What I don't believe is your protestation of NOT being mormon. The "defense" you have provided here is an illustration to all that your claim pegs the hogwash meter.
Posted on 06/11/2011 6:41:16 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus
COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS, Utah — On Christmas Day in 1964, the day before Darius A. Gray was to be baptized as a Mormon, he learned that the church would not allow a black man, like him, to be in the priesthood.
“I was not amused,” Mr. Gray recalled with a rueful smile.
It was last Saturday, and we were sitting with about 300 other Mormons, including dozens of children, at the annual picnic of the Genesis Group, a social organization for black Mormons and their friends. Some were Latino or American Indian, and nearly half were white, the parents and siblings of adopted black children. It was the most racially integrated church event I had ever attended.
Having been introduced to Mormonism by kindly white neighbors in his hometown of Colorado Springs, the teenage Darius read his way through much of the scripture of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He had no idea about the racist church policy. His newfound faith was badly shaken.
“I went home and prayed,” Mr. Gray said. “And I received a personal revelation, an inspiration from God: ‘This is the restored Gospel, and you are to join.’ So the next day, I entered into the waters of baptism. Then the next day I went to church as a member for the first time.” And a little girl addressed him using a certain racial epithet. That was a first, too.
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You're weirder than the cultists you hate.
You’re the best.
I guess religious bigotry is OK though, and it's OK to attack people's religion?
Seems pretty personal to me.
And I am not a Mormon, and don't care about them one way or the other.
I guess I just pay more than lip service to the idea of "freedom of religion."
I restored your post 55. My mistake, I thought this thread was posted on the Religion Forum where different guidelines apply. To read those guidelines click on my profile page.
Still name calling; trying to avoid the FACT that you seem to have no EVIDENCE?
You ARE an ACCUSER with NO evidence.
You ARE an ACCUSER of ANTI-MORMIONism fighters; and that kinda says SOMETHING else about you...
You ARE an ACCUSER of ANTI-MORMONism fighters; and that kinda says SOMETHING else about you...
Is it WORKING yet?
sO yOu AdMiT yOu DoN't BeLiEvE iN FrEeDoM oF rElIgIon.
How totalitarian of you.
BookMark
What I don't believe is your protestation of NOT being mormon. The "defense" you have provided here is an illustration to all that your claim pegs the hogwash meter.
Quite the hater, aren't you?
Catholic parochial school, Dominican nuns, Jesuit high school.
I believe in freedom of religion. Simple as that.
You believe in shoving your beliefs down other people's throats and telling them they're going to Hell if they don't agree with you.
Good luck with that.
f MORMONism was NOT a heresy; there might be something to discuss.
So what shall we do?
Burn them at the stake?
Willard ain’t going to be President.
You got your pink panties in a wad over nothing.
Sane people like us need not waste our time on these boards;leave these people to their distorted musings.
Would you include the 52,000 mormon bike riders that bang on your door at dinner?
Show since you made the claim that anyone on FR has said mormons cannot practice whatever religion they want.
Anyone reading this thread can see just WHO it is that is "shoving your beliefs down other people's throats and telling them they're going to Hell if they don't agree with you"..that is you!.
BTW, "shoving your beliefs down other people's throats and telling them they're going to Hell if they don't agree with you." is a perfect description of the mormon missionary program, being carried out 24/7 worldwide by 52,000 missionaries on the ground and muilti-million dollar campaigns on TV and radio, not to mention countless misleading and false internet posts.
The fact that this PR campaign is being met with resistance on FR by those of us who "believe in freedom of religion" and freedom to rebut the lies of certain religions has folks like you just wetting your garmies.
We've seen this mormon mantra "freedom for me but not for thee" on FR for years. We'll continue to show the hypocrisy of the argument for years to come.
I don't read psychopath.
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