Some Mormons Search the Web and Find Doubt

New York Times ^ | July 20, 2013 | LAURIE GOODSTEIN

[Not gonna take it anymore]

In the small but cohesive Mormon community where he grew up, Hans Mattsson was a solid believer and a pillar of the church. He followed his father and grandfather into church leadership and finally became an “area authority” overseeing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints throughout Europe

When fellow believers in Sweden first began coming to him with information from the Internet that contradicted the church’s history and teachings, he dismissed it as “anti-Mormon propaganda,” the whisperings of Lucifer. He asked his superiors for help in responding to the members’ doubts, and when they seemed to only sidestep the questions, Mr. Mattsson began his own investigation.

[Elsie]

As I travel in circles with my wife people assume I'm a Mormon.
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I hear snide remarks about Christianity all the time.

I'll bet you do!

[Vendome]

I would have told her “Great! I’m looking for a drinking buddy.”

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“I have never known a more Christian woman than her. You can say what you like but if you look in Websters Dictionary under the definition of Christian, one of the listings will be my wifes name.”

It sounds like you married well. :-)

Criticism of mormonism as a false religion is not a criticism of the character of your wife.

A Christian faith should result in a well-lived life.
A well-lived life does always reflect a belief in the truth.

When my own kids were very young, I loved when they played with the two kids of the Hare Krishna couple down the street. They were very nice people. Not Christian, but lived life well.

[SunkenCiv]

This humiliating zot will *dog* him for a long time.

I’m just glad someone managed to collar him.

[MarkBsnr]

The Jewish people were the first to hear God.

Dang! I always had thought it was Adam!

Well, let's grasp at straws here and narrow the whole thing down to the promise of salvation - how about Abram?

[MarkBsnr]

Modern forensic psychologists are getting very good at their trade.

We blind squirrels ain't so shabby ourselves!

I don't know about that...

[MarkBsnr]

For an ‘official’ resource; this sounds like FAIRLDS or FARMS wrote it!

Sounds like a NY Times or Washington Post article after the White House vets it.

[TheOldLady]

Now that he’s on a short leash, his biting comments will be no more.

[Elsie]

INDEED!

[Elsie]

Are you just LOOKING for Noah to correct you? ;^)

[Elsie]

Quite similar...

[Elsie]

HMMMmmm...

I thought he was merely barking...

[TheOldLady]

We’ll just never know if his bark was worse than his bite, I guess.

[TheThirdRuffian]

Oh, come on.

Every Israel or Jewish-interest thread attracts the same 5 or 6 Pat Buchanon kill-the-Joos crazy posters.

You’ve been here long enough to see it.

[TheThirdRuffian]

I don’t know if you or your wife is going to hell, but I do know that the Mormon additions to Christianity are just a re-hash of gnostic mystery religion passing off the “secrets” of my fraternity (freemasonry — and that’s all it is, a fraternal order dedicated to public works) as secret knowledge to gain entry into heaven.

Religion and God are hard and confusing enough without people layering on a bunch of gobbleygook for personal profit and power, like Joe Smith did.

[Elsie]

You are correct in that FR does have some crazies (present company excluded), but my complaint with your post was the word ‘every’.

[Elsie]

“I have never known a more Christian woman than her.

But...

...how good of a MORMON is she?

Has she a TR card?

[Elsie]

Deuteronomy 13:6-11

 

6 If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, 7 gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other), 8 do not yield to them or listen to them. Show them no pity. Do not spare them or shield them. 9 You must certainly put them to death. Your hand must be the first in putting them to death, and then the hands of all the people. 10 Stone them to death, because they tried to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 11 Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and no one among you will do such an evil thing again.

 

[MarkBsnr]

Are you just LOOKING for Noah to correct you? ;^)

I name you Noah Count (yeah, it's lame, but it's the best I can do after laying into the local radio talk show host).

[svcw]

Very nicely stated: The Jewish people were the first to hear God. They are the elder brethren of the Christians. They are the vine that Christians are grafted in on.