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Category Archives: Mormon Temple
Christian Thoughts about the Temple
“Now the chief priests and the whole Council were seeking false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death, but they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. At last two came forward and said, “This man … Continue reading
HBO’s Mormon Temple Ceremony Scene
See here. The “15 minutes are up” bit after the end is inaccurate. There are other minor inaccuracies, like the color of the altar cloth. The music attempts to make the scene feel beautiful, but I doubt that will mitigate … Continue reading
Would a secret ceremony that depicted Mormon bishops as hirelings of Satan be sacred too?
A Mormon left this comment on the Secrets of the Mormon Temples video a few days ago, It saddens me that some have so little respect for what is sacred to others. Watching movies like this one literally destroy the … Continue reading
“Mormon victims of the Holocaust”
The LDS Church is in trouble – again – with the Jewish community over the Church’s continuing posthumous baptisms of Jewish Holocaust victims. (See here and here for background on the 13 year struggle regarding this issue.) Monday (November 10, … Continue reading
The Duty to Expose a Shameful Ceremony is Infinitely More Sacred Than a Shameful Ceremony
This movie requires Flash Player 9 swfobject.embedSWF(“http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=948605920993957621&hl=en&fs=true”, “swf45b01″, “400″, “326″, “9.0.0″, “”, {}, {wmode: “window”, menu: “false”, quality: “high”, bgcolor: “#FFFFFF”}, {}); Richard Packham‘s video is also available on YouTube Publicly exposing the Mormon temple ceremony takes away the superficial … Continue reading
Catholic Parish Registers Off-Limits to LDS Church
Catholic News Service (CNS) reported last week on an April 2008 Vatican directive sent to Catholic dioceses throughout the world. In the letter, Catholic bishops are instructed to prohibit Latter-day Saints from microfilming and digitizing information contained in parish registers. … Continue reading
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Can you guess where this is from? (Updated)
We asked folks to guess what this is and where exactly it is from, offering a free DVD copy of The Gospel of John to the first non-evangelical who guessed correctly. After two days of waiting for people to guess, … Continue reading
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LDS Temples Open to All
On August 8th ABC’s Nightline posted a story about the Hill Cumorah Pageant, a Mormon drama enacted each year by LDS Church members for audiences in Palmyra, New York. The sub-title to the Nightline article reads, “In Upstate New York, … Continue reading
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PostMormon.org Billboard Squelched
In April Mormon Coffee reported on a billboard campaign instituted in LDS areas by PostMormon.org, a group of former Mormons seeking to offer support to others who have left the LDS Church. Last Friday (22 June) the Idaho Falls’ Post … Continue reading
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Temple-Appropriateness
A friend from the Las Vegas area sent me a copy of a local publication, Desert Saints Magazine. According to the “Letter from the Editor” in the March 2007 issue, “This magazine is produced by three stay-at-home LDS mothers (with … Continue reading