Posted on 10/13/2011 5:52:58 PM PDT by Gamecock
I subscribe to a Mormon apologetic Newsletter titled FAIR (Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research).
Normally it falls into my junk email account and I don't even open it, but today I had a few minutes and scanned the latest offering and was stunned to see the hypocrisy of the authors. Please note the entire email is posted below.
This particular issue has a great deal of whining about those mean Christians who make the spurious claim that Mormons are not Christians, but are a cult.
A couple of examples:
-"Mormons are a cult" epithets into the national spotlight. In his "On Faith" commentary this week, Church Public Affairs managing director Michael Otterson suggests why people make such claims and shares his own experience of being labeled not Christian.
Calling Mormonism a cult is old hat, and the voters are yawning.
-Texas Gov. Rick Perry's minister ally Robert Jeffress might think Mitt Romney's church is a cult, but a new documentary on the presidency and Mormonism suggests that Romney could snag the nation's top job despite the religious feud between Christians.
-....the "cult" of Mormonism means that you raise a solid family, work hard, make money and do good for the greater community of mankind, then by all means pass the Kool-Aid.
-It seems just too petty and small for a country as big as America to have. America, as a melting pot of many cultures and many beliefs, is supposed to be more tolerant of differences.
-Another woman in Texas remembers that her LDS congregation was banned from participating in a community-wide Christmas event and that non-Church members once barged into Sunday meetings shouting that Mormons were cult members and devil worshippers.
The reader will note, when comparing the above quotes with the below article, that the quotes originate from the MSM. Why would the MSM, a known enemy of Christianity, care if Christians consider Mormons a cult or not? I suggest that these quotes are really more of an attack on Christianity than some deep concern for Mormons. Notice how when Mormons talk family values the press fawns over them. When Christians do the same we are are intolerant of other lifestyles.
That being said, consider the above quotes. Christians who deny Mormons mainstream status are bigoted, intolerant, etc. But ask your self this: are Mormons not intolerant when they make the following claim: that Joseph Smith unearthed a book of golden plates from a New York hillside in 1827 with the help of an angel and translated hieroglyphics that detailed the true Christian faith.
So Mormons don't want to be Christians, but rather the "true Christian faith." Isn't that just a bit intolerant?
I suspect what is really going on here is that in reality the MSM sees Romney as a palatable Republican. They don't really care about Mormons, but are afraid of Cain and Perry.
Take a few minutes and scan the below and see what other nuggets jump out at you. There are more than a couple.
Yes, I agree. But the inerrancy believers on FR do not. They have told me that if even one sentence of Genesis is not literally and exactly true, then Christ is a liar and his sacrifice a sham.
So just as the LDS have had to tap dance their way through archaeology to try and keep the Nephites and Lamanites in the historical records, so have the YEC's had to do much the same thing with geology and astrophysics.
The purposed stupidity is becoming more than amusing.
However, there are lots and lots of Mormon members who are inclined to vote for conservative candidates. For the conservative movement (at least as represented on FR) to gin up a frenzy of anti-Mormon rants
.... you've seen them, it's the same three or four posters who layer on the italics, the boldface, and the exclamation points!!! for paragraph after paragraph after paragraph.....
will do nothing but tick those Mormon voters off, and drive them away from conservatism.
They place their religion above their conservatism - displayed by their overwhelming support for RINO romney
Well, I believe that Genesis is true. These folks are not correct if you take this objectively. Objectively (i.e. trying to not look at it from a religious point of view), Mormonism fails due to the fact that the native americans are not semites.
if someone proved that the resurrection did not happen, then christianity would be disproven.
Mormonism has this failure point because J Smith put his religion in a historical context that was disproven after his death.
At least L Ron Hubbard chose something that would take millenia to disprove (when we set up the Terran Empire!)
U sure about that? My understanding is that Mormons believe that Jesus is the Son of God and the Saviour, but that He is NOT Divine. But either way, Mormons are so far away from mainstream, orthodox Christianity that they truly are a cult.
U sure about that? My understanding is that Mormons believe that Jesus is the Son of God and the Saviour, but that He is NOT Divine. But either way, Mormons are so far away from mainstream, orthodox Christianity that they truly are a cult.
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