Post by Prince Myshkin on Apr 15, 2024 19:20:41 GMT
merh, I didn't know you're Mormon. I have Mormon family and converted in my youth. I left the church but I still believe they have the best most airtight theology of any Christian sect.
I think Simpson believed he was justified in his murders because his wife committed adultery and Goldman was the man she slept with. The Old Testament does warrant the death penalty for adulteresses. Bottom line, OJ died with a clear conscious. He never believed he did anything wrong.
Brought up in the church but now more of a deist. I think God would care more about how one treats one's fellow man than which faith one prays through.
I do think the Mormon theology is better. The whole "I was saved xx/xx/xxxx so nothing I do can damn me" or the whole catholic sin knowing one can just confess & it's OK seem wonky.
I thought everyone knew I was the board Mormon.
Born in San Bernardino.
The stakehouse had a display of the fort the Mormons built.
A young Mexican scout named Rafael Rivera is credited as the first non-Native American to encounter the valley, in 1829. Trader Antonio Armijo led a 60-man party along the Spanish Trail to Los Angeles, California, in 1829. In 1844, John C. Frémont arrived, and his writings helped lure pioneers to the area. Downtown Las Vegas's Fremont Street is named after him.
Eleven years later, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints chose Las Vegas as the site to build a fort halfway between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, where they would travel to gather supplies. The fort was abandoned several years afterward. The remainder of this Old Mormon Fort can still be seen at the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard and Washington Avenue.
Eleven years later, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints chose Las Vegas as the site to build a fort halfway between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, where they would travel to gather supplies. The fort was abandoned several years afterward. The remainder of this Old Mormon Fort can still be seen at the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard and Washington Avenue.
The first Anglo-American colony was established by pioneers associated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Following the Mormon colonists' purchase of Rancho San Bernardino, and the establishment of the town of San Bernardino in 1851, San Bernardino County was formed in 1853 from parts of Los Angeles County. Mormons laid out the town based on the "City of Zion" plan which was typical of Mormon urban planning. Mormon colonists developed irrigated, commercial farming and lumbering, supplying agricultural produce and lumber throughout Southern California.
The Mormon Battalion was the only religious unit in United States military history in federal service, recruited solely from one religious body and having a religious title as the unit designation. The volunteers served from July 1846 to July 1847 during the Mexican–American War of 1846–1848. The battalion was a volunteer unit of between 534 and 559 Latter-day Saint men, led by Mormon company officers commanded by regular U.S. Army officers. During its service, the battalion made a grueling march of nearly 1,950 miles from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to San Diego, California.
Lived in Utah (Orem) for 7 years as a teen. Dad was from Ephraim. His great-somethingback grandfather joined the church in Denmark & came across in 1850, part of the handcart bunch. Brigham Young sent him & his brother down to settle San Pete County with other Danes. Someone was married to Young so I'm related by marriage or some such to Brigham Young.
Who was a jerk it seems.
Probably most of the stuff about blacks holding the priesthood was him.
On mom's side, a neighbor in Florida asked if they could take the kids to church. Grandma asked which church? Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints so grandma was OK with it. By the time she figured out it was the Mormons, she was hooked.
So I don't feel OJ had the right to kill his ex.
One thing I got out of Mormons is we all get to go to hell our own way. The whole Lucifer's plan that humans would have no free will so they couldn't stray vs Jesus's plan that we had free will to choose.
I do believe OJ figured he could get away with it because he felt his fame would save him from prison.
What I like about Mormonism is that it explains existence as an eternal progression. I mean everyone, if they play their cards right, can become a god. And I never saw that as being a little tin god with the power of life and death. I liked the idea of ultimate creativity. Quite frankly, I'd love to create my own planets!
And as you said, the idea that Lucifer wanted predestination and Christ wanted free will explains so much why we have such evil in the world. But free will was necessary.
Really, I find few holes in Mormon theology. But I just don't have the faith to believe what cannot be proven.
Do you think Joseph Smith was a charlatan? Or do you think he did obtain some type of revelation?