Didn’t Jesus himself teach Christians to pray for those who persecute them and offered forgiveness to those who crucified him as he was dying n the cross? If Mormons want to do something similar so what. These pious acts are far preferable than for Muslims to declare death and vengeance against someone who may have “offended” their religion with a cartoon or “desecrated” their Koran.
Didn’t Jesus himself teach Christians to pray for those who persecute them and offered forgiveness to those who crucified him as he was dying n the cross? If Mormons want to do something similar so what.
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Because it is NOT similar. This isn’t praying for those who persecute Mormons, rather the Mormons slit their throats or sent out assassins in the early days, now they file lawsuits, issue death threats, vandalize, etc. They don’t offer forgiveness to anyone who leaves, just ask other ex-mo’s.
This is Mormons going through these (rather lame and) elaborate rituals acting AS THE PERSON. In order to even to that, which is only open to about 15%, they must jump through all these hoops to be spiritually worthy and pass all these tests. Once they do that and obtain a Temple Recommend, then they ACT AS CHRIST by saving these people because you cannot be saved without these specifically Mormon rites.
BTW, Mormons also reject the cross and often come back with “well if Jesus was beheaded would you wear a guillatine around your neck?” To them the cross was only because he had to die simply to be resurrected, it has nothing really to do with salvation (except when they define salvation ONLY as resurrection which is universal).
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Do you consider Muslims taking your PHYISCAL life less harmful than MORMONism stealing your soul?