• Albbi@piefed.ca
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      Mormons have their own book which is basically fan-fic of the bible and new testament. So it’s kinda like if you met someone who calls themselves a Trekkie, but they’ve never seen any of the shows and have only read fan-fic. Would a Trekkie accept them as one of their own?

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        Mormons read the Bible. They’d be Trek super-fans who think their favorite fic-writer is better than Roddenberry, but they would have watched ToS and NG at least.

        Source: raised cultist. Have a Mormon “quad” of all the holy texts somewhere in storage.

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      They’re polytheistic for one, and think they can become their own god of a planet if they’re ‘good’ enough.

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        Wait, I thought it was heaven, men’s heaven, men’s super heaven, and men’s super duper heaven. You’re telling me there’s a super *de duper heaven?

        *Ottocorect succ

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          Kinda, this is for the super duper extra good double stampies no erasies Mormons. When they die, they get to super Saiyan transform into a god-heir right up there with Jesus and eventually get their own planet to rule over like their god rules here.

          And I’m only being a little flippant, Exaltation is a wacky belief.

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            This is unequivocally blasphemy of the highest order. If more people knew about this, Mormons would be viewed nearly as strangely as jehova’s witnesses