Posted on 07/10/2011 3:56:37 PM PDT by delacoert
Now don't be pickin' on Spiff. For all we know his dog may have died.
WHY!?? do you torment me so??
You KNOW I can't eat meat 'til the weather turns cold!
--MormonDude(HMMmm... how 'cold' does it have to be? I think I'll ask headquarters)
SCISSORS
—MormonDude(HMMmm... how ‘cold’ does it have to be? I think I’ll ask headquarters)
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How many times must you be told
DONT BOTHER US !!!
Never met a Mormon in real life, read their philosophy. it’s not Christian, but I don’t see them as anti-Christian today.
Amen. They wouldn’t cross the street to piss on a burning man so long as the man on fire is a “gentile.” I’ll give them the same treatment in a voting booth. Mormons talk a nice game, but in reality they are clannish and shun those not of their same tribe. And they are unreasonably inflexible in any kind of business or legal negotiation.
More likely committed suicide.
Never met a Mormon in real life, read their philosophy. it’s not Christian, but I don’t see them as anti-Christian today.
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They deliberately do not appear that way to ‘gentiles’ but to each other and in their own circles they are very much ‘anti christian’.
A couple of years ago, a couple of LDS missionaries were caught (they took the pictures themselves) desecrating a Catholic shrine and chapel.
When I was LDS we used to constantly make fun of ‘gracers’ or ‘reborns’. We would even have mock “Christian” services and ‘baptisms’ in the swimming pool at our apartment complex.
In short, every Mormon I knew thought Christians (esp Evangelicals) were stupid while we (the LDS) were the smart ones who had a monopoly on ‘truth’.
Of course, we would never do this (or rarely) in front of the Christian or other gentiles since it might make ‘the Church’ look bad and that was the unforgivable sin.
And then there are the quotes (some of them not that old) about how Christians are apostates and of the devil and blind and dumb.
We visited good friends (mormons) in Rexburg, Idaho a few years ago. (Their brand new temple was just about to open up.)
The local Protestant church was small but nice. As visitors and on the young side with kids I felt like a rock star. It was sad - no doubt the population was shrinking. There were perhaps 20 folks there, all over 60. The preacher even asked of it would be okay for our kids to come up so he could do a “children’s sermon”. Even though our kids were borderline age-wise they went up. And the whole congregation loved the “children’s sermon” which I suppose they haven’t heard in a long time.
I commented on the beautiful front doors the church had. The preacher said “Yes - it was worth the trouble to finally get them in.” I asked him what the trouble was and he said “It’s a long story”.
I asked another gentleman and he said they ordered the doors from some door place in Utah that also supplied a list of installers throughout the areas. When the doors arrived to the church, they called the local installer and he said he would be out on Monday. Well, Monday afternoon came and he never showed up so they called him. He just got a big job and wouldn’t be able to install them.
They called all of the other places and no one would come install them. I’m not sure why they needed a special installer, but they finally found some guy from far away to come out to install them. That guy was not a mormon. Seems the mormon door company had mormon employees in most of their service areas, and they would not intall the doors on a Christian church.
The guy said it was pretty much impossible to get a job at any decent local company in town if you weren’t a mormon. He said it was good that a Walmart opened in town as they weren’t as bad on the discrimination.
It was weird spending so much time in a town where you were an “outsider”.
I did not know this -- I just googled it and found here
The men have also been accused of breaking the head off of a statue of saint at the Shrine of the Mexican Martyrs in San Luis, Colorado.In 2006, three missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) visited a Catholic shrine in the San Luis Valley in Colorado. While at the shrine, the Mormon missionaries photographed themselves in poses that demeaned the Catholic Church.
The pictures, which were posted last week on the photo-sharing site Photobucket, show the men preaching from the Book of Mormon behind the altar; holding the head from a statue of St. Manuel Morales, a young Mexican who died opposing anti-religious laws; and one of the missionaries pretending to sacrifice a fellow missionary on the altar.
Thanks for explaining
I don't want to get into the details of the Mormon fight. I don't have expert knowledge of the subject.
I do know that anyone who thinks that either the Pilgrims of Plymouth or the Puritans of Massachusetts came to New England for freedom of religion has failed to understand some of the most basic principles of the English Separatist and Puritan movements.
I'm well aware that the Founding Fathers wrote a Constitution that was deliberately designed to tolerate not just a variety of Protestant viewpoints but also the Roman Catholics of Maryland and even the Jewish population, which had personal ties with Alexander Hamilton. Both groups included a number of American patriots who were very interested in supporting the American Revolution, and the ardent support of religious minority groups for American independence was a key factor in framing the federal Constitution to preserve their freedoms.
I support the Founding Fathers’ views on religious tolerating, while noting that three states still had formally established tax-supported state churches at that time, one of them into the 1830s.
To read that view of the Constitution back into the Pilgrims and Puritans, however, simply does not agree with the facts.
Those who hold office or serve in the military swear allegience to the Constitution of the United States, not the Mayflower Compact. There are important differences.
Sorry. Maybe you guys have just sucked all the energy out of me. Or maybe all the 100 degree weather is getting to me.
Hard to pick on my group. It’s the Truth.
The local Protestant church was small but nice. As visitors and on the young side with kids I felt like a rock star. It was sad - no doubt the population was shrinking.
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that is sad, and surprising.
The Mormon church has been hemorrhaging members for the last 15 years or so and all of the evangelical churches I know in Utah are growing, many faster than they can integrate. I heard from a friend that the Calvary chapel in SLC tripled in size last year alone - I would expect similar things in Rexburg (which has a great pizza buffet btw).
The story about the door does not surprise me at all. A common phrase you used to hear about UT/Idaho as ‘behind the Zion curtain’, and in some ways it is, if you are not LDS you don’t matter, if you are EX-LDS you either keep it quiet or expect serious harassment.
I would go for job interviews and people would ask what ward( Mormon congregation)I was in. Mormons hire Mormons, rent to Mormons, buy from Mormons...they don’t trust or like ‘gentiles’ (outsiders).
The article itself is very telling. Notice the Mormon plays the victim card and the church spokesman doesn’t apologize for what they did, just the destruction of the property.
“I realize that my companions and I have made a mockery of that which is most sacred to many of the residents of San Luis and the rest of the world. I should have known better because I have seen many of the same types of blasphemies made against my own church and I have been appalled,” the statement read.
A statement from the LDS church went further to address the vandalism: “We are deeply saddened to hear that the actions of three missionaries have resulted in the destruction of property.”
Be careful when running
Then you are amoung the millions who have accepted their PR campaign as gospel.
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