How To Use Mormon In A Sentence
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So I was writing an email about comparing Mormonism and traditional Christianity and I wrote “moronism” instead.
Moronism « Christopher Colaninno
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That he expressed the general feeling in our train was evidenced by the many women who leaned from the wagons, thrusting out gaunt forearms and shaking bony, labor-malformed fists at the last of Mormondom.
Chapter 13
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Mormons, an overwhelmingly Republican demographic (nicknamed the blacks of the GOP), make up something like a third of the people in dentistry school.
Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Teacher’s Unions
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The audacity of some people. chris Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 07: 56 PM EST the cute gay guy and the beefcake are the only reasons that i'm watching this season. the closeted mormon just might be the reason i stop watching before the season ends
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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He has no clue how high the turnout can be and thus his numbers are based on invalid assumptions of what Kerry was able to achieve with votes and the false premise that Romney (the mormon) or Guiliani (the crossdresser) would pull the same number of votes as Bush.
Obama Says He Can Flip Deep South States. But Can He Really?
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It looks like this site tried to googlebomb the phrase, "Mormon Temple Weirdness," as a way of countering tonight's Big Love episode.
Archive 2009-03-15
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Up here in the hills of the Acadien Orogeny (geology talk) I like to think My little farm might be too far east to lay under significant ashfall (yes, I am the Pollyanna Pessimist and I actualy think about such things, but I grew up a mormon so you might understand ...).
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
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The church can't really back away from the use of the term Mormon, given the ingrained history of the term and resources the church used to establish it.
ScrippsNews
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Richard Carrier: I predict Evangelicals and Catholics (and Mormons and Baptists and everyone else) will not be able to arrest the current trend in younger generations toward liberal non-denominationalism and the abandonment of the entire church-sermon model that Christianity has maintained so far.
Interview with Richard Carrier
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One handed out anti - Mormon pamphlets; another held up a pair of flip - flops.
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I imagined some guy in the back of a white van bobbing is gun around in frustration cursing those damn mormons and their matrix-like bullet dodging abilities.
How the DC snipers hacked an ex-police car to make a killing machine - Boing Boing
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Mormons don't, and thus will as easily fit in among teetotalling Muslims.
Ellis Weiner: A Daring Solution to the Middle East Dilemma
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Some groups, views, such as the Mormons, JWs and unitarians (small u.), hold different views about what the "godhood" of Jesus is exactly, and therefore what "fully God" would mean.
Blind Faith?
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Turned off by the airport, took Mormon Mesa Rd. across, then turned left onto, uh, Double Negative Way, just before the cattle guard.
Greg.org: the making of
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November 13th, 2007 at 3: 43 pm chodin says: will and jada are like donny and marie osmond … only a lot more mormon-y.
I HATE WILL AND JADA PINKETT SMITH
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The Evolution of "Mormon": When do you use the term Mormon, and when the Church's name
Times & Seasons, An Onymous Mormon Blog
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| Reply | Permalink this supposed asshat aka mormon mit .. or as i like to say, moron mit is a joke
Romney: Theories About Me Polling Myself Are Like 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
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Clara's mother, like Saxon's, had crossed the Plains with ox-teams, and, like Saxon's, had wintered in Salt Intake City -- in fact, had, with her sisters, opened the first Gentile school in that Mormon stronghold.
CHAPTER XI
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These secular conditions, Bushman suggests, can be understood in two ways: for nonbelievers they help to explain Mormonism's "origins," a word Bushman eschews for the more neutral "beginnings"; for Mormons they can be studied as divinely contrived preparations for the dawning of a new era.
Secrets of the Mormons
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So global warming is just a natural occurrence when you believe all the hogwash in the Christian Bible or hell, in the Book of the Moron Mormons, or hell, in the Koran...you name one of those holy books, they all say the same thing: the world will end one day because it will burn up, as George Gamov explained in his book The Death of the Sun, because right before the Sun goes dark, it expands to a tremendous heat, so hot it finallys blows to all Hell and the heat emitted by the blow up will certainly "scorch" the earth, as predicted by the Christian bible--you even heard of "the scorched earth" policy?
