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To: BlackElk
I have, in fact, repeatedly posted that I would defend him or any other Mormon from attacks so motivated which are anti-Mormon bigotry.

That's honorable; for MORMONs need all the help they can get.

But; will you ALSO defend mormonISM?

194 posted on 06/03/2012 7:06:58 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Elsie
No, I will not defend Mormonism as such or any other faith which is not that of the Roman Catholic Church. I am closer to some (Eastern Orthodoxy) than to others (Mormonism, United Methodist, Congregationalism) but I disagree to some extent with each and every one of them precisely as each differs from Catholicism. So what? I would defend the right of a Mormon to be a Mormon, a Sikh to be a Sikh, a Hindu to be a Hindu, a Muslim to be a Muslim.

Specifically, as to MormonISM, I do not believe that there is an angel named Moroni or that there were ever any "golden wheels" given by him to Joseph Smith, and therefore, I do not believe in the Book of Mormon which Moroni is said to have given to Joseph Smith on those wheels. OTOH, if I had been alive at the time, I would have resisted those who lynched Joseph Smith. Religious differences do NOT justify murdering one's fellow human beings simply because of such differences. I do not believe in polygamy which was a feature of the early Mormon Church but I have difficulty (given the provisions of the First Amendment) with the idea of the federal government requiring abandonment of polygamy as a condition of Utah statehood so long as the polygamy (a very bad idea in any event) was voluntarily entered.

I think very well of most Mormons I have known since I have found them generally to be morally conservative and patriotic folks who often put others to shame on those scores. I am OTOH utterly and negatively amazed at some of their religious doctrines but those doctrines are no threat to me or mine or anyone else for that matter. Brigham Young was, ummm, an overly textured fellow but neither he nor anyone like him have been among us in this world for a very long time. His behavior was likely a reaction to what happened to Joseph Smith.

215 posted on 06/04/2012 4:46:24 PM PDT by BlackElk (Viva Cristo Rey! Tom Hoefling for POTUS! Viva Cristo Rey!)
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