thomasm wrote: » http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/apr/09/russell-brand-margaret-thatcher This article changed my thoughts on him. Thought it was very well written
Lucas Castroman wrote: » Russell Brand is the cleverest, funniest and most engaging person I've ever heard speak. You could spend hours on youtube watching him. People's dislike for him is often rooted firmly in jelousy.
DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: » Logic seems to be lost and a lot of their arguments are inconsistent with past declarations they've made. Fag enablers is another term they have for heterosexual people who don't oppose homosexuality.
KyussBishop wrote: » I would say a good portion of them are probably potentially perfectly fine people, if they got away and were 'deprogrammed', but are manipulated into believing total nonsense, and are too fearful to leave.
Femme_Fatale wrote: » Yup. Some people have departed the church and are cut off from the family. I was amazed by the family when I watched the first Theroux documentary - was expecting foaming-at-the-mouth inbreds. The most normal, pleasant people you could encounter, apart from Fred and Shirley (even she didn't seem all that horrendous when not talking about their manifesto). The kids were lovely - what's being done to them is horrific. And there was one awful scene where they were out protesting and someone threw something at one of the young kids. Obviously their protest deserved anger but the little kid being in the firing line was just grim - and the responsibility of the church tbh. If you read about Fred when the kids were growing up - a monster. And I don't always subscribe to the "People who really hate gays are probably gay" theory... but I'd put money on it that Fred is in the closet.
Femme_Fatale wrote: » Yup. Some people have departed the church and are cut off from the family. I was amazed by the family when I watched the first Theroux documentary - was expecting foaming-at-the-mouth inbreds. The most normal, pleasant people you could encounter, apart from Fred and Shirley (even she didn't seem all that horrendous when not talking about their manifesto). The kids were lovely - what's being done to them is horrific. And there was one awful scene where they were out protesting and someone threw something at one of the young kids. Obviously their protest deserved anger but the little kid being in the firing line was just grim - and the responsibility of the church tbh. If you read about Fred when the kids were growing up - a monster. And I don't always subscribe to the "People who really hate gays are probably gay" theory... but I'd put money on it that Fred is in the closet. Do you know this for sure? I'd reckon people's dislike for him is that he comes across as an arrogant dick.
Grayson wrote: » Mormons aren't christians. And if you say that in front of them they get really really pissed off.
We are Christians in a very real sense and that is coming to be more and more widely recognized. Once upon a time people everywhere said we are not Christians. They have come to recognize that we are, and that we have a very vital and dynamic religion based on the teachings of Jesus Christ.