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Oh...I have no current complaints. I only claim RIGHT to be able to complain....hashtag ...#allModsAreBulliesWithBadges!

That should take care of the mods. Okay, @The Folk Prophet, let's hear your mod complaints.

Notice that the answer to "How is it done?" is not a lesson in the details of divine spiritual mechanics. Nothing like "if one who is innocent willingly accepts the natural consequence of blah blah blah" here, just an immediate reference to the blood of Christ—literally, HOW one accesses forgiveness. Like someone asking, "How do I get to the 104th floor of this skyscraper?", and the respondent not launching into a lecture about stairs and incremental rises against gravity or counterweights and electric motors, but rather just pointing the guy toward the elevator door.

That should take care of the mods. Okay, @The Folk Prophet, let's hear your mod complaints.

Happy St. David's Day!
The daddodils are coming into bloom too!

That should take care of the mods. Okay, @The Folk Prophet, let's hear your mod complaints.

Amazing.  Whenever I need to feel a little hope for the human race, I go look at what SpaceX's latest milestone.

Looks like @Jamie123 only reads General Discussion. We should go to the other forums and talk about him. He'll never know.

They successfully launched the Super Heavy vehicle to orbital speeds this morning. This is the largest object ever launched by humanity. History was made on SpaceX's 22 birthday, and it is pie day. Well done Elon.
https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-third-test-flight-launch

So @Jamie123's wearing an owl mask these days. Anyone want to mock him for it? Maybe we could get some owl pellets if we ask nicely.
I'd wear a bunny mask, but I'm afraid of raptors.

Looks like @Jamie123 only reads General Discussion. We should go to the other forums and talk about him. He'll never know.

Here's the most recent public posting before yours, posted less than an hour ago.

Looks like @Jamie123 only reads General Discussion. We should go to the other forums and talk about him. He'll never know.

Looks like @Jamie123 only reads General Discussion. We should go to the other forums and talk about him. He'll never know.

Not being a Mormon, General Discussion is my usual go-to, since Current Affairs is mostly about America (though I do check it out sometimes). I do check out the other forums though, so if you make fun of my Owl costume there, I'll cry! 😭

Looks like @Jamie123 only reads General Discussion. We should go to the other forums and talk about him. He'll never know.

I was talking about the General Discussion forum - not the site as a whole.

It's not about gaining power and glory to yourself. It's a family thing.

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3. It's always a bit odd to me to have a lay member state they're not sure how comfortable they are with something the church did as if the church is not led by God.

Any talk of personal responsibility for embracing one's salvation is dismissed by many as "earning your way to heaven", and asserting that sin is real and that it separates us from God is characterized as denying the pure love of Christ. All manner of false doctrine exist. We cannot blame individuals for the existence of Satan's lies. But it is clear that at least some actively embrace the victimized "not my fault" mentality, eschewing all accountability for their actions. They will find to their dismay that their Creator will indeed require an accounting at their hand, despite their protestations.

It's my observation that people who don't keep their covenants often think it's "mean and drives people from the church" when you talk about keeping your covenants.

No, he was not, not in any sense in which that word is used in American political discourse today.
That is not a feature of today's American liberalism, unless you're saying that Jesus would call for the freedom to destroy your unborn baby if you feel it might inconvenience you. Pretty sure you're not saying that.
Certainly not any sort of feature in modern American "liberalism".
This is simply false. We as Latter-day Saints are familiar with this general idea. It's an application of the law of consecration; early latter-day efforts were generally called "united orders", were entered into only by covenant, were always voluntary, could be left at any time, and were administered in all cases by leaders called of God and not by agents of profane governments. To compare such small, private, religiously motivated efforts to "a type of socialism" is way beyond the mark.
I think it's worth noting that even with divine guidance, the early covenant Saints failed to get those societies to work as they were intended, until the effort was ultimately abandoned.
As he has always done. Note that he did not call for Rome to care for the sick or for the nominal Jewish king Herod "to feed the poor and care for the sick so that none would be hungry and all would have basic necessities." Jesus' call to action was an individual charge, to be fulfilled individually and not to be abrogated to a government (profane or otherwise) to enforce such feeding and caring.
I think you overstate, or simply misstate. Please outline which of "the more conservative ideals of the time...were alarmingly closely aligned with many of the [conservative] ideas of today."
This is not even slightly true unless you intend the word "liberal" in almost the opposite sense to which it is normally used in America today.