This World Is NOW HELL
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The numbers of Mormon missionaries and converts will double in the next fifteen years.
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These results can also illuminate why, in Chapter 14, we saw that some religious groups are viewed unfavorably, specifically Muslims, Buddhists, and Mormons.
American Grace
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The Polyglot Book of Mormon allows you see side-by-side passages for English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.
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A friend recently pointed out that his confusing French policy with a scifi retelling of Mormon mythology could somehow stem from the weird Francophobia evinced in his "leaked" strategy playbook, wherein his advisers appeared to lay out "anti-France" as a kind of global campaign theme:
Romney, Self-Hating Mormon? - Swampland - TIME.com
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This step-by-step guide explains one version of the process, which involves combing neighborhoods for cults (such as Mormon temples and Unitarian churches), porn stores, establishments "owned and/or operated by the homosexual community," and "abortuaries.
Daniel Radosh: Casting Out Demons in Colorado Springs
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Therefore, to church members the Book of Mormon is not fiction, not pseudepigrapha, not literary embellishment, not a parable or an allegory, but a book about real people who lived in ancient times.
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But an anti-Mormon mob killed him that year, creating a martyr to the new faith.
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While the Saints built their first temple, neighbors made life miserable and the Mormons neared bankruptcy.
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Mormons and schools all Americans on the unconstitutional craze of doling out civil rights by popular vote: Hark! From sea to rising sea, crafty Christians are busy putting the "tut" -- and "con" -- back in "Constitution"!
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Brigham Young University has yanked the diploma of a man who created a calendar featuring shirtless Mormon missionaries and was later excommunicated from the church.
Ex-Mormon calendar-maker has BYU diploma yanked
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One online guide to “spiritual mapping” suggests looking for cults such as Mormon temples and Unitarian churches, gay bars, and “abortuaries.”
Rapture Ready!
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When Larson, a Mormon, started working at Remuda Ranch, she was singled out for her beliefs.
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Mormons believe the angel handed Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism , golden tablets.
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Mormons may be low-tax Republicans, but those in good standing tithe a very large proportion of their income obligately in their private life (10\% from what I recall), while the church runs itself like a corporation which has economies of scale.
Gene Expression
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In the meantime, some Mormon, Christian and Muslim advocates of plural marriage are themselves opposed to same-sex marriage, and accuse us gays of trying to "redefine" marriage.
Patricia Nell Warren: Marriage, Polygamy and Gays
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Though historically such apoliticism has been definitive of modern Mormons’ worship experience, a departure from this norm occurred during the 2008 election season, when the First Presidency of the Church issued a statement to be read by bishops over the pulpit in California wards.
American Grace
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No one knows how many fundamentalist Mormons live like the Browns; scholars estimate between 30,000 and 50,000 people live in plural marriages, mainly in Utah and other Rocky Mountain states.
'Sister Wives' Features A Lot Of Wives But Little Faith
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Jodi's mom, "corky" is so proud, never did convert me but I did accquire the appreciation they have for food and fun with the family - Should the tough times come, our mormon friends and family can help get us through, those well stocked pantrys can be a good thing!
Latter-day fixin's!
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On the one hand, Mormonism was partially democratized in that virtually every adult male could be ordained a priest.
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Yet it was precisely conservatives such as the Mormons who had blazed paths to the voting booths fifty years before.
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Yet it was precisely conservatives such as the Mormons who had blazed paths to the voting booths fifty years before.
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Mormonism, as a relative newcomer on the religious scene and an ambitiously proselytizing faith, is not ethnically rooted.
American Grace
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(diglot) Book of Mormon would really have come in handy.
Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon
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For that reason, he's a full cut above the average rumormonger hereabouts.
SHADOW OF A DARK QUEEN: BOOK ONE OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
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I have my theological beefs with Mormonism, of course, but my experience is that people with some approximation of traditional religious faith have discovered that we have much more in common with one another than we do with the militant secularists, which is why evangelicals, Catholics, religious Jews, and the last of the remaining old-line Protestants have found so many opportunities for cooperation.
