Responding to comments. You guys, you know-- this is part three, isn't
it? They just say so many crazy things and
so many edifying and wonderful things as well. We got to respond to some of them.
Gotta respond to some of them. Is that what I sound like to you? Is that what I sound
like to you? You know, Kwaku you just-- I'm
doing you. I'm doing you. So the syntax of your sentence Kwaku. Kwaku the juxtaposition Kwaku, the
juxtaposition of the way that you speak sometimes is just
mind-blowing to me. How are we friends, right? It just works!
Alright so on our episode "What to Expect Going into a Sunday." This is from
Patrick Layerly or Layer-leh. "You briefly mentioned no crosses in your
church, what do you think of the symbol of the cross?
I wear one." If you wear across I think it's totally cool. Yeah, you do you.
Yeah, you do you. Honestly people think that Mormons hate the cross as if it's
like vampire hating the cross like you burn or something.
No, the cross is a beautiful symbol. It's a symbol that has been used
throughout Christianity. I'm not gonna downplay that symbol at all. We don't
use crosses in our churches and that's not to say that we don't have paintings
with Christ and a cross or things like that but we just simply don't parade the
cross around as if it's the representation of our church, you know? We
believe that Christ is crucified but he still lives again, he rose from
the grave, he still lives again. So I also know a couple of faithful Mormons that
are converts to the church that's still where their crosses.
Early Mormons, a lot of them still wore cross necklaces as part of the culture. What
I said one time in a comment was, if it makes you feel closer to the divine, if
it reminds you of Jesus Christ and everything that he has done for you and
prepares you to have a good day, wear a cross. Yeah, I don't care, wear a
cross. I've got a Moroni necklace I wear sometimes. Do you really? Yeah my friend
Lauren, I'll show you, my friend Lauren made it, she's a Canadian
Catholic and she made it for me and I love it. It's one of my favorite
things. Also I wear garments. I don't need anything else on to remind me of Jesus. I got him.
so Fred Hammond on the "Mormons Respond to Atheists with Greg Trimble" episode, he
said "What's the attitude towards gay people in the Mormon Church? My gaydar is
telling me that at least two, if not all three of these young gentlemen are gay.
How is that working?" First off, he's using gaydar, you know, a
slur that is insensitive to prove that Mormons are homophobic. It's basically
saying like you know gay people are treated badly, all Mormons are homophobes,
my gaydar is going off-0 these guys are gay, how could they be Mormon? How dare you be
gay and Mormon? Mormons are homophobes, ya gays. It just doesn't make any sense.
Okay Ian is actually married to a woman
and she's great, she's been on the show. You can go watch episodes where she corrects
all my horrible dating tips. Greg is also married and I am straight but not
married and guess what? Neither you, me, Greg, Sienna are homophobes.
And also we have an episode that's already come out with Peter about how we
can minister to the LGBTQ community better, how they can be better allies
to the LGBTQ community. So, sorry Fred, sorry. We're not homophobes and we're
straight. Alright so this was on the "What to Expect When Going into a Sunday."
Martin Anugus. "Are we finally admitting there's only two Mormons? Your
token female is not only gone from the show, she's also removed from your logo.
How about a show that talks about her apparent irrelevancy?" Interesting. First
off, let's dissect this. Yes. Are we finally admitting there's only two
Mormons? We admitted it already, we've already said in the comment section. We even
said it I think in an episode one time. We literally said here's a deal ah there's
two of us Shelly couldn't make it for scheduling
reasons and we'll try to have a guess on a lot so we keep it as 3
Mormons. Alright and we keep going here. Your token female has not only gone from
the show she's also removed from your logo period. She's not in the logo that
is correct. I want to examine how people think that they can use the word
token to describe a human being, as if all Shelly had to offer was that she's a
woman. That's all this guy could see. You could only see that she's a woman. You do
know that 3 Mormons is a PR stunt that has to include a black, a
white and a woman in order to make sure that the church is fully
diverse. Yes because there's nothing else to me being black nothing else to being
Shelly the being a woman that's it. Not her experience blogging,
not my experience in a film. She's the token woman, she's a token woman, anyway.
So this idea that we removed her from the logo because of her apparent
irrelevancy. No, she's no longer on the logo because she's no longer on the show.
It's kind of like how someone's no longer playing for the Yankees so
they're gonna wear a different Jersey now, okay. It's not because we don't like
them, it's because she chose not to be on the show anymore.
That's it. How dare someone change things when changes have happened.
How dare, how dare you adjust your show for the changes of the show who knew you
could do that? I had no idea. So changing the logo is just a branding
choice, and we decided it was time that was all. Only 13 things Mormons believe
episode Olivia Hall said what about the Blessed Virgin Mary? do you believe in
her? Yes we do. The Virgin Mary she is wonderful. One of the most Christ-like
people in the Bible that isn't Christ. Maybe if not the Christ-like
person at the time. Yes I mean and honestly I wish that we talked more
about at least in my wards I wish we talked more about the Virgin Mary,
but I also wish she had more parts in the scriptures. I think behind this
question there is history and experience in Catholicism. When someone says what
about the Blessed Virgin Mary do you believe in her? In her as the intercessor
to get to the point of God so we can have our sins forgiven no we don't.
