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How (Not) to Understand What Mormons Believe
Religion Dispatches ^ | December 22, 2011 | Joanna Brooks

Posted on 12/25/2011 9:37:50 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 12/25/2011 9:37:56 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Attending a university in Utah for 5 years has shown me all I need to know about mormonism. I wouldn’t join it for money, fame, or threats. But everybody’s gotta do their own thing.

I don’t give a fat crap that Romney is a moe, I don’t want him as the R nominee because of his positions on issues.


2 posted on 12/25/2011 9:49:45 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

People that follow an Angel called “Moron-I” are Moronites..
Joseph Smith must’ve been mocking his new followers..


3 posted on 12/25/2011 9:50:33 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Harry Reid is a Mormon.
Nancy Polosi is a Catholic.
Religious labels mean nothing.


4 posted on 12/25/2011 9:57:01 PM PST by Red Badger (Every child should have a meadow to play in..............)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Harry Reid is a Mormon.
Nancy Polosi is a Catholic.
Religious labels mean nothing.


5 posted on 12/25/2011 9:57:16 PM PST by Red Badger (Every child should have a meadow to play in..............)
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To: Red Badger

Harry Reid is a Mormon.
Nancy Polosi is a Catholic.
Religious labels mean nothing.

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And Obama is a Muslim, by his own admission.
But THAT does mean something with him in the Oval Office.
Mormons and Catholics are not sworn enemies of the Western world and of “infidels”. Muslims are.

So a “religous label” can mean something.


6 posted on 12/25/2011 10:02:48 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: hosepipe

I’ve had a few of them try to “educate” me on history according to the Book of Mormon. Gotta be kidding me, it is the biggest crock ever. They claim they converted all the Indians but any televised footage of Conference that I’ve ever seen before changing the channel is a sea of white people, so I gotta wonder where they all went. And, for all the credit that they take for building the pyramids in Central and South America, they sure build boring temples these days. That learning not only stopped, it took giant strides backwards.


7 posted on 12/25/2011 10:03:11 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: EagleUSA

Only if you count Islam as actually being a religion.......


8 posted on 12/25/2011 10:13:15 PM PST by Red Badger (Every child should have a meadow to play in..............)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t know what Mormons believe, but I do know that the LDS Church is now 100% behind amnesty for illegal aliens, that they are in opposition to their own precepts in doing so, but that Mormons are not permitted to express disagreement with this traitorous, immoral new mandate from on high.


9 posted on 12/25/2011 10:14:05 PM PST by montag813 (http://www.StandWithArizona.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The article has no substance. It’s like a person pointing to a purse and saying “There’s stuff in there”, but he doesn’t say what.


10 posted on 12/25/2011 10:27:33 PM PST by lurk
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I had Christmas dinner earlier with a Mormon family. The ham was very good.

Nice folks. Don’t want to kill me. Or you.

Conservatives? The whole group was tonight. One much more than me and that’s saying a lot.

Been around Mormons pretty constantly for awhile. They know I do not want to be one myself. No problem.


11 posted on 12/25/2011 10:57:13 PM PST by isthisnickcool (Sharia? No thanks!)
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Cool. And you lived to tell about it. Only the Amish are more feared.


12 posted on 12/25/2011 11:02:23 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: isthisnickcool

+1 and they are terrific people to hang out with.


13 posted on 12/26/2011 12:29:13 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Liberty Valance

Damn the Amish! /S

They are terrific people as well.


14 posted on 12/26/2011 12:30:56 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: lurk
The article has no substance. It’s like a person pointing to a purse and saying “There’s stuff in there”, but he doesn’t say what.

Ding-ding-ding! We have a winnah!

Regards,

15 posted on 12/26/2011 12:42:12 AM PST by alexander_busek
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I really don’t know much about Mormons except that they’re generally good people, family oriented and who tend to take care of their own.

I also know that they hold some very strange beliefs that very much bring into doubt the ability of any Mormon GOP candidate to achieve the backing of the Evngelical community in this country. IMHO, the Evangelicals will not turn out to vote for a Mitt Romney in the numbers that any other Republican candidate would easily achieve. And the more we learn about these odd beliefs the fewer Evangelical votes we can expect from them next November - if we nominate a Morman candidate.

Obama understands this.

The MSM understands this.

So expect the Dem/MSM Axis of Evil to support Romney until his nomination is assured, suppres any discussion of strange Mormon beliefs until that time and then go “all in” with 24/7 coverage of “What You Need to Know about Mormons” .

If you are a Dem with a disastrous record to run on, that’s not a bad strategy.


16 posted on 12/26/2011 4:36:13 AM PST by InterceptPoint (TIN)
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To: InterceptPoint

I agree that the media will come out with guns a-blazing over Romey’s faith. They can’t stand any true commitment to religious belief.

On the other hand, I think they are hedging their bets by keeping mum on Gingrich’s considerable baggages. If he gets the nomination, expect nonstop coverage of his checkered sexual history.


17 posted on 12/26/2011 5:26:28 AM PST by Burkean (.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths." - 2 Timothy 4:3,4

God's Word is clear. Those who worship Joseph Smith or the Virgin Mary are believing what works for them in this world, not God's truth. They are creating their own eternal fate.

18 posted on 12/26/2011 5:34:26 AM PST by Dr. Thorne (Fall on your knees before Christ, your only salvation!)
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can you name me someone who worships the Virgin Mary?

i have never met anyone who does or heard of anyone who does, yet i read the charge all the time.


19 posted on 12/26/2011 6:00:28 AM PST by one Lord one faith one baptism
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To: hosepipe

Just take the ‘m’ out of ‘Mormon’ and you get the same thing!


20 posted on 12/26/2011 6:16:15 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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