Posted on 07/10/2011 3:56:37 PM PDT by delacoert
Any Jewish people in Utah? There must be some. I wonder how they feel being considered “gentiles”?
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There are some. I made the mistake of calling a Jewish person a ‘gentile’ once and oh boy did I get a rant! I was afraid he was going to attack me and I probably deserved it.
Second, I think...someone here has been posting the same graphic, but the name escapes me right now.
Boy, I'll say!
TRUE.
You really should use that as a tagline, Nana!
For Mormons salvation is only found in Mormonism, it is all about the ‘Church’ not Christ and they do not believe that Christ can be found outside of Mormonism.
Which is why they make fun of Christians. I even had an LDS friend recently tell me that “the Church” is the only way to Christ, and she knows I used to be LDS.
Two brand new ones on this thread.
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I counted 3. Two who signed up today, and one with a ‘born on’ date of 6.26.11
Welcome N00b Romneybot to FR.
Let this welcome serve as a placemarker identifying you now for RINOmneyZotting later...
noob placemarker
Only in Park City
:^)
Some here will get the joke...
Read Item 13. You will see that Reaganaut is not just blowing smoke, although as an apostate, he has an intensity that us outsiders never attain.
As someone who lived in Utah, you will get this.
Last year, we were driving through Utah and like I always do when I’m in Utah, I was wearing a big cross and a Christian T-shirt (I tend to scream I’m not LDS with my clothing). Hubby is dressed more ‘normal’ for there. White western shirt, undershirt and jeans (which happened to be torn at and right above the knee).
We are at a Flying J truck stop south of Provo, I go in and go to the bathroom while he is getting gasoline. As I am coming out, a woman is walking in and sees my cross and shirt and turned as I walked past giving me a dirty look. It happens so I didn’t think much about it. I go to find hubby and as he is walking up to the front the clerk looks at him, looks at me then leans over the counter to look at hubby’s jeans. She was doing a ‘garment check’!
My poor husband (never Mormon btw and a wonderful Christian man), that was the first time he had ever noticed someone doing a garment check on him. We head back to the car and he is just aghast at what happened. The clerk saw his undershirt, saw my cross and shirt and was trying to figure out if he was LDS.
And you are right, apostates can have a rough time in Utah. I use our trips through there (about 2 a year) as an opportunity to witness and I love the looks on their faces when I tell them I used to live in Provo and go to BYU.
What’s a garment check?
A garment check is when a Mormon looks closely at the outline under your shirts and/or pants to see if you are wearing the LDS ‘holy garments’ or holy underwear. The men’s look like extra long boxer shorts and undershirts, while the women’s only look slightly different. You can google pictures of them online.
If you are wearing them you are recognized as a good, faithful Mormon who has taken certain oaths and learned the secret handshakes to get you into the highest level of Heaven that are taught in the Mormon temple.
Since my husband was wearing an undershirt and his jeans had holes above the knees the clerk was looking to see if she could see the holy underwear through the hole in hubby’s jeans.
Thanks for the link, I read the whole thing.
That was a nice freepmail, and I am glad that you knew how to use it on your second day here, but I don’t use freepmail (with very rare exceptions), and never in place of posting openly on the relevant threads.
You wouldn’t respond to me on the thread, but that is where you need to post to me if you want a response or to participate in the discussions here.
You are going to be REALLY busy; I predict.
I'm sure you are right about this.
Excellant analysis!
Brief and to the point.
And uncluttered with any annoying logic, too.
I just HATE when that happens!
Matthew 15:16
"Are you still so dull?" Jesus asked them.
Matthew 231. Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples:
2. "The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat.
3. So you must obey them and do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.
4. They tie up heavy loads and put them on men's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
5. "Everything they do is done for men to see: They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long;
6. they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues;
7. they love to be greeted in the marketplaces and to have men call them `Rabbi.'
8. "But you are not to be called `Rabbi,' for you have only one Master and you are all brothers.
9. And do not call anyone on earth `father,' for you have one Father, and he is in heaven.
10. Nor are you to be called `teacher,' for you have one Teacher, the Christ.
11. The greatest among you will be your servant.
12. For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
13. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.
14. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
15. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.
16. "Woe to you, blind guides! You say, `If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.'
17. You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred?
18. You also say, `If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gift on it, he is bound by his oath.'
19. You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
20. Therefore, he who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.
21. And he who swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells in it.
22. And he who swears by heaven swears by God's throne and by the one who sits on it.
23. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices--mint, dill and cummin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law--justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.
24. You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.
25. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
26. Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.
27. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean.
28. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
29. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.
30. And you say, `If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'
31. So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.
32. Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your forefathers!
33. "You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?
34. Therefore I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town.
35. And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
36. I tell you the truth, all this will come upon this generation.
37. "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing.
38. Look, your house is left to you desolate.
39. For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, `Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.' "
Mark 7:26-27
26. The woman was a Greek, born in Syrian Phoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.
27. "First let the children eat all they want," he told her, "for it is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs."
And St. Paul chimes in...
Galatians 5:12
As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!
Oh, we used to just run up to people and pinch their shirts on the upper arm.
Then say, "garment check!" and run off giggling...
They really hate that....:^p
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