Bigotry among Republicans Poised to guarantee a ZOT for me!

Poll Position ^ | 01-04-12 | Poll Position

[47samurai]

Trolling a bit admittedly, but it appears that even if Romney secures the nomination, he is destined to lose due to good, old-fashioned religious bigotry.

[Elsie]

Prove me wrong with their own scripture, if you can...

Ok...

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Questions put to Joseph Smith: "'Do you believe the Bible?' [Smith:]'If we do, we are the only people under heaven that does, for there are none of the religious sects of the day that do'. When asked 'Will everybody be damned, but Mormons'? [Smith replied] 'Yes, and a great portion of them, unless they repent, and work righteousness." (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 119).

Joseph Smith: "for the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to the Bible" (from Pearl of Great Price 1:12). "What is it that inspires professors of Christianity generally with a hope of salvation? It is that smooth, sophisticated influence of the devil, by which he deceives the whole world" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p.270).

 

 

 

Brigham Young stated this repeatedly: "When the light came to me I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness" (Journal of Discourses 5:73); "The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God" (Journal of Discourses 8:171); "With a regard to true theology, a more ignorant people never lived than the present so-called Christian world" (Journal of Discourses 8:199); "And who is there that acknowledges [God's] hand? ...You may wander east, west, north, and south, and you cannot find it in any church or government on the earth, except the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (Journal of Discourses , vol. 6, p.24); "Should you ask why we differ from other Christians, as they are called, it is simply because they are not Christians as the New Testament defines Christianity" (Journal of Discourses 10:230).

 

 

 

Orson Pratt proclaimed: "Both Catholics and Protestants are nothing less than the 'whore of Babylon' whom the Lord denounces by the mouth of John the Revelator as having corrupted all the earth by their fornications and wickedness. Any person who shall be so corrupt as to receive a holy ordinance of the Gospel from the ministers of any of these apostate churches will be sent down to hell with them, unless they repent" (The Seer, p. 255).

 

 

 

Orson Pratt also said: "This great apostasy commenced about the close of the first century of the Christian era, and it has been waxing worse and worse from then until now" (Journal of Discourses

, vol.18, p.44) and: "But as there has been no Christian Church on the earth for a great many centuries past, until the present century, the people have lost sight of the pattern that God has given according to which the Christian Church should be established, and they have denominated a great variety of people Christian Churches, because they profess to be ...But there has been a long apostasy, during which the nations have been cursed with apostate churches in great abundance" (Journal of Discourses , 18:172).

 

 

President John Taylor stated: "Christianity...is a perfect pack of nonsense...the devil could not invent a better engine to spread his work than the Christianity of the nineteenth century." (Journal of Discourses , vol. 6, p.167); "Where shall we look for the true order or authority of God? It cannot be found in any nation of Christendom." (Journal of Discourses , 10:127).

 

 

 

James Talmage said: "A self-suggesting interpretation of history indicates that there has been a great departure from the way of salvation as laid down by the Savior, a universal apostasy from the Church of Christ". (A Study of the Articles of Faith, p.182).

 

 

 

President Joseph Fielding Smith said: "Doctrines were corrupted, authority lost, and a false order of religion took the place of the gospel of Jesus Christ, just as it had been the case in former dispensations, and the people were left in spiritual darkness." (Doctrines of Salvation, p.266). "For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging to the place of salvation ...Joseph Smith declared that in the year 1820 the Lord revealed to him that all the 'Christian' churches were in error, teaching for commandments the doctrines of men" (Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 3, p.282).

 

 

 

More recent statements by apostle Bruce McConkie are also very clear: "Apostasy was universal...And this darkness still prevails except among those who have come to a knowledge of the restored gospel" (Doctrines of Salvation, vol 3, p.265); "Thus the signs of the times include the prevailing apostate darkness in the sects of Christendom and in the religious world in general" (The Millennial Messiah, p.403); "a perverted Christianity holds sway among the so-called Christians of apostate Christendom" (Mormon Doctrine, p.132); "virtually all the millions of apostate Christendom have abased themselves before the mythical throne of a mythical Christ whom they vainly suppose to be a spirit essence who is incorporeal uncreated, immaterial and three-in-one with the Father and Holy Spirit" (Mormon Doctrine, p.269); "Gnosticism is one of the great pagan philosophies which antedated Christ and the Christian Era and which was later commingled with pure Christianity to form the apostate religion that has prevailed in the world since the early days of that era." (Mormon Doctrine, p.316).

