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The Truth About Mormonism
townhall.com ^ | April 15, 2012 | Stephen Smoot

Posted on 04/15/2012 9:22:28 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Elsie
My great unpublished work involves Wooly Worms.

The one in the white lab coat has the same interest!

But I believe that her's involves a taste test.



141 posted on 04/16/2012 1:07:33 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: bert; greyfoxx39; Elsie
We visited the town of Nauvoo Illinois where the Mormons have created a living museum and visitor center. I met an wonderfully gracious gentlemen volunteer from Alabama who knowing I was not of his faith led us through the history of the movement west. They have made a great effort to preserve the heritage of that westward movement. It seems those intolerant souls who murdered Joseph Smith are still alive and well in America today.

Did you know, Bert, that Joseph Smith went down in a gun battle??? (Did your tour hosts forget to mention that wee little fact???)

He used up one gun -- and had another loaded gun...

Are you consistent then?

If a prisoner were to today -- in your local jail -- get ahold of two loaded weapons...and he was to die in proximity to 200 armed men (non-prisoners)...all as he fires at least 6 shots...that's not a gun battle either...just because the ratio is 200:1?

Whatever your squeamishness about it, ya gotta understand it that it's usually portrayed as a martyrdom. I'm sorry, but sacrificial lambs don't go down shooting & killing people as did Joseph Smith.

142 posted on 04/16/2012 1:08:12 PM PDT by Colofornian ( The Romneybots are political descendents of Esau: Trading a FR inheritance for a 'lentil soup' guy)
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To: bert; Colofornian
It is none of your business what others believe.

When "others" are attempting to take over the position of POTUS, it damn sure IS my business...or do you think it's not YOUR business what Obama believes?

143 posted on 04/16/2012 1:25:20 PM PDT by greyfoxx39 (I do not expect the (FR) house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided-Jim Robinson)
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To: webheart

[The whole poking at the Planet Kolob seems a little underhanded ]

It’s a religious FRAUD in the context of a religious concoction that is RIDDLED with fraud.

Just like the other Islam.


144 posted on 04/16/2012 4:58:35 PM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: freedomlover

>>Here, here!

[ElvisPeasantVoice-ON]

Thankyou. Thankyouverymuch.

[ElvisPeasantVoice-OFF]


145 posted on 04/16/2012 5:07:07 PM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: Colofornian; bert
Did you know, Bert, that Joseph Smith went down in a gun battle??? (Did your tour hosts forget to mention that wee little fact???)




JESUS: Hey Smith!       Remember that boast you made about doing more than even I had done to hold the 'church' together?

JOSEPH SMITH: Where am I?

JESUS: Don't you remember? A few seconds ago you were in that jail.

JOSEPH SMITH: Oh; yeah; but where am I NOW?

JESUS: Don't you remember? Does bang - bang ring a bell?

JOSEPH SMITH: Oh; yeah - that crummy gun I had was about USELESS!

JESUS: I hope you left instructions on how to hold your church together.

JOSEPH SMITH: Dang! I knew there was SOMETHING I was forgetting!

JESUS: Looks like there's a power struggle going on down there.

JOSEPH SMITH: Yeah; there was always SOMEone who wanted the power that I held - especially over the LADIES - wink wink.

JESUS: No need to worry about that now; remember what my friend Matthew wrote down?

JOSEPH SMITH: This? “At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven” (Matthew 22:30)

JESUS: That's it.

JOSEPH SMITH: I thought that was mistranslated.

JESUS: Nah - it was right.

JOSEPH SMITH: Oh well; it was fun while it lasted. My buds will still get it on with the girls.

JESUS: Uh; I'm sorry; in just a few more years; your followers will cavein to the United States government and abandon the 'Eternal Covenant' that you came up with.

JOSEPH SMITH: ME!? YOU are the one that told me to do that!

JESUS: Sorry; but you must have mistranslated what I told you. What part of Do NOT commit ADULTERY did you not understand?

JOSEPH SMITH: mumble....

JESUS: What did you say?

JOSEPH SMITH: Oh, nothing.

JESUS: Well; it was interesting talking to you; but now I must get back to perparing a place for those who believe in Me.

JOSEPH SMITH: Oh, yeah; the Celestial Kingdom.

JESUS: No...

JOSEPH SMITH: The Telestial one?

JESUS: Nope.

JOSEPH SMITH: SUREly not the TERRESTRIAL one!!

JESUS: Nope. Didn't you read that the mind of man had NOT conceived of it? Paul wrote it down in 1 Corinthians 2:9.

JOSEPH SMITH: I thought that was mistranslated.

JESUS: No; it wasn't.

JOSEPH SMITH: You SURE?

JESUS: Yes. Now I must be going: what did you say your name was again?

JOSEPH SMITH: Joseph Smith.

JESUS: Hmmmm. According to my Heavenly FAITHbook, you didn't sign in as one of my friends - sorry, I never knew you.

JOSEPH SMITH: But.... 

146 posted on 04/17/2012 5:13:15 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Elsie
 

JOSEPH SMITH: Oh; yeah - that crummy gun I had was about USELESS!

 


147 posted on 04/17/2012 5:18:16 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: webheart
>>Wow.
 
Well, since you brought that up...

