Fortune Cookie Prophet GENE CURL
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- Religion & Spirituality
Welcome to the Fortune Cookie Prophet Podcast, a show that discusses religious scriptures, doctrines and other religious topics from a skeptical point of view. I came up with the name for the podcast after watching the horror movie, Fortune Cookie Prophecies and thinking about the premise behind the movie, which led me to ponder the fact that a lot of religious leaders come up with nebulous sounding prophecies or predictions that are about as accurate as a message from a fortune cookie, and about as meaningful to real life; you know, just specific enough to sound like they apply to a situation, but vague enough to be difficult too disprove.The Fortune Cookie Prophet Podcast is available wherever podcasts are found.
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The "best" two years of my life: How my Mormon Mission caused me to loose my faith
Young Mormon Men are often told that a mission is the best two years of their life, but mine was certainly not, and in fact, it was hell. My mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was partially responsible for my leaving the Church and loosing my faith in God
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The Evils of Chick Tracts: The Story of Lisa
Today I will be talking about Jack Chick and his eponymously named tracts. This episode will focus mostly on one of the worst and most vile of the tracts, "Lisa" which is the story of a horrible couple who are sexually abusing their daughter but are forgiven by Jesus after reciting a magic spell (the sinners prayer) and it is as if they never did it and they will go to heaven. Of course, no thought is given to the lifelong trauma and depression the victim will endure because the parent's found Jesus, hallelujah!
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Is the God of the Bible a good God? Part 3: God loves him some blood
In this episode I will be going through the first part of the book of Leviticus in the Bible to determine if the god of the Old Testament, based on his actions in the text, is a good god and a god worth worshipping if he were real. So far it isn't looking good for god and, as we learn in Leviticus, god is prideful, vengeful, sexist and loves his people to suffer by burning up all of their best stuff because he loves the way it smells.
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Application for a wife must be approved of by Brigham Young
In this episode I go over a talk by President Brigham Young in which he talks about the duty of the saints and how they should not have any fun until they have done everything they need to do, and at one point in the talk he mentioned about how men would submit applications for a wife. WTF? Brigham young decided who got married to who?
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The Testaments of one Fold and one Shepard review, and Brigham Young says some violent and racist stuff
In this episode I review what was once one of my favorite films, The Testaments of One Fold and One Shepard, which is basically just a Mormon propaganda film. In the Journal of Discourses, Brigham Young said a bunch of racist things about Native Americans and talked about how petty theft should be dealt with by murdering the thief.
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Early Utah Mormons put adulterers to death with the blessing of the court
In this episode I talk about hate pastor Greg Locke and how he is unhinged, running around the stage and yelling about witches in the congregation. In my reading from the Journal of Discourses read about and discuss how Howard Egan murdered James Monroe for sleeping with his wife and did so with the blessing of the Mormon Church and was acquitted for the crime by the court, not because they thought he did not commit the murder, but because they thought it was a justified homicide.