Posted on 05/19/2010 9:41:03 AM PDT by greyfoxx39
You must listen to a lot of Muslims to recognize so easily they sound like...
What were you doing in the Mosque ???
What if two Mormons are already in the foxhole and don’t want to share it with a Catholic, or whatever you are?
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Then the two mormons would practice their tenet of blood atonement and cut the Catholics throat...
But as the mormons dont rush to join the US military, the Catholic would probably have a Baptist and a Jew for foxhole buddies...
Out for “atonement” today are we? ,-)
You are correct, as a group LDS do not join the military at the same rate as other “faiths”. They do join, just not at the same rate.
Yes. J. Reuben Clark was a high-ranking Mormon during WWII time...and he was quite an outspoken pacifist who obviously influenced many Mormons of his generation, who in turn passed it down.
I'm not sure how Mormons faired in serving in WWI -- but certainly they were represented.
And then there was George Romney (Cousin to Marion Romney, mormon apostle and a member of the first presidency)
He was Gov of Michigan and went with some other governors to Vietnam in 1965 and came back saying he supported the operation there.
Neither he nor any other gov developed any illness and they werte all for the war.
However later, when his son Mitt was about to be drafted George suddenly remembered that the visit caused him a nervous condition and that he had been “brainwashed” ...and as Gov he was in charge of the state draft board.
Due to George Romneys efforts Mormon boys in Michigan and Utah had deferments handed to them like candy...if they got a draft notice they were quickly deferred and sent on a “mission”
Georges own boy, Mitt, was drafted twice and dodged both times with the help of Big Daddy Geotge ...the first time Junior was sent to a cosy assignmernt in Paris for 2 1/2 years, living in a mansion and driving a Citreon...the 2nd time George packed him off to college...
Many mormon boys were “deferred” and dodged the draft during Nam...
Baptist boys...not so much...
No Romney has ever served in the US military...
In my SEVEN years in the US military during Nam I never met a mormon...
Years later, in 1877, I met one female mormon, who had just joined and she spent more time prostlysizing amongst the enlisted women that she did bothering about duty...
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Wow. You're older than you look!
1877 ,-)
1977
The mormon girl was so spacy she didnt know what century she was in
;)
I totally get that I only sorta remember 1977.
Well, if by NAM Nana meant the N.A.M. (Northwest American Mainland or Native American Mountainwar), then I suppose it's possible that 'Nana was in that battle of 1877 with the Nez Perce Native Americans in the Pacific NW...http://www.fs.fed.us/npnht/bibliography/video.shtml...
(If that's true, 'Nana, which side were you on? :) )
Oh, and BTW, Nana, if it was a mere typo, you should take the exemplary lead of literally DOZENS of Lds FReeper and non-FReeper "apologists" when they're caught "misspeaking." Your choices are:
(a) Crickets (this is the most popular Lds "handle")
(b) Attack the messenger...(go ahead, go right after our throats :) ... all three of us...svcw, Trisham, and me...be sure you toss out labels; judge our motives for pointing it out; go on the accusatory offensive; change the post subject so that we're no longer talking about 1877...)...this is fave tactic #2...
(c) Go into pure spin mode...Even if you weren't around in 1877, explain philosophically why it's potentially possible that your pre-existent spirit, which per Mormonism was around in 1877, must have briefly visited planet earth in a pre-incarnational visit...
(d) Just "Joey Smith" it...say something less outrageous than what you've said in the past by contrast, thereby making any other claims rather tame by comparison; say something like, "Hey, if some Nephite disciples have been on earth wandering around since the time of Christ, then what's the big deal claiming you were born before the Civil War?"
Actually as she handed out the book of mormon she told the other girls to “pray and the mormon god would tell them it was twoo”
She had the vibes of a New Ager...and just as delusional..
I found out she was asking the girls if they had a Christian Bible...
When they said “No” she gave them a bom...
I soonest told them “this is NOT a Bible”
I went over to the Christian Chapel got a wjhole lot of Bibles..and came back and exchanged the REAL Bibles for the book of mormon...
One girl told me that she thought the bom had some strange stuff in it...
LOL
I think Nana should pick #C.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Decisions, decisions...
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Or she might simply laugh in response, recognizing that it was but a gentle joke. What a concept! :)
Conservative women age well. :)
We certainly do.
Who posted this thread then? :-)
Hey buddy, get a life! Your Mormon bashing is tiresome.
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