[JPX2011]

It's kind of like watching a train wreck.

Indeed it is. A child attempting to participate in an adult conversation, "And you see this here, well this looks sort of like this and it has the same shape as this, and so they are kinda sorta the same thing. Blah blah blah." Now that is what is embarrasing.

I suppose that accusing someone who is exposing something that really ought to be an embarrassment to them, of being fascinated or obsessed by it is typical distraction technique.

Is this something new? Some newfound knowledge lost to history until Caww was able to decipher the code and overcome millenia of Catholic suppession and at last bring us the truth? Gimme a break. There's nothing being exposed here. Protestants shouldn't believe their own press. It makes them look like nutjob conspiracy theorists. There's no difference between this and the "9/11 was an inside job" crowd.

There is nothing here to be embarrased about. Maybe protestants shouldn't be interjecting their post-modern revisionist sensibilities into something they don't understand.

Some would call it an obsession, I call it the antics of a child. Which is why protestants support it, disobedient children that they are. They simply don't know what they're talking about. And like the children that they are it is better that they are seen and not heard.

[Elsie]

And you see this here, well this looks sort of like this and it has the same shape as this, and so they are kinda sorta the same thing. Blah blah blah."

Kinda like the Calvinosaurus of Catholicism...

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Dump a bible in a blender; toss in a few speculations, and some visitations to CHILDREN in Portugal, still with the big stick of 'authority'; and VIOLA!!!Ya got yerself a DOCTRINE!!

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Mr. Millet:

 

I don't think we can ever transcend Joseph Smith or consider him to be a valued personality, but now we'll move on.

I don't think you'll see that among believers in the faith, because there are too many other things that came from him

that are the reasons why we do what we do and we are what we are. That there are unanswered questions, to be sure.

That there are things that I'm as anxious as the next guy to learn more detail on, I really want to know. But in the interim,

 it really doesn't, doesn't trouble me.

We're in the religion-making business, as you intimated earlier, only for a short time, I mean, compared to the

Christian church, which has been at this for a couple of millennia. We're about halfway to Nicaea.

And so, and so in that sense — I remember a very tender moment. I was speaking with — I've been invited

to the Salt Lake Theological Seminary, basically an Evangelical seminary, to discuss a book I had done on Jesus.

And they had read it, and they wanted me to come and just respond to questions.

And it was, it was a very enjoyable couple of hours.

 

The very last question that was asked by one of my friends there was this one.

 

He said, 'Bob, what can we do for you?'

 

And I, I wasn't ready for that question. I said, 'What do you mean?'

 

He said, 'What can we, as Evangelicals, do for our Mormon friends?'

 

And I, I guess my mind could have gone a hundred different ways, but what I came back with was this.

 

I said, 'Boy, I appreciate you asking that. I don't think I've ever been asked that.'

 

But, but I said, 'Try this. Cut us a little slack, will you? Give us a little time.

We're in the religion-making business, and this takes time. It takes centuries.

 

And, and trying to explain the faith and articulate the faith, that doesn't come over night.

We've really only been about that for 20 or 30 years.'

 

 

http://being.publicradio.org/programs/insidemormonfaith/transcript.shtml

[Elsie]

They simply don't know what they're talking about.

Mary is Dead!

[CynicalBear]

>>Maybe protestants shouldn't be interjecting their post-modern revisionist sensibilities<<

Post modern? The practices of the Catholic Church have been shown to have their source in Babylonian paganism. It has been shown that the Catholic Church readily admits many of her beliefs and practices originate in paganism. It has been shown that God said not to include pagan practices in serving Him. Hardly "post modern sensibilities".

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

A child attempting to participate in an adult conversation

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Even a child could admit that Jesus alone is sufficient for salvation.

Based on all that nonsense you just posted you really don't seem to understand what we've been saying all along.

We don't need magic rituals, goddesses, dessicated corpses, secret codes, etc... to enter the Kingdom of God.

All we need is to Believe on Him who gave Himself over for our Salvation.

You can keep your traditions, rituals and necromancy. I've rejected the architect of those abominations and all of his empty promises.

Jesus alone is Necessary, Sufficient and Crucial.