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Guy Shares What It’ s Like Living With 27 Moms And 150 Siblings Interview

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BoredPanda staff Different religions and profound beliefs that are not that common if not fascinate people, then at least awaken their curiosity and bring a lot of questions to the table. One of these religions is Mormonism. And of course, a lot of unknown leaves room for interpretation. Even though Mormonism has a lot of the same traditions as Christianity, there are still some features that distinguish it from other religious groups. One of these features is polygamy. Polygamy, or being married to multiple partners, is not a common phenomenon. In fact, this topic raises a lot of questions and leads to serious discussions on human rights. Despite this, there are people who decide to follow this religion and to lead a polygamist lifestyle, which only makes it more interesting to find out how they manage to live a life entirely devoted to their faith and family that is as large as the whole community. One of those examples is TikToker @kayezer0, an ex-Mormon who decided to share his experience of growing up in a polygamous family with 150 siblings. More Info: TikTok

Murray Blackmore shared what it was like growing up in a polygamous family with one dad 27 moms and 150 siblings

Image credits: kayezer0 Murray Blackmore, better known as Kaye Zero to TikTok users, gained a lot of attention after he shared a video where he stated that he grew up with one dad, 27 moms, and 150 siblings. Soon people had more questions for Murray, who gladly answered them in these short TikTok videos. As it turned out, his family are Mormons who lead a polygamist lifestyle. In one of the videos, he shared that he is a middle child and explained in more detail what it was like to grow up with this many kids in the family, from kids being named according to the system that their parents came up with to everyday logistics that had to be followed to make sure that everyone was taken care of.

His parents announced that they re expecting another kid and it s hard to tell if they re not planning on having more

Image credits: kayezer0 In one of his recent videos, Murray shared that the parents are expecting another kid, which means that there will be 151 siblings or even more, as with this many wives, this could be not the end of it.

Murray s parents came up with a naming strategy by giving names that start with the same letter to kids that were born the same year

The TikToker never questioned the fact that he has such a big family

Image credits: kayezer0 Bored Panda contacted the TikToker and also asked him few questions. Now Murray is an ex-Mormon. Having in mind that usually, such tight communities take it really hard when someone decides to leave, we were curious to find out why he decided to stop following the religion and how his family have taken it. He stated: "Growing up there was always a piece of me that never really connected to the beliefs of Mormonism. I stayed a part of the church to feel like I belonged with my family. It wasn't until I entered adulthood that I decided it just wasn't right for me. At first it was hard to tell my family, but over time, it became easier."

He answered some questions posed by people online and showed some insights of living together with so many people

Image credits: kayezer0 For those who are not the only child in their family, do you remember ever fighting for attention from your parents? Can you imagine what it's like when you have this many siblings? Murray told us that his father has 150 children and his mother-10. He is the middle child in both cases. "As much as I wanted attention from my parents, they just couldn't give it to me. It's impossible to give each child equal attention when there are so many. The attention I did get was from my siblings and I am very grateful to have had many role models in my life." According to Murray, having siblings is one of the biggest advantages of having a large family. When you have this many brothers and sisters, you never really feel lonely as you always have someone to interact with. Image credits: kayezer0 The TikToker has made multiple videos about his family, answering many questions that people have for him. The video where he explains the whole family situation got 7.3M views and the video of him announcing that there is another kid on the way got 6.8M views. The videos are full of various comments of people who are curious to find out more. Bored Panda asked Murray how people react when they find out that he's from such a large family. He admitted that at first people are shocked, but then they tend to choose one of the two ways: "they either think it's interesting and want to learn more about it or they contribute to the slander that's been a 'shadow' over my family." Polygamy is a very controversial topic to this day. The practice of polygamy in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) was banned in 1890. However, fundamentalist Mormons still choose to have more than one spouse. Since it is illegal in most countries, they usually solve this problem by legally marrying one woman and having other women as their "spiritual wives." The issue of polygamy is still a sensitive topic for Mormons and a cause for debate among them and the public. What are your thoughts on this situation? Leave your thoughts in the comments down below!

