North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un rumored to be dead

NY Post ^ | April 25, 2020 | 12:36pm | Dana Kennedy

[Mark17]

I took a class on the Cult of Mary. It was interesting.

I am an ex catholic, so I knew about the cult of Mary. I am sure I didn’t know the half of it. Was the name Semiramis, the wife of Nimrod, ever mentioned in that class?

[SkyDancer]

Not that I remember. I have the handouts at home. It was mainly about the cult worship of Mary and the creation of the Rosary, etc.

[Mark17]

My opinion is, the worship of Nimrod and his wife, Semiramis, started the paganism. 😁

[Elsie]

1. I don’t know
2. I doubt it

[Elsie]

... the creation of the Rosary...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Rosary

(Hey the Mormons might get lucky and have this thread turn into a Catholic info one!!)

[SkyDancer]

Well if it turns into a Catholic info thread some of the Catholics might take it as Catholic bashing, which of course it wouldn’t be, but then who knows.

[Elsie]

Guess who??

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[Elsie]

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

[aMorePerfectUnion]

I think it’s now time to turn out the mormonic lights on this North Korea/Mormon thread...

...and turn our eyes toward the heavens...

To ponder our fellow personages living as Quakers on the moon, as Prophet Smith taught...

...those living on the Sun, as the Prophet Brigham taught us...

...and of course the many planets and their gods...

... But please do turn your eyes, should you glimpse our Mormon gods making whoopie...

...or tipping back a few too many at Spring Break on Kolob beach!

Best to you all.

[SkyDancer]

Yep. As the saying goes: They that are convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.