Am I the Only One, Who Thinks That Mormonism is As Strange As Hinduism?

[pinochet]

Many conservatives love to laugh at black American radicals who celebate Kwanzaa, by pointing out that the founder of the holiday, Maulana Karenga, was a convicted criminal who loved to abuse women. About 170 years ago, mainstream American Christians used to mock Joseph Smith in the same way.

Joseph Smith's career was just as colorful as that of Karenga. Smith began his career as a magician and fortune teller, and he claimed he could tell the future by staring at a Crystal Ball. In 1826, he was tried and convicted of fraud. The success of his Mormon religion, makes him the most successful conman in American history. I wonder whether, 100 years from today - will Maulana Karenga be honored and respected as a founder of a major world religion?

If Prophet Muhammad could do it, and if Joseph Smith could do it, then why can't Maulana Karenga? If, in the future, Karenga's supporters become a majority in one state, and are able to elect a Governor, two Senators, and several Congressmen, wouldn't they become "respectable"?

A brief biography of Joseph Smith: http://www.mindspring.com/~renewal/JosephSmith.html

[Graybeard58]

Am I the Only One, Who Thinks That Mormonism is As Strange As Hinduism?

Possibly.

To me and many others, it's much stranger.

[Graybeard58]

Only I wouldn't say "strange". Weird is more accurate.

[muawiyah]

Hinduism does have the "cow thing", but we just had the "horse thing". Our Congress had decided it was better to simply starve old or injured horses to death by turning them loose in public lands ~ rather than euthanize them and pay $1500 to bury the carcasses.

You can tell me all about horse worship.

Note, Hinduism has at its core a whole series of ancient stories that seem to have their roots in the pre-Abrahamic traditions reflected in the Old Testament.

To a degree it's not strange at all.

[joinedafterattack]

Axelrod, is that you stirring the pot on this website?

Go back to your CPUSA blog.

[kjo]

The full anti-Mormon stuff hasn’t even started yet...and probably won’t until he has the nomination. Think it’s a coincidence that there’s a Broadway play just now about the “silly” religion?

Couple that with “vulture capitalism” and his “let’s play nice with Obama” at the debates...Romney’s toast.

Next year at this time we’ll be saying...”why didn’t we just nominate a conservative?”

[Graybeard58]

You've been here 8 days longer than I have, I'll bow to your choice of words.

[Jukeman]

Mormonism is a cult religion. Basically, one has to purchase salvation through the elders of the church.

[2nd Amendment]

Mormonism is definitely NOT aChristian sect! ala Jesus and Lucifer were brothers, Mormon armor, spirit babies, lamanites, goal of becoming God, temple molestation, Mountain Meadows Massacre, etc. But I have lived in predominantly Mormon communities out wEST. tHEY ARE ALMOST UNIFORMLY CONSERVATIVE, PRO-aMERICA, pRO-FAMILY GOOD-HEARTED PEOPLE. i GUESS THEY ARE BORN INTO it and don’t know anybetter.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Oh, no, Hindus only have 350 million gods and goddesses.

Mormonism has an infinite number - with more made all the time. They have an annual Spring Fling at Kolob Beach.

[stuartcr]

Of course you’re not the only one, otherwise you wouldn’t have posted this here.

[omega4412]

Good people, weird theology.

[FrankR]

[DJ Taylor]

"Hinduism is a really strange religion"

Why does this make me think of the kettle calling the pot strange? (or something like that}

Let's go read the Book of Revelation and then we can really talk about strangeness.

[AlmaKing]

Are we a nation of religious tolerance or do we sanctify only Christianity? Anyone practicing a different religion isn’t worth a crap?

Is America a La Cosa Nostra for Christians?

Shall I tell my Buddhist wife that she’s unacceptable to Americans because of her Buddhist beliefs?

My mother was Pentacostal. That’s a cult. Her whole day was spent worrying about ‘the church’, putting everything second to the ‘pastor’. That church also liked to empty your pockets in the name of God.

[null and void]

The success of his Mormon religion, makes him the most successful conman in American history.

Compared to Obama? Naaahhh!

[Laserman]

The anti-Mormon bigots on FR make me ashamed of FR. Why don’t we focus on Obama and his failures, and Romney and his liberal ideas, and the destruction such ideas have wrought on this country rather than the pros and cons of Mormonism?

[pallis]

I’ve always thought of it as a mixture of Islam, Mason occultism, with a little pagan mythology, Jewish romanticism and gnosticism mixed together, but that might be giving too much credit to Joseph Smith who began his flim-flamming by staring at rocks in his hat.

[Graybeard58]

"Hinduism is a really strange religion"

In your post to me, you put the above quote in Italics, as if I said it - I didn't.

[Drill Thrawl]

Yeah it has it's quirks but they all do. I think it is important to have a faith to believe in regardless of the type. To me they all seem as a variation on a theme and we choose the one that makes the most sense to us and that best fits our experiences, hopes and dreams. So I really don't care what faith you practice.

The exception being islam. That is just some pure evil shiite.