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I know that there are many Christians out there that think that their god literally gave them the Earth to do with what they please. Awful. Why does one man think the Earth needs 150 copies of his DNA? Vomit worthy. 185 185points reply PeachPossum PeachPossum Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago All it takes is one house fire. They have a snowball's chance of getting all those people out of that place in time. Where are the fire marshals? 42 42points reply Load More Replies... DC DC Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Wait a few years and, likely, on of the fire marshals will live in their house... 10 10points reply Karen Wenzel Karen Wenzel Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago no, the boys are kicked out to stop the old stupid men from not having fresh young girls to breed 7 7points reply Grumble O'Pug Grumble O'Pug Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I’ve been in rural SE Idaho and these rooming house type houses are not uncommon. 2 2points reply Seabeast Seabeast Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago The genetic disorders like fumarase deficiency would probably do them in first. 0 0points reply Daria B Daria B Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Our home planet is important, but I'm more concerned with the fact he was the one with so many wives, but were they free to have multiple husbands as well? 17 17points reply Evil Little Thing Evil Little Thing Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Ha ha no. In FLDS communities, a "council of elders" (or the Jeffs patriarch) rewards men in the community by assigning women to them. The woman's children go with her, and are expected to call whatever man they belong to "Father'. This kid's dad has the most wives and children in Canada, so he's likely the most important/powerful FLDS guy in the country. 26 26points reply Daria B Daria B Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I see. I suspected it to be this way, or something like this anyway. It sounds horrible, really. 5 5points reply The sword The sword Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 months ago And I is very important to remember that these people ARE NOT a part of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. 1 1point reply elStiJneriNO elStiJneriNO Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. maybe we should see it the same way as those women who want 0 kids. Their own business. -24 -24points reply Daria B Daria B Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Is it, though? If they were wed to him not by personal choice, then it's not their own business. 14 14points reply Terri Jones Terri Jones Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Mormons with families this large are usually getting a ton of welfare benefits, so...YEAH. 7 7points reply Grumble O'Pug Grumble O'Pug Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago They are actively signing up for that shít like it’s candy. 9 9points reply Martha Meyer Martha Meyer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago You realize that all these kids are distributed among 27 women? Normally that would be 27 different couples. 26 other men simply didn't get to procreate at all. 4 4points reply Fish Boden Fish Boden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Yeah, I realise, I mean that was the premise of the article. It's still gross. It's still too many kids. 11 11points reply Evil Little Thing Evil Little Thing Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Actually, a lot of those children may have been born from prior marriage assignments, and not biologically related to the family patriarch. The children go with the mother. -2 -2points reply Aunt Messy Aunt Messy Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago No. He never would have "married" any of them if they weren't virgins. This guy marries girls in their late teens and they literally never get to go anywhere alone again. He sees them as nothing more than holes with feet. 18 18points reply Cupcake168 Cupcake168 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) I agree, also I think (hope) no really Christian being would do with earth what they want. Also, those words in the Old Testament you relate to are the base of many religions. In Fact, Jesus was a very reasonable man and I guess he wouldn’t approve this neither. 3 3points reply Marianne Luginbuhl Marianne Luginbuhl Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Mormons aren't Christian. 0 0points reply Darth Kittius Darth Kittius Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago We believe in Christ, so therefore, we are 2 2points reply The sword The sword Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 months ago Definitely are bro. 0 0points reply Reynard Reynard Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago You just comitted the No True Scotsman flogical fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman 0 0points reply noralin noralin Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago You just don't realize that sometimes it's not a fallacy at all. It says in the bible that you can't be a true christian if you act a certain way (for example if you say you hate your brother), and that there really are people who say that they are christians but are not. Just because someone says they are christian, doesn't mean that they truely are. 0 0points reply Zophra Zophra Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago So are you saying that Mormons are not Christians due to the multiple wives? Because thee is much polygamy in the OT... even the NT says that church leaders are to have one wife - meaning others in the church might have more... 3 3points reply The sword The sword Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 months ago (edited) Well, if you put it that way... 0 0points reply Reynard Reynard Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Then why are there seemingly endless sects within Christianity? There are because there are countless interpretations of what scripture says. If it was 100% clear-cut and obvious what it means to be a Christian, there would be only one sect. There isn't, therefore the fallacy. 