuff yet? (don't answer that - we all know what the answer is).
btw, does anyone have an archive.org (etc) link of the data they removed? I'm really curious, now, what they think is SO special that god, himself, will get so annoyed at us for knowing such things. I bet it makes their religion look silly (sillier than normal) and we can't have THAT, now, can we?
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I believe that is true, MOST religions can handle a little casual rejection, but one of the major ones, Islam, IIRC, has a real dim view of letting you go once you've bought in. I think stoning was the prescribed answer.
The cost of that cleanup, of course, will be borne by taxpayers, not industry.
If normal men used the traditional Mormon worker/breeder round-robin hive strategy we could probably operate on their level. But since the Morman's Texas nest-complex shut down it looks like that's fast becoming nothing more than an Austrian dream.
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You don't think magical underwear is weired? You must be a mormon.. It never ceases to amaze me how stupid people are. Some piece of clothes all of a sudden have magic meaning. It's so absurd it's beyond comprehension. And no, I don;t care if you call yourself mormon or muslim or anything else. If you think religious clothing is a must, you have some serious mental issues.
If you mod me down, I *will* introduce you to my sister!
As Mencken put it: "We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
I myself get angry when people tell me that being Catholic that I am not a christian
I tell Catholics this, too. Mainly just to piss 'em off for their little "closed communion" thingy and what not. I don't really believe it, but I say it anyway to start an argument. I was at a Catholic wedding once, and the priest made a special point to un-invite all us pagans (you know Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, etc.) not to come up for their little ritual. Under my breath, I said "We're not worthy", to myself. Except I guess it wasn't just under my breath and to myself alone, because several people approached me at the reception to say: "We're not worthy, either."
I am not a crackpot.
What's flamebait about asking people who believe in god and his actions to talk to their god about addressing their grievance?
Are you afraid to answer the question you pathetic cunt?
FUCK YOU AND YOUR FLAMEBAIT MOD YOU COCKSUCKING MORMON PIECE OF SHIT.