LOSING OUR RELIGION
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Relevant also is the fact that Mormonism and evangelicalism are both proselytizing faiths, and thus are often in head-to-head competition for converts.12
American Grace
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That he is a Mormon, a professor, and a paterfamilias adds spice to his mischief.
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To the south-west is the Mormond hill, which shelters Strichen from the icy winds coming off the North Sea.
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Another reason for commending the book is that it represents the first major response by competent Christian scholars to the new challenge of more scholarly Mormon apologetics.
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I read actual books see ... and if I weren't an independant thinker, I'd likely still be a motherfriekin 'mormon (may their "temples" burn, may they loose their tax status and be dunned for many decades of back taxes ... that would pay off the deficit!)
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
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Madison took off and the rest of the Mormon men went on missions.
GRACED LAND
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It's like doing the hora with Mormons, but without any sense of danger.
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One of my best friends in grad school was a Mormon, too.
Garett the Gracious, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Most scholars, however, would probably regard the inclusion of Mormon works on this page (The Book of Mormon, The Pearl of Great Price, and The Doctrine and Covenants) as malapropos.
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Later the Chinese made the westward journey of Mormon converts infinitely more convenient by building the transcontinental railway.
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How did the Book of Mormon language evolve so rapidly into non - related Indian languages?
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On the one hand, Mormonism was partially democratized in that virtually every adult male could be ordained a priest.
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Back in real life, she is close to It-girl – turned – premium-cable-Mormon Chloë Sevigny, with whom she recently attended the reopening party for the Fountainebleau Hotel in Miami.
The New Little Miss Missbehave
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Yet according to Mormon doctrine, families are awarded with empyreal togetherness only if every member ‘behaves.’
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But except for the four lapsed Mormons who attended, they stood alone.
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Sandy, Sam and Westlake ramparted Mormon from enthusiastic admirers and pushed down to the creek where he washed his hurts with the stinging icy water and stiffly put on his clothes.
Rimrock Trail
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The Law of Consecration is not some obscure Mormon doctrine.
Think Progress » Church Uses Marquee To Speak Out Against Beck: ‘Sorry Mr Beck, Jesus Preached Social Justice’
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If the Book of Mormon took place outside of Mesoamerica (like in New York where the Hill Cumorah supposedly is), why are written languages of ancient America only found in Mesoamerica?
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So the wagon train reformed and the Mormons surrounded them and they started off, then the order was given and the Mormons opened fire and slaughtered every man first, and then set about murdering every woman and child.
2010 March 04 « The BookBanter Blog
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In 1979, feminist Sonia Johnson was formally excommunicated by the Mormon Church because of her outspoken support for the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.
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Aside from the many Christian movements from England and Europe that re-established themselves early in the nation's history, a few religious sects arose independently in the United States, including Mormons and Shakers.
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Mormon teaching is strongly adventist; the movement has no professional clergy, self-help is emphasized, and tithing and missionary work are required of its members.
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Thus, as we have noted, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a practicing Mormon, had to quell concerns about his religion during his presidential bid in 2008.
American Grace
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The snow over the desert clarified both the colors and the forms of its plants - Mormon tea, sotol, lechuguilla, leatherstem, acacias - and the hard frost retained the tracks of javelina.
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The years spent in Missouri were one of the bitterest chapters in Mormon history.
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On the one hand, Mormonism was partially democratized in that virtually every adult male could be ordained a priest.
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As she put names to the species around us - lovely names, like pickleweed and coyote melon, Mormon tea and mallow - I imagined them frizzling to extinction on the hillside, leaving a last few, spiny xerophytes to subsist on bare shale.
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I read AlterNet because I live in Utah -- the 'reddest' state in the Union [and -- surprise, surprise -- I happen to also be a practicing Mormon.]
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In the last weeks of the campaign, at Rick Warrens bigotfest in Orange County and on MTV Obama loudly trumped the battle cry that would galvanize the mormon, catholic and evangelical vote, empowering their bigotry with 'gawd's in the mix', saying that even gawd was against same sex marriage.
