Nelson's New Divide

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Re: Nelson's New Divide

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In other news, the mad house is discussing what as good believing Mormons, they should change the board's name to, now that Mormon is verbotten.
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Re: Nelson's New Divide

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SteelHead wrote:In other news, the mad house is discussing what as good believing Mormons, they should change the board's name to, now that Mormon is verbotten.

There is no debate to be had, Nelson has made it clear (by revelation, apparently)

The board name MUST be: "The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints Dialogue & Discussion Board"

They could abbreviate it, but whilst LSD.com might be participant-appropriate, it's probably already be taken...
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Re: Nelson's New Divide

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For some, it will be even more difficult to abandon the term 'anti-Mormon, than it will be to stop using the word Mormon to self identify.
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Re: Nelson's New Divide

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Fence Sitter wrote:For some, it will be even more difficult to abandon the term 'anti-Mormon, than it will be to stop using the word Mormon to self identify.

But the beauty of Nelsons latest brain fart, is it removes the term anti-Mormon from the Church's lexicon. Apologists are basically screwed.
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Re: Nelson's New Divide

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One of the proposed names:

How about Latter-day Saint Dialogue and Discussion?

Another

churchofjesuschristdialogue.org
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