Posted on 11/28/2012 6:00:38 PM PST by Colofornian
http://www.lds.org/church/news/mormonor ... c?lang=eng
How about being straight up and saying that Mormons put on costumes and chant rituals in secret buildings that only 10% of gross earnings paid as "tithes" allow entrance?
Mormonism wants people to think they are normal that they are just Christians like everyone else. Each year they get rid of more and more of their embarrassing doctrines - or doctrines that aren't politically correct anymore. Apologist attack dogs fight any critics on technicalities.
Mormonism has one thing that works for them - and that is the funneling of cash from members to the Cult coffers. This is done through mandatory tithe. And in order to make this tithe work - and make the member believe in the Cult enough to pay - they have to have the secret temple ceremonies. You have to put a ton of make believe in there.
Stephen R. Donaldson is one of my favorite authors. In one of his series of books he explained how a great and noble group of leaders were slowly corrupted through the centuries by simple infiltration of ideas. The ideas changed the group slowly until they went from helping people to human sacrifices. The new leaders of the group knew what was going on - but they surrounded themselves with those who only had faith - not knowledge. Those who had faith were much stronger because they were driven by the new cult. Those who held faith were much easier to control.
Pondering the story Donaldson had written I saw the same manifested in the Cult of Mormonism. If you have members who are so convinced you are the one and only true Cult, they will not hesitate to open their pocketbooks and hand over everything. Mormonism needs this kind of special, secret, garment wearing, new name, pay lay ale - in order to keep the tithes flowing. If the cat is out of the bag, the tithing will stop.
So the reality is there is a certain point where Mormonism must stop moving towards Christianity - it has to because money is ultimately the top priority of the Cult. Money - Power - Control.
Look at all the recovery boards right now - even the NOM boards. What is the #1 topic right now because of upcoming December? Tithing. Tithing. Tithing. Oh and don't forget tithing. Sign up for tithing settlement. And don't forget to sign up for tithing settlement.
“All of our messaging is focused on helping people understand that Mormons are Christian,”
Naw, Mormonism isn't a Christian church. It's a secretive Cult with very cultish practices and it has to stay that way - or go broke.
To DelphiUser again FYI:
Elsie: No Freepers were banned for being Mormon? Then why was I and ALL my Mormon freeper friends banned/zotted? Furthermore, ALL freeper Mormons (before we were banned/zotted and to this day) have been denied permission to post articles about our faith using ecumenical/devotional.
Catholics and other faiths (i.e. Joel Osteen) are allowed to be protected from the onslaught/dog pile of dissenting opinions but for some sick reason Mormons are not permitted to have a devotional moment on this site.
Many of my freeper Mormon friends are still zotted and most of the ones who have been un-zotted have no desire to come back. Too many wounded hearts.
So Blah blah blah Elsie.
To DelphiUser again FYI:
Elsie: No Freepers were banned for being Mormon? Then why was I and ALL my Mormon freeper friends banned/zotted? Furthermore, ALL freeper Mormons (before we were banned/zotted and to this day) have been denied permission to post articles about our faith using ecumenical/devotional.
Catholics and other faiths (i.e. Joel Osteen) are allowed to be protected from the onslaught/dog pile of dissenting opinions but for some sick reason Mormons are not permitted to have a devotional moment on this site.
Many of my freeper Mormon friends are still zotted and most of the ones who have been un-zotted have no desire to come back. Too many wounded hearts.
So Blah blah blah Elsie.
Because I think you’re a fool, why else?
To be fair and balanced?
To show that you care enough about perceived HATE from BOTH sides?
Can't read?
Tell it to Brigham Young who has DAMNED you!
If you have a specific question, send me a Freepmail.
350 posted on Friday, November 30, 2012 12:40:31 AM by Religion Moderator
Oh?
I'll bet the RM doesn't know about this slight!
The jury notes that this opinion has already been established.
They now want to know WHY you think this.
But I don’t cARe at all aBout perceived haTe anYWHere, I just observe anD comment on it...as I wish.
I really don’t care WHAT the jury waNTS.
Still fact challenged I see...
Preaching of postmortem pardon is another perversion, and which 1Pt. 3:19 does not teach.
And how well did that work our DU - 3000+ changes and counting.
The Bible was translated several times by Scholars, htey did a great work, but they are not God, and they had to guess at how God wanted it translated.
Unlike the bom, Bible scholars can return to the ms. Greek and Hebrew are well understood - so there is little to 'guess' on how passages should be translated and if there is a doubt one can go back to the ms. How well does that work for the bom - oh right, that durn angel took the plates away (but then that didn't stop smith and the peep stone)
Thanks for the discussion, by the way.
take care
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Short term memory SD - you seem to forget that these mormons used the caucus/EC forums to ATTACK Christianity and because of their abuse of the categories they lost the privilage. None of these other groups that still use these categories use caucus/ec to attack other groups - else they would lose the privilage as well.
Pack up the victim card SD, its wore out.
The Cult has started a new ad campaign in New York [Where the Mormon tithe & temple fits in]
Thu Nov 29 21:40:31 2012 · 350 of 415
Religion Moderator to svcw; DelphiUser
No Freepers were banned for being Mormon.
At least one Mormon Freeper was banned for trolling here and publishing anti-Free Republic material on a blog, naming Freepers he considered to be anti-Mormon.
At least one Mormon Freeper was banned as “opused out” meaning that she wanted to leave.
Some other Mormon Freepers committed “suicide by mod” by unseemly behavior towards the Moderators and/or Jim Robinson.
If you have a specific question, send me a Freepmail.
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Prayer did save my life, I prayed about mormonISM and God Almighty said - “flee this blasphemy”.
One of their “Prophets” says that Mary was beset on by a physical father and our friend says otherwise....
So we can go from there...
If any of the Protestant caucuses, ecumenical threads or Osteen or Chambers devotionals used a tag as cover to attack the beliefs of Freepers who are Catholic, LDS etc. they would also lose the privilege because when we put words in the mouth of another Freeper he has an interest in speaking for himself. And if the Catholic caucuses used the tags to attack the beliefs of Freepers who are Jewish, Protestant, LDS etc. they likewise would lose the privilege.
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