 

 

 

President George Q. Cannon said: "After the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized, there were only two churches upon the earth. They were known respectively as the Church of the Lamb of God and Babylon. The various organizations which are called churches throughout Christendom, though differing in their creeds and organizations, have one common origin. They all belong to Babylon" (Gospel Truth, p.324).

 

 

President Wilford Woodruff stated: "the Gospel of modern Christendom shuts up the Lord, and stops all communication with Him. I want nothing to do with such a Gospel, I would rather prefer the Gospel of the dark ages, so called" (Journal of Discourses , vol. 2, p.196).

[Elsie]

DRAT!!

I've posted the WRONG thingy!!

[Elsie]

LDS definitely is a weird out factor to more ANY conventional Christian.

 

 

Actually, anyone who calls themselves a 'christian' that really KNOWS what the bible says

as well as the teachings of the Mormon Religious Orgasnization, based in Salt Lake City.

[Revolting cat!]

What’s ‘bigotery’?

[CainConservative]

Amen!

[Choose Ye This Day]

Bigotry is not required, however, to be against Romney.

No kidding. I'm an LDS Christian (not mutually exclusive; I don't care what anyone else says) and I can't stand Romney. I was for Thompson in '08 and for Cain this year (I can really pick 'em). I dislike Romney because of his lack of core, conservative beliefs and his lack of political spine.

[Elsie]

No wonder God ends up destroying us.

HELLO???

cry out 47+ MILLION voices from the grave (or trashcan).

[Elsie]

Guess they call you Snuffies "jarheads" for a reason.

No bigotry here folks; keep moving along...

[Elsie]

For the vast majority it’s not religious bigotry, it’s just knowing...

what BIGOTRY really is!

When the HERESY of MORMONism manages to get the spotlight of TRUTH shined upon itself; it's adherants scurry like ROACHES into their dens of namecalling and victimhood: NEVER being able to adequately defend what they so fervently 'believe'.

[Elsie]

I don't like Romney and I'm a Catholic, but it can't be denied there is religious bigotry against Mormons, including Romney, and some has been displayed right here on FR.

Then you WILL be providing a LINK to what you have seen DISPLAYED; won't you?

I'd just HATE to have a fine Catholic look as foolish as a MORMON that just makes CLAIMS with nothing to back them up.

[greyfoxx39]

You've been here since 1998. You've seen all the bigotted comments about Mormons, their beliefs, their "magic underwear", and the rest. Still you want to say you don't think there is massive anti-mormon bigotry here? Guess they call you Snuffies "jarheads" for a reason.

The mormon church sends out 52,000 missionaries a day to denigrate Christianity and lie about the Gospel of Jesus Christ being removed from the earth, the mormon church has a vast PR campaign that costs millions of dollars per year, the mormon church has probably upwards of 5000 propaganda websites on the internet...

Poor persecuted FR mormons...a handful of FReepers post the truth about Joseph Smith and mormonism, backed up by mormon sources, of the actions and doctrines and they whine because someone actually pushes back at the huge propaganda machine of the mormon church.

[Elsie]

The bigot police can go to hell.

Boy! You gots the makin's of a fine Living Prophet®!!

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"Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives, and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned;

and I will go still further and say, take this revelation, or any other revelation that the Lord has given,

and deny it in your feelings, and I promise that you will be damned.

Brigham Young - JoD 3:266 (July 14, 1855)

[Elsie]

When anyone raises Obama's race, Romney's Mormonism, or Kennedy's Catholicism, they reveal themselves as the true bigots.

Well; some day when Tom Cruise desides to run; dim bigots will be out if force AGAIN, sayin' dat EVERbody knows that Scientologists are NUTS!

[greyfoxx39]

The bigot police can go to hell.

That has the makings of a good tagline!

[svcw]

Does your bishop know you call yourself a Christian? After all J Smith called all Christians an abomination.

[Elsie]

What does ZOT mean?

Instant DEATH on FR; but one gets catapulted to the highest level of Greg West's kingdom in the process.

[greyfoxx39]

ROTFL! You are a whiz with the photoshop!

[reaganaut]

Somedays I miss Spammy. He wasn’t around long but he was a fun toy to play with, much better than the ones who remain.

[Elsie]

Why do I have this feeling that I’ve just lost 15 minutes of my life in some strange experiment?

[Elsie]

I don't care what anyone else says

Yeah; I had figgered that out long ago.

But; what say ye about what MORMON leaders have said; like up a few replies at #101.

Do YOU accept or reject what is posted there?