President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: stop saying "Mormon" or "LDS Church"

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/10/08/president-of-the-church-of-jes.html

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I can see the Mormons (tee-hee) wanting to present a consistent brand identity, but calling the nicknames “a major victory for Satan” is… kinda diminishing Satan, isn’t it? I mean, a major victory? What’s the Adversary’s next trick, tying someone’s shoes together?

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LOVED the sting in the tail of the article. Satan, you rock!

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The links at the bottom are beautifully present. Have a bonus point for making me snort.

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You can also read the entire speech at thechurchofjesuschristoflatterdaysaintsanddontyoudarecallusmormonsorldschurch.org

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Mormon! Mormon! Mormon! Mormon! Mormon! Mormon! Mormon! Mormon! Mormon! Hail, Eris! Hail, Discordia!

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Ha! That’s only because they tried and failed to trademark Mormon, and even pretended that they did have one for a while until everyone realized that they didn’t.


(The BBC story is weak, but I’m not going to dig for my posts the last time I dug into the subject. Too recursive!)

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They should’ve split the difference and made everyone write Mormon™ everywhere.

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I can never seem to get over the fact that I live on a planet where people still believe in such things.

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I forsee complications with that. https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Speyeria-mormonia

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I don’t know, the Mormon™ Fritillary Brought to you by Pepsi® sounds pretty plausible to me (though I may be currently 9/10ths of the way through an anthology of cyberpunk short stories)

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So I guess that passel of hymn-spewers is going to be known as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Tabernacle Choir? That’ll fit well on marquees.

Nah, just kidding. They’ve already renamed themselves! They’re now The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square. Still kind of a marquee-buster.

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Jesus Christ, what a Latter-day Saint!

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I call it “Bob.”

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You think that’s rough? Wait til they get a load of Mormon porn.

Rule 34 wins again!

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Did you just deadname a religion?

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So - it’s just the Tabernacle Choir now?

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Hail Sithis!

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Perhaps if the trademarked EXMO and FORMO fewer people would leave the church

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Does Cult work. Asking for a friend…

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