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Let me explain by first saying I am not a Mormon, nor am I particularly spiritual, having been born into a family of Sunday-football-watching, nonpracticing Lutherans.
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Baha'i and Mormon missionaries have attracted local followings.
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From the Boston Globe: As the Vietnam War raged in the 1960s, Mitt Romney received a deferment from the draft as a Mormon "minister of religion" for the duration of his missionary work in France, which lasted two and a half years.
Mr. Romney Deferred
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If you are interested in genealogical/family history work, the LDS Church (Mormon Church) has some great resources.
FamilySearch Beta Finds Historical Records On Your Family | Lifehacker Australia
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Old patterns of guardedness and social insularity still remain within Mormon culture.
Joanna Brooks: Still Uncertain About Mormonism After 180 Years
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Sure, each member of my family has one, but they're all anal-expulsive dramatic types who learned from early Mormon upbringings the importance of putting on a good show.
J'accuse, et challenge!
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As a person who spent some years in the Mormon church I think the elaboration is important.
Balkinization
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Utah was settled in 1847 by Mormon pioneers seeking to establish a theocratic kingdom of God in the desert.
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Stack writes that when two Mormons have their wedding "sealed" for eternity in the temple, Monson said, that unsealing or canceling this "is the saddest and most discouraging responsibility I have.
Prophet to Mormon men: Put a ring on it
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I wouldn't have a problem with a nude Adam and Eve in a Mormon meetinghouse, but I can't see it happening, artist Lee Bennion said from her studio in Spring City, Utah.
Should religious art require a fig leaf?
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Mormonism's believability problem is that its fantastical events are too recent. paisley henosis, I'm going to disagree slightly with the concept of creating a Xenu: On Ice performance.
Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
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The early Mormons practised polygamy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most contemporary Mormons oppose same-sex marriage, and they're also committed to monogamy.
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Don’t apply the term Mormon in reference to any polygamous groups or other splinter organization.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage
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Romney's support was magnified by the large Mormon population in Nevada who turned out in large numbers to support their co-religionist.
Nevada caucuses: Mitt Romney cruises to easy victory
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Maybe even oh please, oh please sexually deviant or deliciously filthy in the eyes of a panicky, manic depressive Christian God, something that would make priests swoon, Mormons moan and more than a few Republican senators run off to the bathhouse for a hot sweat and a rubdown?
Mark Morford: Hello, Sinner! What Are You Guilty of Today?
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And I am especially disappointed that they feel such an urgent need to attack writers, like me, who present balanced, carefully researched accounts of Mormon history that happen to diverge from the official, highly expurgated church version.
Jon Krakauer Responds to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints' Official Response To 'Under The Banner of Heaven'
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Mormons are strongly taught that they have a religious obligation to trace their own genealogies and perform temple ordinances for their ancestors.
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Romney's vote was magnified by the large Mormon population in Nevada who turned out in large numbers to support their co-religionist.
Nevada caucuses: Mitt Romney cruises to easy victory
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As in every Mormon ward, missionaries provide a gamut of services for members, whether active or lapsed.
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The hottest ticket on Broadway right now is likely "The Book of Mormon, " the debut Broadway musical from the creators of "South Park, " Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
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It was held at a nearby Mormon church, and the burial was at a small suburban cemetery called Elysian Fields.
Richard Paul Evans Ebook Christmas Set
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Bitterbrush, sagebrush, and rabbitbrush predominate in a mosaic where patches of blackbrush and mormon tea are common.
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Mormon crickets are of economic importance because of their impact on rangeland, pasture, alfalfa, row crops, and vegetable gardens.
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To Joseph Smith, on a farm in Palmyra, New York; news of the Book of Mormon, revealed to him by an angel.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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The early Mormons practised polygamy.
Times, Sunday Times
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the former Mormon practice of polygamy
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The others on the masthead are a curious of mixture of Mormons and non-Mormons.
