Same

The Mormon church supports stuff like this to the tune of $288 million.

And the boys were supposed to be really disturbed at the sight of girls doing physical labor.

May I suggest parallels to the Anti-Nephi-Lehis? I would also recommend having the opening character-establishing scene take place during the Women's Pull on Trek. It's symbolic.

Deseret Books, I hereby declare this concept to be in the public domain. Feel free to have someone write it.

Here's an idea: in the lead up to the final battle all the men are drafted but America's enemies (because they are evil) use strategic nuclear weapons on cities, which... you guessed it...mostly have women now.

Oh yeah mine said I'm gonna be alive to see it.

The War on Christmas continues.

My prescience allowed me to do it first.

Great and Terrible: The Complete Series This thrilling series by national bestselling author Ch…

Or former Senator Chris Stewart: www.goodreads.com/book/show/18...

Greg Olsen could never.

This is the greatest piece of Mormon scripture art I've ever seen.

Brian Herbert novels = Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites

Chapterhouse Dune - Journal of Discourses: Only for the most faithful. Extremely melted at points. Teaches great secrets that make you wonder if that was REALLY what all this was leading to or the author was just losing it. Fans would probably prefer that you didn't read it.

Heretics of Dune - the teachings of the modern prophets / General Conference: Things are starting to get a little melted. Mostly just people talking. Boring for the most part, but when it hits it really hits. Just enough interesting ideas to satisfy the fans.

God Emperor of Dune - The Pearl of Great Price: Only for those of great faith. If you've made it to this point, you're ready to learn the secrets of Godhood. Strange, uncut theology. Weirdly bigoted at points. Redefines how you think about God and the universe. The author speaks directly to you.

Children of Dune - Doctrine & Covenants: The firewall. Separates the wheats from the tares. Only for people already bought in, and even then, many who encounter its teachings do not want to continue. Mostly boring, intermittently fascinating. Prepares you for the greater light and knowledge of...

Dune Messiah - The Book of Mormon: A little stranger, but more streamlined the first book. Safe to show to investigators, which some caveats up front. A screen adaptation has to sand off some of the rough edges. Redefines parts of the first book.

Dune - The Bible: Broad appeal. Accepted by most as one of the great works within its genre. Influences run far and wide throughout the culture. Those who accepted the later books might have a different opinion on some of the specific details. Easily adaptable to movies.

The God Emperor of Dune

Mormon scripture - Dune novel concordance //thread//

Exactly. The whole Mormon theology hinges on a literal Second Coming and the events in Revelation literally occurring. You can't hand wave that as just peoples opinions because it permeates every aspect of the Mormon-exclusive standard works. It's baked in.

IMO the Mormosphere often misinterprets the point of General Conference. It's mostly a PR exercise at this point. If something isn't mentioned in conference, it doesn't mean that they don't believe it, it means they aren't emphasizing it in the forward facing media.

Don't apologize, I agree with everything you said! You have the correct read on things.

It's always interesting how it's the weirder creepier stuff that ends up not counting as doctrine. You never see them arguing that something like the necessity of the Atonement doesn't count anymore.

And just at a high level, Mormon theology doesn't make any sense without a literal Second Coming and a literal Millennium, which means all the Biblical prophesies should be interpreted in a literal sense if one's working within the Mormon context.

An unfortunate side effect of the popularizing of Mormon scholarship over the past decade has been that people online confuse folklorish things (like the Holy Ghost thing) with actual Mormon doctrine (Armageddon). It's given people a convenient framework to toss away things they don't like.

Very true. One of the most popular of those series was written by former Utah senator Chris Stewart, of all people.

You shouldn't even say "some of us" tbh. I'd wager 95%+ of Mormons believe in the Battle of Armageddon, because it's there in the scriptures and has been consistently taught that way.

I may not be a law professor but at least I can look in my own brain to find out what Mormon doctrine is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ah bummer got blocked. For the record, this was Sam Brunson telling me that Mormons don't believe in the Battle of Armageddon. He told me to "go fuck yourself" and blocked me when I pointed out he was lying. Fun!