October 2026 General Conference: Saturday 2:00p Discussion Thread

October 2026 General Conference: Saturday 2:00p Discussion Thread

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Speakers:

Name other notes my summary
conducting: Neil Andersen
hymn: All Creatures of Our God and King
prayer: Sandino Román
Dale Renlund
Timothy Farnes
Christian Chigbundu
hymn: This is the Christ
Patricio Giuffra Prosperity Gospel. More tithing equals more blessings.
Jeremiah Morgan
Hutch Fale
hymn: Guide Us
Patrick Kearon Today's double-speak champ. Previous speech this year at BYU Education Week was about avoiding overachievement/scrupulosity. Today's speech leans into being extra scrupulous. Which is it?
Michael Dunn
Matthew Eyring how to spell "nepotism?"
hymn: My Song in the Night
Ronald Rasband exmormons equated to the prodigal son. concrete certainty that only mormonism is correct is super offensive.
hymn: Let Us All Press On
prayer: Jeannie Anette Dennis

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u/4blockhead — 12 days ago

AnalyzingMormonism (short video): Doubt your doubts. Some will treat new evidence as smoking guns against Smith's original truth claims. Others will simply retrench deeper into faith-based reasoning. See also famous South Park where new mormon converts learn about the lost 116-pages and leave.

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u/4blockhead — 1 month ago

AnalyzingMormonism (short): Leader of "Smith was never a polygamist" camp claims Young wrote the "Happiness Letter," but Smith's Nauvoo speeches fit within his changing theology of moral relativism/divine command theory, "That which is wrong under one circumstance ... often is right under another."

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u/4blockhead — 2 months ago

SL Tribune, front page: LDS Church vs Dehlin/Mormon Stories is akin to David vs Goliath. Fun fact: the public at large loves the underdog. The LDS church could win this battle and lose the PR war. Haglund: "It feels a little bit like middle school where you’re just very concerned with your image."

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u/4blockhead — 2 months ago

Bart Ehrman: Satan is not present in the Genesis story—it's a crafty snake with legs that tricks Eve. Contrast scripture against the LDS Temple creation narrative which draws upon John Milton's ideas as popularized in "Paradise Lost" (1667)

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u/4blockhead — 2 months ago

SL Tribune, Public Forum: Let's ask chatGPT what's behind the mormon church's lawsuit against John Dehlin. Okay, let's not. It's obvious "trademark litigator" Oaks had some pet projects to work on after he took the helm in 2025.

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u/4blockhead — 2 months ago

Dan McClellan (short video): Virginity is a social fiction. Interestingly, by noting the bible's treatment of women as property, McClellan has arrived at much the same place as Justin of DZ debates.

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u/4blockhead — 2 months ago

Promise Backlund (short video): The Christian god will intervene to fix your air conditioning, find your car keys, and is keeping you alive to fulfill some divine purpose. You're special—try not to dwell on the hundreds of thousands that are dying from heat, thirst, and malnutrition.

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u/4blockhead — 2 months ago

SL Tribune: Sunstone attendees honor Carol Lynn Pearson (1939-2026) with heartfelt sentiments in special session. Lindsay Hansen Park announced Pearson had died the day before the symposium opened. She gave a special memory about how Pearson had helped her get through a difficult time in her life.

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u/4blockhead — 2 months ago
▲ 451 r/exmormon

AnalyzingMormonism: PSA, all "officially authorized mormon therapists" are required to hold to stated doctrinal positions. Also, they must sign an agreement that their session notes will be relayed back to the client's local bishop. This is unethical according to professional standards.

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u/4blockhead — 2 months ago

Dan McClellan: The bible endorses slavery—not one syllable in the bible is anti-slavery. Abolition required negotiation with the text using enlightenment values. (Request: next tell us about the other relic of barbarism, polygamy in the bible.)

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u/4blockhead — 3 months ago

AnalyzingMormonism (short video): A quick summary of the ways girls are shunted onto the mommy track in the LDS church. Messages from old men—the patriarchs—reinforce the patriarchy. Falling birth rate says this heavy-handed programming is not going to work in the long run.

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u/4blockhead — 3 months ago
▲ 622 r/exmormon

NY Times: Utah drops from first to sixth in fertility rate. Reasons include (1) high starting point and (2) less belief/less adherence to messages given from LDS pulpit. Younger women are beginning to see they deserve as much of a chance at a life/career as men.

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u/4blockhead — 3 months ago
▲ 434 r/exmormon

SL Tribune, front page feature: LDS Church's founding doctrines around Native Americans is fundamentally racist. No apology could be sufficient for 2 Nephi 5 and the rest—white equals delightsome.

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u/4blockhead — 3 months ago

SL Tribune, Sunday Religion Feature: William Clayton's journals will soon be published. Will this documentation convince polygamy deniers? Did a trip to Antarctica convince flat-earthers the world is an oblate spheroid? The faithful have already abandoned skepticism with literal belief in BoM.

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u/4blockhead — 3 months ago

SL Tribune, Public Forum: Why hasn't the LDS church filed legal briefs in the recent cases that have been about persecution and discrimination against religious minorities?

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u/4blockhead — 3 months ago

Catherine Lewis' Nauvoo-era memoir (1848) covers a lot of ground on p.19: Boggs assassination attempt; Helen Mar Kimball being tricked to marry Smith; "Law of Adoption" is a mafia-like code of obedience; top tier get first pick of wives; marry Native Americans to fulfill racist prophecy.

u/4blockhead — 3 months ago

AnalyzingMormonism (short video): Catherine Lewis wrote a Nauvoo-period memoir (1848) that includes her rejecting the polygamy doctrines taught in 1843. An Elder's response, "Ought we not to receive everything Joseph saith?"

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u/4blockhead — 3 months ago