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              Oh yeah, if you have old BoM before some of the fun changes. Watchtowers would be fun too, only have got read through PDFs.

              (I have training manuals for Mormon missionaries, the textbook on Seventh Day Adventist history as used in Seventh Day Adventist colleges, and watch the Left Behind with Kirk Cameron at least once a year or so.)

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                Wow, you might be serious.

                I used to keep tabs on the weird religious stuff for fun, but most of it turns my stomach these days to the point that I can’t even laugh at it.

                Definitely got super drunk and riffed on Kirk Cameron videos back when he had that Way of the Master series (e.g. the banana video).

                I used to have a copy of Dianetics that you would have thoroughly enjoyed.

                You should try to acquire a copy of a Mormon seminary textbooks. There should be a series of four of them: Old Testament, New Testament, Book of Mormon, and Doctrine and Covenants/Church History (this is one is a gold mine). The Mormons apparently make them available as PDFs for the current versions, but the older ones are sure to be better.

                I’ve got you tagged now as “collects weird religious stuff”. Congrats.

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                  The most immediately accessible gems of the collection.

                  I have a genuinely Scientology folder thing for a course and a Spanish DVD of Dianetics, but that’s at a friends.

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                    Bibleman and A History of Christian Hymnody are wildly different theological materials; what’s the criteria for your collection?

                    Do you study religions or is the there something else, like an aesthetic thing, that drives your collection?

                    Also, how much of this have you read and is there any of it that you believe?

                    Sorry for the barrage of questions, but I find the notion of collecting cult and religious media to be fascinating, especially if it’s for reasons other than faith.

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        Wow. I did not know of this. Thanks for posting. It’s kind of frightening knowing it’s a real comic for the purpose you mentioned. I used to be religious (as a kid) but have never come across these (thankfully).

        I can’t comment further on the subject matter, other than: Christianity (well at least some [most?] of it) is a terrible invention.

        Glad I’m far removed from it now.