What is apostasy anyway?

[creekster]

Is there a difference?

Yes

[jay santos]

http://mormondiscussions.com/phpBB3/...ic.php?t=36904

Wait, I might be confused and mixing up my "John Dehlin obsessed" people. On further review, the blog is coming from a conservative LDS view. My bad.

[Pelado]

That blog is ridiculous. And creepy. Good grief, what kind of person has the time or energy to put together something like that?

(Besides Bill Hamblin or Dan Peterson, of course.)

ummm I think it's been established who wrote that, and it's someone we all know and love.

I figured it was either Dan or one of his acolytes.

[SoonerCoug]

Anyone who pays tithing has a hand in John Dehlin's excommunication.

Vote with your $, folks. Or with your feet. Walking away is liberating. There is no good reason to support this church if you value free speech.

Whether you agree with John Dehlin or not, any reasonable, thinking person ought to admit that excommunicating a guy because of a podcast is a pretty cowardly thing to do.

[Uncle Ted]

Anyone who pays tithing has a hand in John Dehlin's excommunication.

Vote with your $, folks. Or with your feet. Walking away is liberating. There is no good reason to support this church if you value free speech.

Whether you agree with John Dehlin or not, any reasonable, thinking person ought to admit that excommunicating a guy because of a podcast is a pretty cowardly thing to do.

Actually the church is doing Dehlin a great favor by excommunicating him... Just think of all the podcasts he can create after his excommunication. He can create a whole series of podcasts on the excommunication process and invite his friend, Kate, on the show and really say want he always wanted without worrying about being excommunicated (again). And look at all the free PR Dehlin is getting. The next you know he may be sitting down with Jimmy Fallon, the girls on the View and maybe even Oprah, herself. He may continue paying tithing to church just as a way to say "Thanks for all the fish!"

[kccougar]

Anyone who pays tithing has a hand in John Dehlin's excommunication.

Vote with your $, folks. Or with your feet. Walking away is liberating.

Because clearly you are free.

[Harry Tic]

Actually the church is doing Dehlin a great favor by excommunicating him... Just think of all the podcasts he can create after his excommunication. He can create a whole series of podcasts on the excommunication process and invite his friend, Kate, on the show and really say want he always wanted without worrying about being excommunicated (again). And look at all the free PR Dehlin is getting. The next you know he may be sitting down with Jimmy Fallon, the girls on the View and maybe even Oprah, herself. He may continue paying tithing to church just as a way to say "Thanks for all the fish!"

And of course when the ride on the excommunication gravy train has reached its end, JD can tearfully come back to the church, churning out podcasts, t-shirts, keychains, and scripture tote bags. And when the revenue dries up from the prodigal son narrative, he can rinse and repeat.

If he plays his cards right, he can put his grandkids through college with this stuff.

[Uncle Ted]

And of course when the ride on the excommunication gravy train has reached its end, JD can tearfully come back to the church, churning out podcasts, t-shirts, keychains, and scripture tote bags. And when the revenue dries up from the prodigal son narrative, he can rinse and repeat.

If he plays his cards right, he can put his grandkids through college with this stuff.

Yep, he is already getting face time on the national news and he hasn't even been excommunicated yet...

http://www.msnbc.com/the-cycle/watch...y-396390979751

He is on the fast track to getting the grandkids an Harvard education.

[TripletDaddy]

I'm afraid to see what terrible decisions John Dehlin starts making after he actually loses the gift of the Holy Ghost!

[PaloAltoCougar]

John has posted on FB that he has received the letter and will announce/discuss the decision in a podcast later today. Milkin' it!

FTR, I don't think excommunication is a cowardly act, although from the little I know I think it's a poor one.

[DrumNFeather]

John has posted on FB that he has received the letter and will announce/discuss the decision in a podcast later today. Milkin' it!

FTR, I don't think excommunication is a cowardly act, although from the little I know I think it's a poor one.

If he were smart he'd offer it as a subscription service..."pay $1.99 to find out my fate."

[imanihonjin]

John has posted on FB that he has received the letter and will announce/discuss the decision in a podcast later today. Milkin' it!

FTR, I don't think excommunication is a cowardly act, although from the little I know I think it's a poor one.

I wonder if, like Kate Kelly, he will lament over how public the whole process has been.

[scottie]

John has posted on FB that he has received the letter and will announce/discuss the decision in a podcast later today. Milkin' it!

FTR, I don't think excommunication is a cowardly act, although from the little I know I think it's a poor one.

Is Radio West a podcast?

[DrumNFeather]

Maybe he'll have a hat ceremony like on signing day...

(Sits down at table, hats on the table include: LDS, Apostate, Westboro Baptists, Unitarian)

"My current status with the LDS Church is..." (picks up the LDS hat, fakes putting it on, picks up Apostate hat)

"APOSTATE!" (Confetti cannon goes off)

[Paperback Writer]

He may continue paying tithing to church just as a way to say "Thanks for all the fish!"

Now Uncle Ted, if there's one thing I've learned from official excommunication letters, it's that excommunicated Mormons no longer enjoy the privledge of paying tithes and offering. Brother John may wish to continue paying tithing but, in actuality, he cannot.