Change in the perp's gender but it sounds a lot like earlier fringe mormons killing off relatives who want to leave the cult. Boy the Iodine Belt craziness has a long reach.
The older child may still be alive. I hope he ran off, and took the younger child with him.
But odds are, this started with the younger child being "different" (and the stress and stigma often associated with that), and his mom's illness, coupled with the influence of her social and religious environment. As such, he's likely not OK.
That old shtick about "God created Man in His own image" is all backwards. Modern American "Christians" all create a God for themselves in their own image.
And boy does that Guy love violence! And hate foreigners!
Though I'm not sure who would even be a foreigner to God. His own son?
One of my wife's friends is a Mormon who she met at a lactation support group. She has done a lot for our family, but the sad part is, her religion has them recognize all the good things they do as coming from God leaving them to only take credit for the "bad" things they may do. We've been to their church picnics and they are nice enough people though they have some weird beliefs..John Krakauer said in an interview that his books tend to focus on people who are drawn to the extremes. The Mormons of today are not the Mormons of Smith or Young but I have experienced alienation from a body to which I had belonged because I stopped believing what they believed. If it came down to it I could see my wife's friend turning away from us if we challenged their beliefs. My wife is a live-and-let-live type of person. I try to remind her that despite her friend's disposition the whole reason she has us in her life is that she is a mark and she is waiting for an opportunity to present itself for her to bring on the conversion cavalry.
Shit gets complicated in Mormonism. According to Wikipedia:
"Moroni is thought by Latter Day Saints to be the same person as a Book of Mormon prophet-warrior named Moroni, who was the last to write in the golden plates. The book states that Moroni buried them before he died after a great battle between two pre-Columbian civilizations. After he died, he became an angel who was tasked with guarding the golden plates and directing Smith to their location in the 1820s."
I recall hearing that they were one and the same. The details were lost on me, and I don't remember anything after my eyes rolled back in my head.
As a pagan turquoise fairy...I represent that remark.Just kidding, I'm agnostic.
Isn't Moroni the plual of moron?
The more you read of this, the less sense it makes.
Is that a book? Who wrote it.?
Book and movie.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=...
Change in the perp's gender but it sounds a lot like earlier fringe mormons killing off relatives who want to leave the cult. Boy the Iodine Belt craziness has a long reach.
I like 'Memory Pain' but I don't even know anyone else that has even heard of it.
The older child may still be alive. I hope he ran off, and took the younger child with him.
But odds are, this started with the younger child being "different" (and the stress and stigma often associated with that), and his mom's illness, coupled with the influence of her social and religious environment. As such, he's likely not OK.
Excellent book. It's bizarre what delusions people can have and how these beliefs are part of what I call organized superstition.
That old shtick about "God created Man in His own image" is all backwards. Modern American "Christians" all create a God for themselves in their own image.
And boy does that Guy love violence! And hate foreigners!
Though I'm not sure who would even be a foreigner to God. His own son?
One of my wife's friends is a Mormon who she met at a lactation support group. She has done a lot for our family, but the sad part is, her religion has them recognize all the good things they do as coming from God leaving them to only take credit for the "bad" things they may do. We've been to their church picnics and they are nice enough people though they have some weird beliefs..John Krakauer said in an interview that his books tend to focus on people who are drawn to the extremes. The Mormons of today are not the Mormons of Smith or Young but I have experienced alienation from a body to which I had belonged because I stopped believing what they believed. If it came down to it I could see my wife's friend turning away from us if we challenged their beliefs. My wife is a live-and-let-live type of person. I try to remind her that despite her friend's disposition the whole reason she has us in her life is that she is a mark and she is waiting for an opportunity to present itself for her to bring on the conversion cavalry.
I wouldn't be surprised if we eventually find out that they were both responsible for the deaths of their respective previous spouses.
What an unbelievably disturbing story, and hoping that those kids turn up safe, though I don't know what the odds are of that sadly
They take the long view, which small people like us can't understand.
Apparently muslims. But if we get lots of Buddhists here suddenly, you know that will change.
She's blonde and everything.
Shit gets complicated in Mormonism. According to Wikipedia:
"Moroni is thought by Latter Day Saints to be the same person as a Book of Mormon prophet-warrior named Moroni, who was the last to write in the golden plates. The book states that Moroni buried them before he died after a great battle between two pre-Columbian civilizations. After he died, he became an angel who was tasked with guarding the golden plates and directing Smith to their location in the 1820s."
I recall hearing that they were one and the same. The details were lost on me, and I don't remember anything after my eyes rolled back in my head.