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What God(s) Do Mormons Worship?

By On November 2, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Latter Day Saint (Mormon) Interests

My friend Joel (via A Chain of Gods « A Living Text) notes a great concession by Mormon scholar David H. Bailey on their “chain of gods”. I have mentioned this to many Mormons and they get very uneasy at the thought that the god of this earth was once a man part of [...]

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Engraven on Brass

By On November 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Latter Day Saint (Mormon) Interests

Anyone familiar with the story of the Book of Mormon will know the phrase, “plates of brass.” These plates are one of many sets of plates that we read of in the book. We encounter them early on, in I Nephi 3.3:

For behold, Laban hath the record of the Jews and also a genealogy [...]

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Glenn Beck's Conflation of LDS Doctrine, American Exceptionalism, and his Call for Spiritual Renewal

By On September 3, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Latter Day Saint (Mormon) Interests, The Mysterious World of American Evangelicalism

I admire Glenn Beck’s love for country, but there is more than meets the eye behind all his rhetoric. He conflates religion with America because the LDS Church believes that Jesus came to America, that God blessed the “Jews” who responded to Jesus here in America (none of this has been historically or [...]

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