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  • Anything by Randy Bachman, Gladys Knight, or the Osmonds is good, wholesome, and wonderful. Ditto for everyone on this site: http://www.famousmormons.net/ent.html And then there's the AquaBats . . .
  • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints /used to/ strongly discourage members from watching rated-r movies. Today, we are told to "seek entertainment that is wholesome and uplifting, and to avoid that which is otherwise." It is up to each individual to decide what is "wholesome and uplifting." It was interesting to teach this principle in Brazil, since Brazil doesn't have movie ratings. I ended up proposing the standard "would I feel comfortable watching this movie (playing this game / listening to this music) if Jesus were in the same room?" The spirit of the law is to avoid gratuitous profanity and violence, regardless of what rating the film / game has.
  • I don't see how teaching mormons that violence is OK or even needed is any worse than a mormon watching or litsening to something violent on their own..... Justified war As with the Bible, the Book of Mormon illustrates the use of violence as a defense against injustice.[citation needed] War is justified to overthrow an unjust government, or to prevent one from being established (Alma 46, 51). Justified murder or attempted murder Mormonism teaches that violence and even murder can be justified in certain situations, so long as the violence is commanded by God. The Book of Mormon contains an example where Nephi, the narrator of that part of the book, comes upon a drunken and passed-out Laban lying on the streets of Jerusalem (1 Ne. 4:7-8). Laban had previously stolen Nephi's family property and had refused to give Nephi an important set of brass plates Nephi's family needed for their voyage to the New World. Nephi was commanded by the Holy Spirit to remove Laban's sword and slay Laban so that he could obtain the brass plates (1 Ne. 9:18). Retribution Joseph Smith, Jr. did not teach blood atonement, but taught a "blood for blood" law of God's retribution, stating that if he could enact a death penalty law, "I am opposed to hanging, even if a man kill another, I will shoot him, or cut off his head, spill his blood on the ground and let the smoke ascend thereof up to God..." (Roberts 1909, p. 296).Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, was a strong proponent of capital punishment, and favored execution methods that involved the shedding of blood as retribution for crimes of bloodshed. In 1843, he or his scribe commented that the common execution method in Christian nations was hanging, "instead of blood for blood according to the law of heaven."[4] In a March 4, 1843 debate with church leader George A. Smith, who argued against capital punishment,[5] Smith said that if he ever had the opportunity to enact a death penalty law, he "was opposed to hanging" the convict; rather, he would "shoot him, or cut off his head, spill his blood on the ground, and let the smoke thereof ascend up to God" (Roberts 1909, p. 296). Right????????
  • Well as a Mormon I my take is that if nothing good comes of it than its not necessary for me to have in my life somethings are hard but I necessary. Anything that would influence or promote profanity or violence through music, film and video is not good.

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