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Why the need for secret death oaths in the LDS Temple Endowment Ceremony? [Secretive Mormon church]
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Posted on 12/11/2011 7:30:58 AM PST by Colofornian

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To: Jack Hydrazine; Colofornian

Have any Mormons ever be killed for giving away the secrets?

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Not for about 100 years (blood atonement).


41 posted on 12/11/2011 6:32:19 PM PST by reaganaut (Ex-Mormon, now Christian "I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see".)
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To: Colofornian
Why the need for secret death oaths in the LDS Temple Endowment Ceremony? [Secretive Mormon church]

 
Don LeFevre, a past spokesman for the church has said the church,
 
 "...strongly advises its members not to affiliate with organizations that are secret, oath-bound,
 or would cause them to lose interest in church activities."
 
[Salt Lake Tribune Section D1, Monday Feb. 17, 1992]
 
 
There goes all the Temple Recommends!
 

42 posted on 12/12/2011 4:21:25 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Jack Hydrazine; Saundra Duffy
I wonder if Saundra has ever spoken these death oaths? She’ll probably deny it.

She never seems to 'speak' to anything.

She is REALLY good at ignoring though.

43 posted on 12/12/2011 4:31:19 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Disambiguator
The architecture of the buildings is too similar to be coincidence.



Fantasy Land indeed!

Orlando
San Deigo

44 posted on 12/12/2011 4:32:46 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Colofornian
Ya just gotta wonder: Did God change his mind about pagan-like rituals? Masonic-riddled rituals?

Inasmuch as laws have been enacted by Congress forbidding plural marriage...
I hereby declare my intention to submit to those laws..."

~ Wilford Woodruff, 4th LDS President


45 posted on 12/12/2011 4:34:38 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Colofornian
What year did you become a Mormon, Saundra?

What year did you get your TEmple Recommend®, Saundra?

46 posted on 12/12/2011 4:35:38 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Saundra Duffy
Our Temples are sacred holy places.

Can YOU enter them?

47 posted on 12/12/2011 4:36:47 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Saundra Duffy
“What kinds of sanctions or discipline will they throw at you?”

Even with NO YT videos; folks can SEE what kinds of stuff gets 'thrown' at Apostate MORMONs right here on FR!

48 posted on 12/12/2011 4:38:00 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Saundra Duffy
“What kinds of sanctions or discipline will they throw at you?”

If a Salt Lake City MORMON decides that WW was full of it, and starts PRACTICING what MORMON scripture commands in D&C 132; they will be EXCOMMUNICATED!

Right, Sandy!?

49 posted on 12/12/2011 4:39:13 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: rzman21
Why should the Mormon secrecy bother Evangelicals considering that so many Evangelicals are Freemasons?

Why should sin bother Evangelicals considering that so many Evangelicals have sin in their lives?

50 posted on 12/12/2011 4:40:49 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Colofornian

51 posted on 12/12/2011 5:21:51 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Colofornian
It's likely that death oaths were originally introduced into the endowment ceremony in order to conceal the secret practice of polygamy in Nauvoo.

No, they were copied directly from Freemasonry.

52 posted on 12/12/2011 5:23:57 AM PST by Campion ("It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins." -- Franklin)
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To: Saundra Duffy
Instead of stressing over The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, why not try to find out what “secrets” are kept in the bowels of the Vatican.

Sorry, Saundra, but we have no secret "temples" in the Catholic Church, no two-tier "temple recommend" memberships, and the only secret ritual we have is the sacrament of confession, for obvious reasons. And there's even nothing secret about what goes on there, except for the actual confession the penitent makes.

You can attend our most sacred ritual, the Mass, at almost any Catholic church on almost any day, though you can't receive communion. You'll find no strange stageplays muddling the words of Genesis, no special undergarments, no special handshakes, no blood oaths, nothing like that. We read Scripture, pray, and make the offering Jesus taught his disciples to make.

That's the "secret" in the "bowels" of the Vatican. Shocking, I know.

53 posted on 12/12/2011 5:34:10 AM PST by Campion ("It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins." -- Franklin)
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To: Campion

Bingo! placemarker


54 posted on 12/12/2011 9:06:58 AM PST by reaganaut (Ex-Mormon, now Christian "I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see".)
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To: Campion

But I saw this MOVIE...


55 posted on 12/12/2011 9:33:25 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Saundra Duffy
Instead of stressing over The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, why not try to find out what “secrets” are kept in the bowels of the Vatican.

...to see if you can find my Temple Recommend®!

56 posted on 12/12/2011 9:36:01 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Saundra Duffy
 That should keep you occupied for quite some time and you can take a rest from your incessant Morman bashing.

 
 
Ma'am; we don't NEED a rest!
 
You are not BIC, so you do NOT understand the recuperative power of green Jello©!

57 posted on 12/12/2011 9:40:23 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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