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BREAKING NEWS UPDATE: Authorities enter Eldorado-area temple (Fundamentalist LDS cult)
Go San Angelo ^ | 5 April 08 | Paul A. Anthony

Posted on 04/06/2008 5:27:22 AM PDT by SkyPilot

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To: metmom

I have to restrain myself. Sometimes it becomes very easy to blame a plethora of the world’s problems on pathetic specimens of the male gender.

I must say no more.


1,321 posted on 04/08/2008 8:48:28 AM PDT by Froufrou
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To: ansel12; Uriah_lost; Tennessee Nana; CindyDawg
I should have only directed it at the men, I bet the women don’t even have a jackhammer at all.

We don't need any steenkin' hammers...perfume and sweet talk will work just fine.

1,322 posted on 04/08/2008 8:49:19 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (An "Inconvenient Truth".....Save the Earth... it's the only planet with chocolate.)
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To: Froufrou; All

This has been a state operation up to this point, and now they’ve brought in the feds. I wonder what state authorities have discovered. They had to use the “jaws of death” to get into the temple, and last night they brought in jack hammers.

Also, law enforcement is reportedly on the lookout for Seth Jeffs, brother of Warren Jeffs who may be headed to the ranch.

http://www.myeldorado.net/


1,323 posted on 04/08/2008 8:50:41 AM PDT by colorcountry (To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Froufrou

Yeah. It’s seems that there are tearing the place apart looking for her.


1,324 posted on 04/08/2008 8:51:33 AM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: colorcountry

They may be concerned that she was moved to another state.


1,325 posted on 04/08/2008 8:52:28 AM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: greyfoxx39

And a frying pan... for the man that even thinks about bringing another “wife “ home.


1,326 posted on 04/08/2008 8:54:20 AM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: sevenbak
I totally get that your church no longer practices polygamy. And anyone who does is kicked out. That is all well and good. So why try to defend it?

My argument is that polygamy is never right, not now, not a hundred years ago, not ever.
All those people in the Bible that you mentioned were sinners, men of God but still sinners.
Just because they practiced it doesn't mean they were right in doing so.
Sarah and Abraham is the prime example. She was attempting to ‘help’ God by giving her maid to Abraham. She doubted she could have a child. That was wrong. And Hagar was only property. She belonged to Sarah. Abraham having a child with Hagar was not ordained by God. It was all Sarah's stupid idea.
That is what those poor women in Texas are. Property.

1,327 posted on 04/08/2008 8:57:49 AM PDT by JRochelle (Voting Obama on May 6.)
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To: CindyDawg; greyfoxx39; colorcountry; metmom

Another wife, or her germs! There are less romantic reasons for keeping oneself chaste, ya know? Sheesh!

Flowers and champagne are always the right choice. I never have to force myself on my husband! [/blush]

Greyfoxx is evidence that my motto is true: There IS nothing finer on the planet than a gentleman!


1,328 posted on 04/08/2008 8:58:51 AM PDT by Froufrou
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To: colorcountry; CindyDawg

I am getting a very nasty feeling that they will never find her. And, she must have thought of that before she called. She chose to risk sacrificing herself [one] for the others [401.]


1,329 posted on 04/08/2008 9:00:16 AM PDT by Froufrou
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To: sevenbak
I'll offer more than an explanation, I'll let the rest of the verses speak for itself.

John 17: 11, 21-22
11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

• • • 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:

Thanks for that great sermon on the trinity. However, how does this relate exactly to your contention that God approves adultery???

1,330 posted on 04/08/2008 9:00:18 AM PDT by conservativegramma
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To: Froufrou

OOPS! Greyfoxx is a woman....


1,331 posted on 04/08/2008 9:00:44 AM PDT by colorcountry (To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Froufrou

The FLDS have an incinerator that is capable of destroying DNA.

I posted this earlier on this thread.

here’s a link: http://www.rickross.com/reference/polygamy/polygamy395.html

A former FLDS member who left the church in April tells New Times he believes Jeffs is building a blood-atonement room in the Texas temple where sinners’ throats would be slit and their bodies burned in a DNA-incinerating crematory. It is believed by strict constructionists of FLDS doctrine that this last-gasp ritual is sometimes necessary to ensure a sinner’s eternal salvation.

Robert Richter says he left the church in April while he was working on a “secret project” to build computer controls for an extremely high-temperature thermostat that he now fears could be used to operate such a crematory at the temple to dispose of the remains of blood-atonement victims.

Richter says he was told to design controls to operate a thermostat that could handle temperatures up to 2,700 degrees. At that heat level, DNA is destroyed. Richter says he felt unqualified to handle such a project and wondered why YFZ officials did not hire a licensed specialist to do the work.

Richter says he was deeply troubled when he was told his work on the thermostat controls was to be kept secret. Richter, who was working in Colorado City, says he knew the thermostat was to be used in conjunction with a furnace, but he was not allowed to speak to other FLDS technicians working in Texas about the project.

The secrecy disturbed him to the point that he decided to leave the FLDS. It was a monumental decision, especially since he had a young wife and an infant to support.


1,332 posted on 04/08/2008 9:06:09 AM PDT by colorcountry (To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: colorcountry; greyfoxx39

A woman with an eye for fine gentleman! ;o)


1,333 posted on 04/08/2008 9:06:20 AM PDT by Froufrou
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To: sevenbak
As for “Living” prophets, walking the Earth now... who says there ARE any?

Who says there are any? The bible does.

Ephesians 4:
11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

Uh, you missed Ephesians 2:20 - ”And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;”

Apostles and prophets had a set time in history, they were foundational to the establishment of the Church. They are no more necessary today than when you build a building you need to keep laying a foundation upon a foundation upon a foundation upon a foundation…..

And you missed I Cor. 13:8-10 - 8Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

Again, these verses teach specifically that prophecy is temporary….

Why is it temporary you ask?

Hebrews 1:1&2 - 1God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
2Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

Your insistence on a ‘living prophet’ violates clear scriptural teaching that Christ has superceded such an office. Unless of course you’re claiming Joseph Smith or any other ‘living prophets’ are greater than Christ????

1,334 posted on 04/08/2008 9:07:25 AM PDT by conservativegramma
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To: CindyDawg; Froufrou

Let’s hope that what they don’t find is a body. Jackhammers are used for concrete.


1,335 posted on 04/08/2008 9:08:32 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: colorcountry

I saw that, and while I am no conspiracy theorist I wouldn’t be too quick to discount such a thing. It makes you wonder though, doesn’t it, whether men like Richter can’t stay in because they have too much character, too much honor? Doesn’t say much for the rest...


1,336 posted on 04/08/2008 9:08:46 AM PDT by Froufrou
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To: colorcountry

Oh dear Lord.

these people are sick and evil.


1,337 posted on 04/08/2008 9:08:59 AM PDT by bonfire
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To: metmom

You thinking what I am? Ala ‘Telltale Heart?’


1,338 posted on 04/08/2008 9:09:24 AM PDT by Froufrou
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To: Froufrou

I think we all are. Sad part is, I don’t think anyone of us would be suprised. :(


1,339 posted on 04/08/2008 9:11:07 AM PDT by bonfire
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To: colorcountry

This cannot possibly be what is meant to be protected by the First Amendment. One can call it *religious* activity all they want. Enough is enough.


1,340 posted on 04/08/2008 9:11:31 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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