0 0points reply Grumble O'Pug Grumble O'Pug Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Horse shįt -3 -3points reply Wendy Wendy Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Great, you just had to make this about religion, didn't you? -4 -4points reply Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago LOL 1 1point reply Catherine Kane Catherine Kane Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. please note that while Mormons are an extreme branch of Christianity, Christians are not mormons at that point, decrying the "arrogance of Christians" is off topic and shows you don't know much about this subject -5 -5points reply Seabeast Seabeast Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago These aren't even mainstream Mormons, they're a renegade branch. Mainstream Mormons stopped being polygamous decades ago. 5 5points reply The sword The sword Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 months ago Yes!! 0 0points reply Fish Boden Fish Boden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago No-one decried the arrogance of christians. Read it again. 4 4points reply Petros Vrasivanopoulos Petros Vrasivanopoulos Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Such an ignorant comment -6 -6points reply Carole Reid Carole Reid Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago How so? 4 4points reply Mohammad Ammar Mohammad Ammar Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. But isn't it the same as each of these women having a lot of kids with a different man? -24 -24points reply ????? ????? Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. This comment has been deleted. -41 -41points reply Fish Boden Fish Boden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Nah. I disagree. There's a lot to be said for reducing our population (or at least reducing population growth) to safeguard the health of the planet. Have a big family if you want, but you're not doing the planet a favour no matter how you spin it. I'm not spreading misinformation. Perhaps you are? 36 36points reply ????? ????? Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. This comment has been deleted. -33 -33points reply Fish Boden Fish Boden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Seems like we also disagree on the definition of 'vitriolic'! But thanks for your kind words :) 14 14points reply K Witmer K Witmer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Theres a carbon footprint every human has. The more humans the more destruction of the planet. You can't just disregard fact and truth bc you want something. That's not how facts and truth work. It's been scientifically proven. Yes its the rich that cause the most destruction but how can actually justify one man having 150 children? Cmon it's not godly or good for the environment at all especially if they are meat eaters. You're just trying to twist facts to fill your own narrative 13 13points reply ????? ????? Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. This comment has been deleted. -10 -10points reply Zophra Zophra Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Okay, I'll bite. Even if what you say is true, how many people are actually having a positive impact on the earth? Thus, People "can" but are they really not generating waste? Living sustainably? Part of a positive solution? I think not. 4 4points reply ????? ????? Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment has been deleted. -1 -1point reply Zophra Zophra Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Okay, I agree that that the systems are more of a problem than the individual. (manufacturing waste vs. household waste) BUT 1. ) what consumer (even Gen Z) will want to pay more for systemic change? Part of the reason that there is such a mess is that it's cheap (and dirty) and 2.) even if this could be put into legislature- so many big lobby groups will uphold the status quo for the "system" in place in order to make money. Capitalism is built for the most profit at the cheapest cost - and I don't think this is very easily compatible with environmental solutions. 2 2points reply ????? ????? Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment has been deleted. -1 -1point reply Zophra Zophra Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) Not seeing this in USA. I teach teenagers in a very progressive state. Not seeing this at all on a large scale with youth. I agree how we are living is not sustainable in the long run. but I think it will unfortunately hurt poorer countries first. (we need more resources - we'll take yours. We need a place to put our plastic trash and biohazardous waste- your country will do since we can pay a pittance since your country has many needs). Thus, I think we have to wait until the cost of being sustainable is cheaper than the cost of polluting manufacturing/consumerism. For example I don't think the waterways will be clean until the price of bottled water increases and we lack potable water. We won't move substantially to electric cars while gas is cheaper. Please note these are my opinions and I'm not particularly knowledgeable this area, but your views sadly seem too optimistic. 