Posted on 06/19/2012 4:51:24 AM PDT by Conservative Vermont Vet
Commentators on both the right and left and both secular and religious note with disdain that Mormons (Latter Day Saints, as Mormons refer to themselves) have irrational practices and beliefs. The former, we are told, includes the wearing of sacred undergarments and the latter includes posthumous baptisms and the claims by the prophet of Mormonism to have found and deciphered engraved golden plates in New York State.
I read and hear these dismissals of Mormonism with some amusement — because everyone who makes these charges holds beliefs and/or practices that outsiders consider just as irrational.
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Textbook example of poisoning the well.
When you get back from your daughter's driver's education course, may be you'll be ready to discuss some issues, instead of throwing around insults.
‘Joseph Smith or the sword!’ (History of the Church, Vol. 3, p. 167)
**Just a suggestion, I might serve you well to actually know about mormonism before you defend it.
The Mormon problem is its total rejection of the One True God and of Jesus Christ as His Only Begotten Son.
Mormonism is morally relativistic, claiming that each planet inhabited by sentient beings has its own God, a former Mormon. Thiis is not simply irrational. It is obscene.
Romney is, by his own religious beliefs, morally opportunistic. His ambition, according to his own belief system, is to achieve sufficient approbation on this earth to deem him worthy of Godhood after his earthly demise. Hence, he needs to become President in order to fulfill his religious ambitions.
With Romney we are saddled with a man who has no moral proportions. He is a Judas, willing to bend to whatever wind blows most favorably for himself.
With Obama we have a demon, committed to the destruction of western civilization.
Which is preferable? I say neither. In the end I would prefer to go to war against demons than to struggle with a pretender who can not be depended upon to stand for what is right.
>>When you get back from your daughter’s driver’s education course, may be you’ll be ready to discuss some issues, instead of throwing around insults. <<
No need to feel insulted, unless you find yourself to be a nutter who cut and pastes long, colorful posts and fall to encouraged sarcasm.
Is that you?
I want to live in a Judeo/Christian country where the men know that before God, men and women are equal.
I am thankful and enjoy my safety in America where honorable men protect women from Sharia Law and Mormon theology.
Though it may seem irrational to the outside observer, at least the Real Presence is a perfectly scriptural doctrine taught by Christ:
54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
59 These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
John 6:54-60
Though it may seem irrational to the outside observer, at least the Real Presence is a perfectly scriptural doctrine taught by Christ:
54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
59 These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
John 6:54-60
So that which you don't know is better than that which you do? The leap of logic that would take is suicidal.
Ignorance is not a virtue.
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