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sheepslayer247
reply to post by semperfortis
My point is that if a Mormon asset truly believes and accepts the principle of blood atonement, as described in the Book of Mormon, would they not be able to justify and handle the psychological consequences of torturing or killing another human better than the average person?
Or am I way off base here?
semperfortis
As for handling the psychological consequences, that is also a misnomer as anyone that can handle torture without negative psychological consequences is not someone that should be considered well adjusted. In fact they would need to be either a Sociopath, psychotic or a mixture of the 2. In other words they would kill anyway even if not in the performance of their duties..
The GUT
Not to mention Allen Dulles primary failure--and the the superior ability of the Soviets to actually penetrate us--as evidenced by the Ghelen Organization and other Project Paperclip stupidity. Much respect & no offense, jus' sayin.' History tells all.
The GUT
semperfortis
As for handling the psychological consequences, that is also a misnomer as anyone that can handle torture without negative psychological consequences is not someone that should be considered well adjusted. In fact they would need to be either a Sociopath, psychotic or a mixture of the 2. In other words they would kill anyway even if not in the performance of their duties..
Do you think they can ever retire? Even after retirement I mean? Are some of them "retired" permanently?
My overal point is, you can take any other religion, look at how many people in a particular industry or field are members of that religion, then start making inferences to a "conspiracy" just based on those people who just happened to also bemembers of the same church. E.g. Just because so many baseball players are Catholic there must be a conspiracy between the Catholic church and the MLB.
It's highly annoying when people assume so many different things about the LDS church.
you are way off on this one.
We are happy to report that we "dodged a bullet" recently when President Obama gave his January 17th speech on NSA "reforms". We were all ready to provide complete transparency about the current operating status of the Utah Data Center, but happily now it looks like we won't have to!
Instead, we are providing this nice wintry collection of recent photos of our data center:
Sadly, due to the MASSIVE ELECTRICAL PROBLEMS at the Utah Data Center, we missed our scheduled September 24th completion date and had to cancel our dedication ceremony.
We quietly uninvited our loyal partners at the local, state, and federal level who had the vision and fortitude to enable us to build this powerful Intelligence Community data center "for the good of the Nation".
WOW,,,,, Mormons are not only accused of being communist, but also of causing or being involved in all our problems concerning things like privacy and spying.
What do you suggest we do about them? The scum of the earth people should be eliminated from the face of the earth. I know, we already have the FEMA camps, lets throw them in there. Oh wait....... Already been tried. Remember that guy that started WW2 and the Japanese interment camps.