1 1point reply ????? ????? Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment has been deleted. -1 -1point reply Grumble O'Pug Grumble O'Pug Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) For the record: you are a fùckwit. 2 2points reply ????? ????? Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment has been deleted. -1 -1point reply The sword The sword Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 months ago Why has Toast deleted all his/her comments? 0 0points reply Lyn Moffett Lyn Moffett Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Looks like a cult 113 113points reply Evil Little Thing Evil Little Thing Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Because it is a cult. 57 57points reply Load More Replies... Julia Larsson Julia Larsson Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago my thoughts exactly 18 18points reply StrawberryParfait StrawberryParfait Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago It is a cult. Rampant with child sexual abuse. 14 14points reply Aunt Messy Aunt Messy Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago It is. 10 10points reply Jason Jack Jason Jack Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Understand that this article is about a cult, not The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints or Mormons. Yes a 20-25% of Latter-Day Saints did practice polygamy including leaders in the 1800s. However, Mormons discontinued that practice in 1890. Cults like the one this article speaks of broke off at that time. Polygamy is still practiced today in Africa. Polygamists cannot join The Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints or Mormons.. The author has perpetuated a lazy 130 year old lie. 3 3points reply Evil Little Thing Evil Little Thing Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago They consider themselves the real Mormons. Both sects originated from a guy who "married" twelve year olds after telling stories while staring into a hat, anyway. 15 15points reply The sword The sword Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 months ago (edited) Just because they "consider" themselves members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day saints, doesn't mean they actually are. Also, they probably don't really consider themselves members. 0 0points reply Qjt Qjt Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Sorry, but pretty much every religion is a cult. Including Mormons, Catholics etc. 6 6points reply Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Qjt - all religions are cults in the historical use of the word. All religions are not cults in the current popular use of the word. Since currently the term or word cult is applied to an organization which makes it impossible to leave the group while still maintaining positive relationships with those in the cult (among other negative impacts such as fear based theology, strict often unreasonable demands, isolation from outsiders, stripping of monies, gaslighting, physical and/or sexual abuses, grooming etc (think Scientology, Jim Jones, Branch Dividians ). Language is a living thing. Word meanings change, like the word f*g, once used as a slang term for cigarettes now a derogatory word slung at nearly all males to denote weakness, differences or sexual orientation. 2 2points reply Eric S. Eric S. Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Oh please. The official mormon church ditched the polygamist doctrine for political convenience. Their teaching are batshit crazy, they have rampant child abuse and youth suicide. Evil, evil, evil cult full of lies. 4 4points reply Stephanie Hewitt Stephanie Hewitt Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Lol mormons are a cult. 1 1point reply The sword The sword Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 months ago My words exactly 0 0points reply Ezigma Ezigma Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Looks like? Try is! 2 2points reply Grumble O'Pug Grumble O'Pug Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago It is. Those women are idiots 1 1point reply noralin noralin Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago You are very ignorant. Do you realize that those women might not actually have a choise? 5 5points reply Christopher Bowers Christopher Bowers Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago They need to take that husband to the vet and get him fixed, like 26 marriages ago. 41 41points reply Zophra Zophra Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Best comment I read today! 6 6points reply Load More Replies... Christopher Bowers Christopher Bowers Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Lol thanks! 2 2points reply Flip Flip Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) lol 4 4points reply The Crazy Goldendoodle Lover The Crazy Goldendoodle Lover Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 7 months ago On my god 0 0points reply Load More Comments POST Fish Boden Fish Boden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) The breath-taking arrogance and blatant disregard for the planet here disgusts me. I know that there are many Christians out there that think that their god literally gave them the Earth to do with what they please. Awful. Why does one man think the Earth needs 150 copies of his DNA? Vomit worthy. 