Posted on 04/24/2012 1:28:27 PM PDT by Jeff Head
Yeah only goats can have shenanigans...
They have a right to establish their own rules of ceremony within the church. No one is holding a gun and saying you must marry here and as Jeff said evidently some opt for public {civil} wedding and later have another ceremony in the church. Marriage vows are about and between the couple and GOD. It's THEIR wedding remember?
and kneelers in pretty pastel shades with lilies and roses ???
He’s the Lily of the Valley
He’s the Rose of Sharon
Do you wear the garment both night and day
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I’d slap any pervert who asked me about my undies...
“Would I feel God’s presence in this space, even though it’s not a space that’s sacred for me?”
from the article...
I can answer, NO!!! God is not present in this crazy
sect. Absolutely not. Pray for the LDS and the RLDS,
their split to convert to to the true faith.
The title should tell you, two falsehoods, Female
Episcopal Priest and Mormon Temple.
THX 1138
Well, I don’t know what they were thinking about the white or slightly off white carpeting. The place was like a very nice hotel. Absolutely nothing sacred about it. Pleasant, but sterile. No real character.
When the tour guide (who was an amiable twit) took us to a room with two large mirrors facing one another across the room (either the sealing room or the celestial room, I can’t remember which), he said the mirrors were to remind people about their coming eternity with God (i.e. the two facing mirrors show reflections within reflections within reflections, etc.). All I could think of was, “No looking in those mirrors would remind you of how YOU’RE going to be a god for eternity.”
I was in a room like that once on Santa Monica pier, they called it the “fun house”, it didn’t have white carpet though, just concrete floors.
First mormonism is NOT a Christian religion.
Second it is magic underwear because mormons (15% of them anyway) wear it to protect them from something or other.
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No one said they didn't.
It's just merely been pointed out how UN-christian the MORMONs are.
Is there a law against THAT?
| Officiator: Brother ______, [naming groom] and Sister ______, [naming bride] please join hands in the Patriarchal Grip or Sure Sign of the Nail. Marriage Couple: Joins hands in the "Patriarchal Grip, or Sure Sign of the Nail." This token is given by clasping the right hands, interlocking the little fingers and placing the tip of the forefinger upon the center of the wrist. No clothing should interfere with the contact of the forefinger upon the wrist. Officiator: Brother ______, do you take Sister ______ by the right hand and receive her unto yourself to be your lawful and wedded wife for time and all eternity, with a covenant and promise that you will observe and keep all the laws, rites, and ordinances pertaining to this Holy Order of Matrimony in the New and Everlasting Covenant, and this you do in the presence of God, angels, and these witnesses of your own free will and choice? Groom: Yes. Officiator: Sister ______ do you take brother ______ by the right hand and give yourself to him to be his lawful and wedded wife, and for him to be your lawful and wedded husband, for time and all eternity, with a covenant and promise that you will observe and keep all the laws, rites and ordinances pertaining to this Holy Order of Matrimony in the New and Everlasting Covenant, and this you do in the presence of God, angels, and these witnesses of your own free will and choice? Bride: Yes. Officiator: By virtue of the Holy Priesthood and the authority vested in me, I pronounce you ______, and ______, legally and lawfully husband and wife for time and all eternity, and I seal upon you the blessings of the holy resurrection with power to come forth in the morning of the first resurrection clothed in glory, immortality and eternal lives, and I seal upon you the blessings of kingdoms, thrones, principalities, powers, dominions and exaltations, with all the blessings of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and say unto you: be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth that you may have joy and rejoicing in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. All these blessings, together with all the blessings appertaining unto the New and Everlasting Covenant, I seal upon you by virtue of the Holy Priesthood, through your faithfulness, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Amen. |
Why do I say this?
That is a Christian religion founded in 1830 in upstate New York.
It is about as 'christian' as Rastafarian.
You continue talking about other religions having distinctive clothing, trying to make the point that MORMONs should NOT be taken to task over theirs.
Well, Bob; none of those other religions make the claim that only THEY are the TRUE christians and that only THEY have the CORRECT rituals and procedures to get a soul into Heaven. (the top level anyway)
So you see Bob, it is not actually the GARMENT (with it's purloined MASONic symbols) that is getting mocked; but the ENTIRE structure and form of MORMONism; a NON-christian cult (That has STOLEN the name of Jesus and boldly emblazoned it onto it's buildings.)
Take reading material so you have something to do while you wait for the wedding to be over. Say, “Mountain Meadows Massacre”. HA
oh Snap!
[svcw to Jeff Head]: “Your experiences are so very different than what most people experience and they sure are different than mine.”
If the average Mormon were as Jeff Head describes, I doubt it would be so easy to find the multitude of ex-Mormon sites and literature out there. All of those people can’t be completely crazy.
Thanks for the ping, Jeff.
FReegards
Liberal and most likely gay....
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