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SDjack

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3. Surely, the Mormon Church organization can't be influenced by rMoney.
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 10:09 AM
Jul 2012

In 1990, I had a long talk with two Mormon missionaries in Washington, DC. They were working the violent area around South Capitol and M Streets. They were BYU grads and were the sons of ignorant farmers, who were the sons of ignorant farmers, etc. They revealed that all of their ancestors as far as they could trace had committed to Mormonism as children. That is, they all had made this decision using information and encouragement from ignorant farmers who had made their own decision as children. It was only two guys, but I concluded that the sons of ignorant farmers get assigned to dangerous areas in big cities. I recommended that they give it up and become atheists, but hey, I'm no missionary for atheism, so my heart wasn't broken when they declined my help. So, I went into the Chinese restaurant at Waterside, had a beer, and forgot all about them until today.

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