185 185points reply PeachPossum PeachPossum Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago All it takes is one house fire. They have a snowball's chance of getting all those people out of that place in time. Where are the fire marshals? 42 42points reply Load More Replies... DC DC Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Wait a few years and, likely, on of the fire marshals will live in their house... 10 10points reply Karen Wenzel Karen Wenzel Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago no, the boys are kicked out to stop the old stupid men from not having fresh young girls to breed 7 7points reply Grumble O'Pug Grumble O'Pug Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I’ve been in rural SE Idaho and these rooming house type houses are not uncommon. 2 2points reply Seabeast Seabeast Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago The genetic disorders like fumarase deficiency would probably do them in first. 0 0points reply Daria B Daria B Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Our home planet is important, but I'm more concerned with the fact he was the one with so many wives, but were they free to have multiple husbands as well? 17 17points reply Evil Little Thing Evil Little Thing Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Ha ha no. In FLDS communities, a "council of elders" (or the Jeffs patriarch) rewards men in the community by assigning women to them. The woman's children go with her, and are expected to call whatever man they belong to "Father'. This kid's dad has the most wives and children in Canada, so he's likely the most important/powerful FLDS guy in the country. 26 26points reply Daria B Daria B Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I see. I suspected it to be this way, or something like this anyway. It sounds horrible, really. 5 5points reply The sword The sword Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 months ago And I is very important to remember that these people ARE NOT a part of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. 1 1point reply elStiJneriNO elStiJneriNO Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. maybe we should see it the same way as those women who want 0 kids. Their own business. -24 -24points reply Daria B Daria B Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Is it, though? If they were wed to him not by personal choice, then it's not their own business. 14 14points reply Terri Jones Terri Jones Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Mormons with families this large are usually getting a ton of welfare benefits, so...YEAH. 7 7points reply Grumble O'Pug Grumble O'Pug Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago They are actively signing up for that shít like it’s candy. 9 9points reply Martha Meyer Martha Meyer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago You realize that all these kids are distributed among 27 women? Normally that would be 27 different couples. 26 other men simply didn't get to procreate at all. 4 4points reply Fish Boden Fish Boden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Yeah, I realise, I mean that was the premise of the article. It's still gross. It's still too many kids. 11 11points reply Evil Little Thing Evil Little Thing Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Actually, a lot of those children may have been born from prior marriage assignments, and not biologically related to the family patriarch. The children go with the mother. -2 -2points reply Aunt Messy Aunt Messy Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago No. He never would have "married" any of them if they weren't virgins. This guy marries girls in their late teens and they literally never get to go anywhere alone again. He sees them as nothing more than holes with feet. 18 18points reply Cupcake168 Cupcake168 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) I agree, also I think (hope) no really Christian being would do with earth what they want. Also, those words in the Old Testament you relate to are the base of many religions. In Fact, Jesus was a very reasonable man and I guess he wouldn’t approve this neither. 3 3points reply Marianne Luginbuhl Marianne Luginbuhl Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Mormons aren't Christian. 0 0points reply Darth Kittius Darth Kittius Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago We believe in Christ, so therefore, we are 2 2points reply The sword The sword Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 months ago Definitely are bro. 0 0points reply Reynard Reynard Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago You just comitted the No True Scotsman flogical fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman 0 0points reply noralin noralin Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago You just don't realize that sometimes it's not a fallacy at all. It says in the bible that you can't be a true christian if you act a certain way (for example if you say you hate your brother), and that there really are people who say that they are christians but are not. Just because someone says they are christian, doesn't mean that they truely are. 0 0points reply Zophra Zophra Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago So are you saying that Mormons are not Christians due to the multiple wives? Because thee is much polygamy in the OT... even the NT says that church leaders are to have one wife - meaning others in the church might have more... 3 3points reply The sword The sword Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 months ago (edited) Well, if you put it that way... 0 0points reply Reynard Reynard Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Then why are there seemingly endless sects within Christianity? There are because there are countless interpretations of what scripture says. If it was 100% clear-cut and obvious what it means to be a Christian, there would be only one sect. There isn't, therefore the fallacy. 