She is not an mediator between us and Jesus Christ or us and God. We
revere her as the temporal earthly mother of Jesus Christ.
With that she was endowed with a great responsibility. She was holy, she
was pure, and she had to teach the savior of the Lord the gospel which is crazy if
you think about it. So we love her and she is blessed. We don't
say any prayers to her for her to pray on our behalf, but we
respect her and we love the Virgin Mary. This is behind-the-scenes episode.
Hot socks asked, I thought Mormons didn't drink soda? We
do. We do drink soda. I drink a ton of soda. You know what
I've got right here? You know what I got right here folks? I'll show you what I've got
right here. I don't think you should wave this around like
something you're proud. This is my Sodalicious loyalty card. I go--I drink so
much soda. You have a loyalty card to a soda place. Sodalicious is good as heck. I don't have a loyalty card to
a place. That's okay. I'm single. I can do things like this. So the important part is I
faster so no but a lot of people think like Mormons can't drink soda--
That's actually not a rule that's just kind of a rumor. There are certain
Mormons who take it upon themselves not to drink caffeine, but that does
not apply to all Mormons. Mormons can drink soda if they want to
My wife taught me to avoid soda ever since we got married just because
it's got a lot of sugar in it but that's not saying all Mormons don't drink soda.
That was a personal choice. I will drink soda till I die. Another
comment about how Shelly is no longer on the show with us
also we love her. This is from Martin. Could it be that there was a social
media snafu she voiced an opinion that in Utah bubble acceptable comma but the
rest of the world said WTF and she was asked not to return. How about one of
those snappy more righteous than your answers gentlemen. Some people are like
I don't get it. I don't understand what he's trying to say. If I may, I may just say this person doesn't
actually care that Shelley's not in the show. They just don't like our show
because they don't like Mormons, so they're gonna say anything they can, and
if someone who left a show like happens to shows all the time they're gonna take
it try to make it a big conspiracy. I don't know why. You don't have to do that with
your life. You can just go and continue to work at Office Depot or Konica Minolta
or wherever you work at Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs just you know if you don't
just assuming these people only work at Office Depot.
Don't obsess over 20-something girl living in Utah, going to college. Live
your own life. So, Ben Shapiro on the what to expect on
a Sunday at a Mormon Church episode commented: bunch mr. Mack suit-wearing
fools blabbering about nothing but lame stories kind stories like milk and cream
lol I am not swallowing the green jello this
Sunday heck no!
On the three Mormons an atheist episode, Matt happen says: okay as an atheist I've always had this question. If the premise that God is an
all-powerful and good God, isn't it evil to allow evil to exist if a God is
all-powerful and good why would set being allow rape murder and cruelty?
Why portray those acts as a good in a holy book that is supposed to be a
guide to morality. That's a very good question. Very great, great, great
question. Great question. It's a very great question.
Your mother and father made me promise you Bruce Wayne that I would keep you safe.
I'm Michael Cain. I'm Michael Cain. Actually, if you say my cocaine. My cocaine? Yeah.
All right back to the actual question. So on our episode about the
plan of salvation with Nick Sales we talked about agency and how the Lord
puts us on Earth and allows us to make choices that affect us and affect other
people. Now murder and assault and things like that are absolutely reprehensible.
Without any doubt. This life we have from God's perspective is only a
very small portion of time, but for us right now it's everything, and that is
why we have the words of Christ to comfort us. We have the spirit to not
only give us information but to build us to make our soul stronger so we can
withstand all that kind of evil. Also it's really important to know that God
does not permit these things to happen. I like how you said allow because why would God
allow these things, because I believe that God allows us to use our free
agency, but he wants us to use our free agency to follow the commandments to
overcome the natural man to overcome our tendencies to think and morally and to
reach a higher plane. In order to actually do good you have to choose to
do it and in order to do that you have to choose to do it, and God will allow us
to do that so that we can understand. God will use men to do good
to stop evil atrocities, but when those evil things happen they're recorded in
history. Yeah and those who commit these atrocities will be judged
by their atrocities, and those who are innocent who were affected by those
atrocities will be judged with mercy and with justice, and the the blood of
those people will be put upon those who committed these atrocities. You know it's
hard to grip the violence and the sadness that occurs in the world, and I
think that's okay to have doubts about that and to not feel very comfortable
when these things happen. The doctrine of Jesus Christ shows us that we can
overcome terrible things that happen in the world through Jesus Christ, and
that's the hope and glory that the gospel brings to all of us.
Also clarification he has a bigger tank. He's in here for an hour.
Yes my goodness he has a bigger tank. We've said this so many times. There's always
someone who's like how dare you put the call PETA you know in the arms of the
angel song starts playing. I know I know Our producers like in with
the audio Pat she's like was it good. Guys, thank you for these comments. We
love them; we love reading them; we love commenting and responding.
We love your questions; we even love it when you hate us because it's kind of
fun. You know what I think your question
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