Planet Atheism
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Miranda's caravan started an hour later, she driving, Mormon and Sam in the back, each dressed in his best, minus chaparejos and spurs, but otherwise most typically the cowboy and therefore out of place -- and feeling it -- as they sat stiffly in the leatherette-lined tonneau.
Rimrock Trail
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As for Mormons, they’re kind of clannish but are quite educated and are rapidly opening up to the rest of society — I expect one of them to be next if a Southern baptist doesn’t make it in.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?
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With his wife and child, he had ridden seventy-five miles up the valley to meet the Mormon party near the head of Lemhi River.
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In so doing, she literally connected discourses on Victorian manners and Mormon theology.
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It was the inevitable tendency of Mormonism, like every other religious delusion, from the advent of John of Leyden to that of the Spiritualists, to disturb the natural relation of the sexes under the Christian dispensation.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859
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Glennda the Beckerhead can say these things because in his back pocket he has the receipt from the loaves and fishes miracle showing Jesus charged a fair market price for the produce and made a tidy little profit, and because those missions the mormons run to age their football players are not about helping the less fortunate but about proselytizing and adding converts.
Think Progress » Conservative Catholic League President Bill Donohue Defends Beck: Many Of His Critics Are ‘Phonies’
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America's Best Christian, Mrs. Betty Bowers, calls out Mormons and schools all Americans on the unconstitutional craze of doling out civil rights by popular vote: Hark! From sea to rising sea, crafty Christians are busy putting the "tut" -- and "con" -- back in
WN.com - Business News
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Like a lot of expat Mormon men, and I hate to admit it, I kind of idolize Mormon athletes.
By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog
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But he is also pretty clear in this speech that he does not intend to sort of uncloak the mysteries of Mormonism.
CNN Transcript Dec 6, 2007
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On this day in 1838, in order to avoid anti-Mormon persecution, Latter Day Saint movement founder Joseph Smith, Jr. and his followers fled Kirtland, Ohio for Far West, Missouri.
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A study with more than 40000 data points notes that IQ cycles with .27 to .87 heritability people could use this cycle to time when they had children to prevent hereditary diseases as well as reinforce beneficial traits chemical control of the cycle could prevent much hereditary disease as well assure high genetic benefits If the cycle applies to nonhuman organisms as well Much higher yielding food plants as well as a basic revision of evolutionary theory are possible Create new genetic choices with heritability cycle I am a quaker I think that LDS Mormons like geneology research With heritability timing they could prestructure their future generations The Data is measured from a graph from Aurthur Jensen G factor That graph is from the paper Sundet JM, Tambs, K.,
WN.com - Financial News
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I totally forgot it was el cinco de mayo... and I've already started my very american and very mormon chicken/broc casserole for dinner.
Flan Bueno
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Eventually, Smith reported, he was led by an angel called Moroni, whose figure now appears atop Mormon temples, to a place in upper New York state, where he would find tablets of gold.
A Mormon Moment
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Ironic, the Mormon is the only major R candidate with only one wife.
Sound Politics: Re: Giuliani is looking interesting
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Huckabee is a jackleg preacher turned politician and doesn't like Romney because he's Mormon.
Huckabee takes aim at 'Romneycare'
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I've always been technophilic to a fault, but at some point, my lapsed Mormon survivalism kicks in and demands that we have our phone, internet and television on a separate wire.
I'm nothing without my wifi bluetooth sunglass viewer dock
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My seatmate was a 20-year-old Mormon missionary on his way home from his two-year mission in Guatemala.
UUpdates - All updates
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At Christian homeschooler Robin Sampson's Heart of Wisdom blog, she writes:At Brigham Young University, Mormons offers a series of elaborate 'traditional Seders, starting last weekend.
Christian Passover Seders: Rip-off or religious respect?
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Can they unite the base since the base seems to be nothing but extreme right wing Limbaugh loving zealots and the religious lot that still think being a Mormon is a cult?
Romney pushes back at Huckabee critique, takes aim at Obama
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To add an autobiographical complexity: I was raised in a devout Mormon family in Utah but experienced a "deconversion" of sorts in 1989 when I was an Ezra Taft Benson Scholar at Brigham Young University.