0 0points reply Grumble O'Pug Grumble O'Pug Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Horse shįt -3 -3points reply Wendy Wendy Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Great, you just had to make this about religion, didn't you? -4 -4points reply Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago LOL 1 1point reply Catherine Kane Catherine Kane Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. please note that while Mormons are an extreme branch of Christianity, Christians are not mormons at that point, decrying the "arrogance of Christians" is off topic and shows you don't know much about this subject -5 -5points reply Seabeast Seabeast Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago These aren't even mainstream Mormons, they're a renegade branch. Mainstream Mormons stopped being polygamous decades ago. 5 5points reply The sword The sword Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 months ago Yes!! 0 0points reply Fish Boden Fish Boden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago No-one decried the arrogance of christians. Read it again. 4 4points reply Petros Vrasivanopoulos Petros Vrasivanopoulos Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Such an ignorant comment -6 -6points reply Carole Reid Carole Reid Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago How so? 4 4points reply Mohammad Ammar Mohammad Ammar Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. But isn't it the same as each of these women having a lot of kids with a different man? -24 -24points reply ????? ????? Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. This comment has been deleted. -41 -41points reply Fish Boden Fish Boden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Nah. I disagree. There's a lot to be said for reducing our population (or at least reducing population growth) to safeguard the health of the planet. Have a big family if you want, but you're not doing the planet a favour no matter how you spin it. I'm not spreading misinformation. Perhaps you are? 36 36points reply ????? ????? Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. This comment has been deleted. -33 -33points reply Fish Boden Fish Boden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Seems like we also disagree on the definition of 'vitriolic'! But thanks for your kind words :) 14 14points reply K Witmer K Witmer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Theres a carbon footprint every human has. The more humans the more destruction of the planet. You can't just disregard fact and truth bc you want something. That's not how facts and truth work. It's been scientifically proven. Yes its the rich that cause the most destruction but how can actually justify one man having 150 children? Cmon it's not godly or good for the environment at all especially if they are meat eaters. You're just trying to twist facts to fill your own narrative 13 13points reply ????? ????? Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. This comment has been deleted. -10 -10points reply Zophra Zophra Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Okay, I'll bite. Even if what you say is true, how many people are actually having a positive impact on the earth? Thus, People "can" but are they really not generating waste? Living sustainably? Part of a positive solution? I think not. 4 4points reply ????? ????? Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment has been deleted. -1 -1point reply Zophra Zophra Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Okay, I agree that that the systems are more of a problem than the individual. (manufacturing waste vs. household waste) BUT 1. ) what consumer (even Gen Z) will want to pay more for systemic change? Part of the reason that there is such a mess is that it's cheap (and dirty) and 2.) even if this could be put into legislature- so many big lobby groups will uphold the status quo for the "system" in place in order to make money. Capitalism is built for the most profit at the cheapest cost - and I don't think this is very easily compatible with environmental solutions. 2 2points reply ????? ????? Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment has been deleted. -1 -1point reply Zophra Zophra Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) Not seeing this in USA. I teach teenagers in a very progressive state. Not seeing this at all on a large scale with youth. I agree how we are living is not sustainable in the long run. but I think it will unfortunately hurt poorer countries first. (we need more resources - we'll take yours. We need a place to put our plastic trash and biohazardous waste- your country will do since we can pay a pittance since your country has many needs). Thus, I think we have to wait until the cost of being sustainable is cheaper than the cost of polluting manufacturing/consumerism. For example I don't think the waterways will be clean until the price of bottled water increases and we lack potable water. We won't move substantially to electric cars while gas is cheaper. Please note these are my opinions and I'm not particularly knowledgeable this area, but your views sadly seem too optimistic. 