Twinkle Twinkle, Morning Star

 

Homage to Stanley Kubrick's 2001 - A Space Odyssey.
Sans the Eclipse, of course.
Prometheus, Lucifer,
Morning Star,
Sun

"WoW"
 
 

148 posted on 04/17/2012 6:27:36 AM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: Elsie

“Travesty....... your trash uses up all the band width of my monthly payment.

If you would cease the Mormon trash, the Freepathon would end early

Nobody reads the multocolored crap you post”


What’s this “multocolored” crap I’m hearing about? Elsie have you discovered some new HTML code?


149 posted on 04/17/2012 7:28:38 AM PDT by freedomlover (Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
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To: bert; greyfoxx39
It seems those intolerant souls who murdered Joseph Smith are still alive and well in America today.

Yes, smith was murdered - but you leave out the 'rest of the story' don't you. Why was he jailed? He was jailed because he illegally ordered the destruction of a newspaper that exposed his polygamy and other less religious dealings as the 'general' of Nauvoo. Now how "tolerant" was that bert? smith also sent his danite raiders out to harass and kill those who left the mormon church in light of his extravagant living and dictatorial leadership - sounds real tolerant as well eh bert? Nauvoo was a dictatorship, nothing less, by smith. His jailing for treason was just the tip of the iceberg.

And since you mentioned scouting - until 1978 black boys in lds sponsored boy scout troops were not allowed to hold positions of leadership in the troop, such as patrol leader, sr. patrol leader, etc simply because they were black. How outstanding was that bert, wonderful contribution huh.

Finally, much of that 'westward movement' though interesting has been severly whitewashed. Gone is young's boondoggle 'handcart' escapade where he forced them to buy cheaply made carts and participate in poorly organized groups by "god's direction" as the prophet. Or his direction to slaughter a wagon train passing through southern Utah headed for Oregon as well as harassing several others.

Excellent people - right - as how nice they were to the flds who asked them for books of mormon a couple of years ago.

150 posted on 04/17/2012 8:27:08 AM PDT by Godzilla (3/7/77)
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To: freedomlover
What’s this “multocolored” crap I’m hearing about? Elsie have you discovered some new HTML code?

The Avatar of MORMONism?

151 posted on 04/17/2012 9:02:16 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: freedomlover
What’s this “multocolored” crap I’m hearing about? Elsie have you discovered some new HTML code?

The Zoot Suit of MORMONism?

152 posted on 04/17/2012 9:02:59 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Godzilla
Yes, smith was murdered - but you leave out the 'rest of the story' don't you.

Not even TRAYVON was 'murdered'.

JS had a GUN!!

153 posted on 04/17/2012 9:04:25 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Godzilla
Why was he jailed?

He was jailed because he illegally ordered the destruction of a newspaper that exposed his polygamy and other less religious dealings as the 'general' of Nauvoo.






 
"Joseph; I advise you not to go to that jail."
 
"Darn gnats!!"
 
 
"Joseph; I'm telling you to not to go to that jail."
 
"Flies are BAD today!!"
 
 
"Joseph; It ain't gonna be pretty if you ignore me and go to that jail!"
 
"Crummy mosquitos are EVERYWHERE!!!"
 
 
"Joseph!  Do NOT go to that jail!"
 
"And those bedbugs really savaged me last night, too!"
 
 
"JOSEPH!!  Wake up boy!   Do Not Go To That JAIL!!!"
 
"All right Sheriff - here I am, so give me a nice room while my Lawyer, my Advocate, my Comforter presents the LAW to the Judge and I am VINDICATED!!!"
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


154 posted on 04/17/2012 9:06:27 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Kaslin

Bump for later ............................ FRegards


155 posted on 04/17/2012 2:50:45 PM PDT by gonzo ( Buy more ammo, dammit! You should already have the firearms ... FRegards)
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To: Godzilla

blah blah yadayada lielie......

Christian Taliban in action, continuing to deny the blood of Mormans on their hands, continuing to deface and defame Free republic with endless streams of vociferous drivel.


156 posted on 04/17/2012 4:44:38 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ..... Crucifixion is coming)
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To: bert
Christian Taliban in action, continuing to deny the blood of Mormans on their hands, continuing to deface and defame Free republic with endless streams of vociferous drivel.

Spoken like a true liberal with the intelligence of a gnat.

Tell that to the families of the MMM.

157 posted on 04/17/2012 5:05:30 PM PDT by Godzilla (3/7/77)
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To: bert

Have you ever read “By His Own Hand Upon Papyrus” by Charles Larson?


158 posted on 04/17/2012 7:01:58 PM PDT by fulltlt
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To: bert
Christian Taliban in action, continuing to deny the blood of Mormans on their hands, continuing to deface and defame Free republic with endless streams of vociferous drivel.



159 posted on 04/18/2012 3:37:40 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Elsie
You are still prattling on with the bigoted crap I see
 
Nobody reads the multocolored crap you post
 
We live in America not some totalitarian Christian state.
 
My objection is to the strident, bigoted self righteousness here that masks a political view.
 
 I want them to know there is at least one rational minded person on Free Republic that objects to Mormonphobe harangues.
 
blah blah yadayada lielie......
 

160 posted on 04/18/2012 4:04:04 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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