Philocrites: Who is Philocrites?
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Only in heartland states such as Utah and Idaho-the intermountain bastions of his adopted Mormon faith-would the godless invaders encounter meaningful resistance.
Glenn Beck Comes to Harlem «
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DrHunt … not to distract from your funfest here but back to your claims that Mormons are not socialists.
Think Progress » Church Uses Marquee To Speak Out Against Beck: ‘Sorry Mr Beck, Jesus Preached Social Justice’
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And she comes at it from the inside, as a tenth-generation Mormon whose great-great grandfather, Heber Orson Maxwell O'Donovan, migrated to Utah, across the plains as a Mormon pioneer in 1847 with none other than Brigham Young himself, the second prophet, seer, and revelator of the Mormon Church.
Mike Bonifer: Sister Dottie vs. The Mormon Church
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The Mormons when they send missionaries to try to convert people will tell people to do "the Moroni Test" wherein you read the Book of Mormon (or attempt to do so, Mark Twain called it "cloroform in print") and then pray about it, whence apon, so they say a still small voice will assure you as to the B of M's veracity.
Friendly religious questions for Christians and other monotheists
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints argued in numerous court filings that rebaptized members were given a “clean slate” through the exercise of the Mormon faith, and to allow a legal examination of actions prior to rebaptism was a violation of the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.
The Sins of Brother Curtis
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Anyone not knowing the power of my cousins and the other 2.7 million residents of the Beehive State need only look at California's disastrous Prop 8 outcome to see how Mormons can mobilize when needed.
When you're a jet you're a jet all the way
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The hour-plus finale thankfully shucked much of the grotesque Utah-Mormon-Gothic melodrama murderously mad prophet Alby was taken care of last week, shot down but not killed when he tried to storm the statehouse with the Henricksons inside and stressed the themes of an unorthodox family and marriage unit fighting for acceptance and survival in a judgmental and often violently unforgiving world.
Roush Review: Big Love Finale
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The decision came a month before the start of the Winter Olympics in Utah and can be expected to put the spotlight on plural marriages that once thrived among Mormon pioneers who settled here.
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Hey, I guess the free market of ideas just doesn't choose moronism, I mean, Mormonism.
Huckabee Rockets Ahead In Newsweek Iowa Poll, Dem Race Close
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It would be a violation of the Mormon faith to consider his history of molesting children prior to rebaptism in any decision to call him to a position within the church.
The Sins of Brother Curtis
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Later, one Jethro Simsby, a Mormon deserter, set up his rod and staff on the banks of the creek, home-steaded a quarter-section of the sage-brush plain, and in due time came to be known as the Dry Creek cattle king.
The Grafters
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Bob:They were in a mysterious language. Joseph Smith translated those tablets into The Book of Mormon in 1830.
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The Mormon Church wouldn't admit African-Americans to deaconhood.
CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2007
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is popularly known as the Mormon Church.
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This extensive collection, all on microfilm is a copy of the detailed compilation of all such records in the country which was carried out by the Mormons in Ireland in the 1950's.
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The church also places special emphasis on converting the dead: because of their belief that families are eternal, Mormons feel a duty to posthumously baptise ancestors so that all may be together in heaven.
Mitt Romney leads the charge as Mormonism moves into the American mainstream
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Postscript (3: 06 p.m.): I only just the minute learned that Stephenie Meyer is a Mormon.
Howard Hughes and π
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The Mormon church is a private entity, and its wealth is a well-guarded secret.
The Sins of Brother Curtis
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Mormons who have been excommunicated, as Frank Curtis had been, may work through a period of repentance that ultimately leads to rebaptism and, once again, a clean slate.
The Sins of Brother Curtis
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Yet it was precisely conservatives such as the Mormons who had blazed paths to the voting booths fifty years before.
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Now Mormons should be ashame of Glenn Beck representing them.
Think Progress » 1967 Flashback: ‘Gov. Romney Would Quit Church For Social Justice’
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Mormon Utah renounced polygamy 111 years ago; It's simply hidden.