1 1point reply ????? ????? Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment has been deleted. -1 -1point reply Grumble O'Pug Grumble O'Pug Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) For the record: you are a fùckwit. 2 2points reply ????? ????? Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment has been deleted. -1 -1point reply The sword The sword Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 months ago Why has Toast deleted all his/her comments? 0 0points reply Lyn Moffett Lyn Moffett Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Looks like a cult 113 113points reply Evil Little Thing Evil Little Thing Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Because it is a cult. 57 57points reply Load More Replies... Julia Larsson Julia Larsson Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago my thoughts exactly 18 18points reply StrawberryParfait StrawberryParfait Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago It is a cult. Rampant with child sexual abuse. 14 14points reply Aunt Messy Aunt Messy Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago It is. 10 10points reply Jason Jack Jason Jack Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Understand that this article is about a cult, not The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints or Mormons. Yes a 20-25% of Latter-Day Saints did practice polygamy including leaders in the 1800s. However, Mormons discontinued that practice in 1890. Cults like the one this article speaks of broke off at that time. Polygamy is still practiced today in Africa. Polygamists cannot join The Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints or Mormons.. The author has perpetuated a lazy 130 year old lie. 3 3points reply Evil Little Thing Evil Little Thing Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago They consider themselves the real Mormons. Both sects originated from a guy who "married" twelve year olds after telling stories while staring into a hat, anyway. 15 15points reply The sword The sword Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 months ago (edited) Just because they "consider" themselves members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day saints, doesn't mean they actually are. Also, they probably don't really consider themselves members. 0 0points reply Qjt Qjt Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Sorry, but pretty much every religion is a cult. Including Mormons, Catholics etc. 6 6points reply Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Qjt - all religions are cults in the historical use of the word. All religions are not cults in the current popular use of the word. Since currently the term or word cult is applied to an organization which makes it impossible to leave the group while still maintaining positive relationships with those in the cult (among other negative impacts such as fear based theology, strict often unreasonable demands, isolation from outsiders, stripping of monies, gaslighting, physical and/or sexual abuses, grooming etc (think Scientology, Jim Jones, Branch Dividians ). Language is a living thing. Word meanings change, like the word f*g, once used as a slang term for cigarettes now a derogatory word slung at nearly all males to denote weakness, differences or sexual orientation. 2 2points reply Eric S. Eric S. Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Oh please. The official mormon church ditched the polygamist doctrine for political convenience. Their teaching are batshit crazy, they have rampant child abuse and youth suicide. Evil, evil, evil cult full of lies. 4 4points reply Stephanie Hewitt Stephanie Hewitt Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Lol mormons are a cult. 1 1point reply The sword The sword Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 months ago My words exactly 0 0points reply Ezigma Ezigma Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Looks like? Try is! 2 2points reply Grumble O'Pug Grumble O'Pug Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago It is. Those women are idiots 1 1point reply noralin noralin Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago You are very ignorant. Do you realize that those women might not actually have a choise? 5 5points reply Christopher Bowers Christopher Bowers Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago They need to take that husband to the vet and get him fixed, like 26 marriages ago. 41 41points reply Zophra Zophra Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Best comment I read today! 6 6points reply Load More Replies... Christopher Bowers Christopher Bowers Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Lol thanks! 2 2points reply Flip Flip Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) lol 4 4points reply The Crazy Goldendoodle Lover The Crazy Goldendoodle Lover Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 7 months ago On my god 0 0points reply Load More Comments Popular on Bored Panda I Used AI To See What These 23 Popular Cartoon Characters Would Look Like In Real Life 30 Y.O. 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