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Black Diamond Bay · 06-26-2008, 05:24 PM

I honestly had no idea the confusion was that widespread. Maybe that was naive of me.

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700238213,00.html

Sleeping in EQ · 06-26-2008, 05:38 PM

The 29% who said the LDS and FLDS were not connected at all, are wrong.

We parted ways with polygamy decades ago, but we share a common heritage with the FLDS. The "The LDS Church is not affiliated in anyway with the FLDS," is more accurate.

Sociologists of Religion put the FLDS in the Mormon branch of Christianity, but not, of course, in the LDS Church. Evangelicals might go nuts if they knew that the pointy headed academics have categorized Mormons as Christian, albeit with their own branch.

BYU71 · 06-26-2008, 05:57 PM

I don't know why, but every time I see the FLDS walking around it reminds me of BYU.

DrumNFeather · 06-26-2008, 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by BYU71

I don't know why, but every time I see the FLDS walking around it reminds me of BYU.

I would think it would remind you more of Ricks. After all, it's a more strict dress code.

BYU71 · 06-26-2008, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by DrumNFeather

I would think it would remind you more of Ricks. After all, it's a more strict dress code.

True, but Ricks rarely enters my mind. BYU is constantly in my thoughts and prayers.

DrumNFeather · 06-26-2008, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by BYU71

True, but Ricks rarely enters my mind. BYU is constantly in my thoughts and prayers.

lol. Fair enough.

06-26-2008, 05:24 PM	#1
Black Diamond Bay Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: California Posts: 1,000	LDS vs. FLDS I honestly had no idea the confusion was that widespread. Maybe that was naive of me. http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700238213,00.html

06-26-2008, 05:38 PM	#2
Sleeping in EQ Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: The People's Republic of Monsanto Posts: 3,085	The 29% who said the LDS and FLDS were not connected at all, are wrong. We parted ways with polygamy decades ago, but we share a common heritage with the FLDS. The "The LDS Church is not affiliated in anyway with the FLDS," is more accurate. Sociologists of Religion put the FLDS in the Mormon branch of Christianity, but not, of course, in the LDS Church. Evangelicals might go nuts if they knew that the pointy headed academics have categorized Mormons as Christian, albeit with their own branch. __________________ "Do not despise the words of prophets, but test everything; hold fast to what is good; " 1 Thess. 5:21 (NRSV) We all trust our own unorthodoxies.

06-26-2008, 05:57 PM	#3
BYU71 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 5,084	I don't know why, but every time I see the FLDS walking around it reminds me of BYU.