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He was a Mormon missionary in Taiwan, where he learned to speak mandarin Chinese fluently, and he served briefly as ambassador to Singapore.
Envoy's Challenges in China
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Even during the period of its greatest political autonomy, Mormonism constituted only a partial or semi-Asiatic society.
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Juniper, pinion, greasewood, Mormon tea, and scrubby brush grow sparingly on the rocky terrain.
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I say something about Mormons and she nods emphatically.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anyone who fololows Rush or Beck is either delusionary, a shill, another dang mormon or someone gullible to take their bait.
Rush ...Glen ....Sarah next?
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An ad saying “Drink Budweiser” with scantily clad ladies is likely also be just as offensive to some Muslims (and Mormons and Southern Baptists).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Anti-Islam Bus Ads in Miami
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Such obedience included acceptance of the Mormon faith through baptism, living a moral and godly life, and the completion of certain ceremonies and ordinances in the temple.
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As their name implies, Mormon metalmarks are mostly a species of the Great Basin, and do not occur across most of the Pacific Northwest.
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Mormon leaders
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Hayduke joins forces with...feminist saboteur and Bronx exile Bonnie Abzug, wilderness guide and outcast Mormon Seldom Seen Smith, and libertarian billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, M.D.
Filmstalker: Stalked: Monkey Wrench Gang and Arthur Ashe
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Whereas before I spent most of my days trying to escape the unmerciful teasing and mistreatment by the Mormon children and the weirdoes in my own family by reading Torah all day, I now began spending all of my days escaping the same things by reading about the occult interpretations of the Torah.
Roseanne Archy
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By the time I graduated college I'd figured out that I wasn't the typical marriageable Mormon woman.
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I have nice friends who are morman but with allthe trouble the mormons have had mitt will not be elected imike steele for prez the dem will love you
Romney wins presidential straw poll by a single vote
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On the one hand, Mormonism was partially democratized in that virtually every adult male could be ordained a priest.
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Even during the period of its greatest political autonomy, Mormonism constituted only a partial or semi-Asiatic society.
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Genealogy is very important in the Mormon religion, mostly because of the Mormon belief in what is known as baptism for the dead.
The Sins of Brother Curtis
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LNN: Perhaps this questions is best asked off the record, and I don't want to sound too disparaging if any tender sensibilities are on the line, but I can't help but recognize the title image from your "Northern Lights" release is a mutation from a popular Mormon painting depicting the arrival of an extra terrestrial being from the planet Kolob to the American continent.
LNN interviews Casey Rae-Hunter on his new album : The Lovecraft News Network
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I was raised a strict Mormon; alcohol, smoking, going to bars, carousing, etc. were against the rules of the religion.
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However, I was spared the trouble, for soon the children retired and the conversation drifted around to Mormonism and polygamy; and our hostess seemed to want to talk, so I just listened, for Mrs. O'Shaughnessy rather likes to "argufy"; but she had no argument that night, only her questions started our hostess's story.
Letters of a Woman Homesteader
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The term Mormon is a nickname for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, derived from the title of our primary religious text, the Book of Mormon.
Katie Hawkes: Why There Are Mormons On Your Billboards
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Born and raised Mormon, he comes to all his shows dressed as a missionary.
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Mormons are masters of proselytizing--the increase in numbers "shows that a church group can produce a short-term phenomenal growth rate by committing resources to missionary activity," according to Professor James W. Dow in his 2003 scholarly paper "The Growth of Protestant Religions In Mexico and Central America.
Gustavo Arellano: ¡ASK A MEXICAN!: Special Mormon Edition
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Heck, even though the Community of Christ doesn’t use the term Mormon to describe themselves, I’d consider them Mormon.
The Top Five Reasons Why I’m Not Turning in a Letter of Resignation to the Church. | Mind on Fire
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But some think the story of a drowning marsh and a heart-warmingly functional Mormon family is too tame.
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But when asked to review Brigham City, an independent feature film by and about Mormons, I could only approach the task with guarded curiosity.
