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Mormons outraged after Hegseth military policy no longer counts LDS as Christian
(www.independent.co.uk)
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But the Islamic religion is not derived from Christianity, while re LSD is
Actually LSD is derived from lysergic acid. LDS is derived from Christianity though.
LSD was derived by Albert Hoffmann and has nothing to do with an imaginary sky daddy,
LSD is derived from an obvious scam. And very stupid one at that.
Like every religion. How is LDS somehow worse than your regular “satan told me” or “I am going to heaven” christian nonsense? It’s a completely arbitrary distinction. If those folks consider themselves christians, or followers of Christ, who is entitled to deny their identity as such?
It's not, they are all equally ridiculous, some more so.
Sure
Literally everyone else on the planet has that right. You could even say it is a God given right if you wish.
And why is that?
Huh... No. Literally no.
They took an already silly thing, which at least had the benefit of being so far removed in time it leaves space for doubt about what it claims, and then piled a bunch of complete utter nonsense on top of it.
And worse of all, utter nonsense created by a con artist who couldn't even keep his own story straight, like when the original "translation" of the text only he could translate (lol) was hidden from him, he just made up a completely different one because of course he did, he was a con artist.