Thursday, April 19, 2012

What Chu Talkin' 'bout

According to the 7th Article of Faith Mormons have one more thing they have to justify believing that they don't really believe.
We believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth.
Tongues. Mormons generally attribute Missionaries learning and teaching a foreign language as having the gift of tongues. To Mormons it's either speaking in another language, or understanding another language. Rather than the gibberish some Christians believe it is. The times I've heard Christians speaking in tongues it just sounds like this to me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zkJqC78b_w&feature=related.
So let that be a lesson, if you study really hard everyday and use a foreign language everyday you will have the gift of tongues and be able to speak in that language.

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Other Worlds

I grew up being taught that there were other worlds like Earth, and that Jesus was the Savior of all of them. Talk about a jip! Can you imagine being born on some other Earth and hearing about some guy named Jesus who was born on some other planet? That would be like when there's some mega-event and you can go to the movie theater to watch it. Kinda not really the same thing.
However, I was also taught that Jesus could have gone to those other Earths after he teleported away from the BoM people. Which is pretty sweet compensation for the whole crucifixion thing if you ask me. He got to jet set around the Universe and visit other worlds! Sounds sweet to me, but I am a Star Trek fan. On the down side, he did have to teach the same things over and over again. Like the Eagles playing Hotel California for the billionth time. I'm sure he lost some of his pazzaz, unless of course he learned some new tricks or got a truck-a-saurus or something. Who knows the sweet ways Jesus got those alien bastards to swallow the beatitudes. Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the ... wait what's the name of this dump again?