In the first place, concerning your accusation about there being a “chip on my shoulder,” I don't give a d_mn about your anti-Mormonism. It affects me not one iota. I would just like people not to be misinformed, I would like to improve and make FR more effective, and I would like to see the conservatives quit eating each other so we can win next time.
Also, let me tell you that your stupid anti_Mormonism is quite ineffective. Catholics are fond of saying that the blood of the martyrs is the life blood of the church. In other words, attacks actually have a positive effect. Mormons have been severely attacked, and yet there are over 13 million Mormons now. It doesn't seem to hinder their growth. Honest, spiritual people are repulsed by such antics. I have heard several people say that is what got them interested in Mormonism.
There seems to be a Providence that works that way too. Mormons were driven out of Missouri. Fortunately, that meant they were not around when the Civil War started. The first year of the war about half of the battles were fought in Missouri. The place was devastated. They were then driven out of Illinois. As a result they moved to a place where they could more easily develop without interference. On their way west, the US Army asked 500 of their desperately needed men to go help in the War with Mexico. As a result of that sacrifice they were in California and participated in the discovery of gold. They took some of the first creaming from the mines back to Utah, and that helped the Mormons to survive in the wilderness. When that gold was spent bringing in needed supplies, the Mormons again became destitute. Fortunately, they were persecuted again by Pres. Buchanan sending an army out to put them in subjection. The Mormons put straw in all their houses and told the army if they stopped in Salt Lake, all the houses would go up in flames and the Mormons would move to Mexico. As a result, the army camped out of Salt Lake 20 miles or so. However, the army needed supplies for themselves to survive. That meant they had to buy their supplies from the Mormons. In other words, the Mormons had captured customers, and made enough by that to continue surviving until the railroad came through. In other words, I take it that Providence disapproves of one people persecuting another and makes things work out to even the accounts.
Now let me say something about your accusation that Mormonism is “an heretical Christianity lookalike cult.” How the he!! would you know. We have brains just as you do. We can reason just as you can. We read the Bible just as you do. And we are just as spiritually sensitive as you are. A lot of Mormons are of the opinion that your are wrong. And they feel pity for you. I accuse you of arrogance. Not everyone who says Lord Lord . . .
And as I said to you once before, we are seeing America become Marxist daily before our very eyes, and all you want to do is play cutesy with anti-Mormonism. God help us from people like you.
Typically, you slide back and forth between mormonism and mormon. Pathetic, but example of the very thing you try to claim you do not have, a huge chip on your personal shouldert. Try reasoning clearly next time.
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“and yet there are over 13 million Mormons now.
You’re still using the official New LDS Math
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_2890645 - active members are more like 4 million. Not much different than Scientology.
Yet, you can't see the distinction between anti-Mormonism and anti-Mormon. Doesn't speak highly of your reasoning abilities.
I carry the same distinction with Muslims and Islam. I hate Islam as a system of evil. I don't hate the individual Muslims (except certain violent extremists) who are the victims of the evil system. I'd be curious to hear how the Mormons would differ on this view of Muslims and Islam.