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Mormons Make Great FBI Recruits

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80 points churchill | 4 comments | 01 May 23 13:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mouzogu ◴[01 May 23 14:47 UTC] No.35773503[source]▶
three factors:

> "Mormon people often have strong foreign language skills, from missions overseas"

> "a relatively easy time getting security clearances, given their abstention from drugs and alcohol"

> "and a willingness to serve"

It's quite a strange religion, not to be offensive. I always get approached by them at the mall when i'm in the US...I always think to myself the kind of person is drawn to this belief around the character of Joseph Smith.

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yarg ◴[01 May 23 14:50 UTC] No.35773555[source]▶
What religion isn't strange?

Seriously, the only reason you think that the religions that you're used to aren't weird as shit is overexposure.

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1. Ekaros ◴[01 May 23 15:34 UTC] No.35774288[source]▶
Christianity has lot of weird stuff. When you really start to think it over from roots and consider certain aspects. But members are just told to follow and ignore those aspects. Not to mention the stuff that is simply ignored if you would slightly expand it.
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2. yarg ◴[01 May 23 16:00 UTC] No.35774727[source]▶
Believe and do not question - questioning's the devil's work.
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3. giraffe_lady ◴[01 May 23 17:48 UTC] No.35776500[source]▶
I don't think this adequately describes the experience or guidance, for a lot of believers. Grappling with unbelief is embedded in the synoptic tradition itself, and so we know it was present and acknowledged at the very earliest beginnings of christianity. Many prominent and highly influential early church fathers wrote about it, and acknowledged belief as an unstable and often fleeting state to be anticipated and received with gratitude. "The silence" of god is one of the most common themes in christian literature. Some churches address it explicitly in their catechism.

The public performance of belief is universal orthopraxy for christians, I think. But privately and with trusted confidants the conversation is far more nuanced than "ignore the weird stuff."

4. cjmcqueen ◴[02 May 23 12:07 UTC] No.35786233[source]▶
As a practicing Christian and member of the church of Jesus Christ I was taught, and teach regularly, to question everything. Questions are how we build understanding and faith. The last chapter of the Book of Mormon is an admonishment to reflect on what is written, to think about, ask questions and to pray about it.

Moroni 10

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/mo...

What I think too many very intelligent people forget is that faith and knowledge are two different things. But, if you want to start a project, a business, or a relationship... You need both. One feeds the other.

I choose never to undermine the faith of others because it is those strong beliefs and acts of faith that created light bulbs, assembly lines, search engines, massive online book stores and put us in the moon again and again. Faith is pretty powerful stuff

Hebrews 11

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/heb/...