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Actually, most strains of Mormonism to this day believe in plural marriage.
Matthew Yglesias » Beck vs Social Justice
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We suggest instead that Mormons cohere because they are a religious group that resembles an ethnicity—one based on belief, not blood.
American Grace
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Yet only two major denominations in America - Christian Science and Mormonism - are of native development.
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The emergence of a more fully developed Asiatic society among the Mormons had to await their exodus to the Intermountain West.
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It was little wonder, given that she worked alongside a highly devout woman in a store stocked from floor to ceiling with Mormon literature.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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I have it on the authority of a Mormon ecclesiast, who was in the political confidence of the
Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft
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The Mormon Church considers abortion a grievous sin.
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Mormons don't use the term "infallibility" to refer to their leaders and readily acknowledge that they are imperfect men.
Mormon president can do no wrong to religion's members
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He encouraged the Mormons to be self-sufficient and created an independent commonwealth.
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Christopher Bigelow, a devout Mormon bored by the bloodlessness of mainstream Mormon culture, created the Sugar Beet, a website of Mormon satire modeled on The Onion, then started Zarahemla Books, a publisher of edgy Mormon literature.
Holly Welker: Latter-Day Saints and Modern-Day Pioneers
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Longtime Beck-watchers said he has always made references to his faith journey, his conversion from Catholicism to Mormonism, his crediting God with saving him from drug and alcohol abuse, professional obscurity and "friendlessness.
Glenn Beck may be unlikely leader for conservative Christians
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First, Mormons often assumed that the social meaning of material goods would both emerge from and be mediated by the local community.
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Dog cloner suspected to be kidnapper of Mormon missionary sex slave in 1978
Boing Boing
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In Utah, the Mormons had to survive in a harsh desert climate.
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To the south-west is the Mormond hill, which shelters Strichen from the icy winds coming off the North Sea.
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Not trying to rip on Mormons, but his hypocrisy is astounding. gcs wrote on November 27, 2007 5: 27 PM:
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Romney Denies He Said Putting Muslim In Cabinet Isn't Justified
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But Mormon use of advanced methods to net large hauls of fish for pickling and shipment elsewhere had impoverished the Utes and made them resentful and ready for war.
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The mainstream Mormon church has disavowed it.
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For the fractious Tea Party movement," Wilentz writes, "Beck -- a former drive-time radio jockey, a recovering alcoholic, and a Mormon convert -- has emerged as both a unifying figure and an intellectual guide.
Megan Doherty: My Walk With Glenn Beck, 21st Century Con Man
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The Mormons had come as part of a great upsurge in proselyting to American Indians, known under doctrines of the faith as the ‘Lamanites.’
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As a new religious tradition, Mormonism would not be Christian.
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These books, too, he thought, as he dug through the shelves in the Mormon Book Store.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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The intervening time has seen a remarkable amount of rumormongering, jingoism, blind adherence to rumor, and armchair patriotism.
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Being industrious and hardworking is highly prized in Mormon culture the beehive is a symbol of the church, and for devout women, cooking provides a real sense of identity and daily purpose.
The Seattle Times
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And at no point have I heard that the symphonic tunes of a mellow saxophone are particularly associated with the Mormon kingdom.
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In the National Intelligencer, published in Washington, D.C., from 1800 to 1867, Smith found reports claiming the Mormon people were setting the laws of the land "at naught" and organizing "banditti" to defend themselves.
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A living Mormon stands in as proxy for a deceased person, as water baptism by immersion is vicariously performed.
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I thought Mormon tea parties were forbidden by the Word of Wisdom (D&C 89: 9). sb
Wednesday Night Links « Gerry Canavan
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Many researchers have thought that Mormon crickets - and possibly grasshoppers - behave like their cousins, migratory locusts.
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At the most practical level, the railroad ameliorated some of the consequences of Mormondom's geographical isolation by lowering shipping costs while raising freighting capacities.
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Catholics, Jews, and Mormons are all demarcated clearly—you know if you are one, and you know if someone else is one.
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