Posted on 05/24/2011 4:07:08 PM PDT by ken5050
As we enter the GOP primary season, I'm starting to notice more and more an annoying trend here in FR. It seems as though everytime there's an article, or someone posts a comment about Romney, either pro or con, it nearly always devolves into an extended, and acrimonious discussion about the Mormon faith. Those who defend it, and those who, for whatever reasons, can't abide it, both sides seem determined to wage an "end of times" batte on all the FR threads. Frankly, I'm tired of it, and just wish it would stop. I think that probably 99% of others here feel the same way.
If God created Jesus and God created Satan, then they would be 'brothers'.
Oh NO!!!
It must be time to DEFEND myself!!
Are you supporting the scum bag this time?
When JFK ran for president many people said many of the same things they are saying now, pop will run the country, etc.
Didn't happen, and those who were saying those things were considered to be uncivil. Now a lack of civility is considered a virtue.
That said, I don't want Mitt can't we conservatives do better?
Delph
And you have a problem with that du? If mormons are supporting a rino like romney - or a Catholic, Jew or Evangelical - they get the zot equally.
Mormons that got the zot recently received it because they accused Christians of being arsons and advocating physical violence against mormons in a couple instances. Another tried to tell off JR and wouldn't quit while behind and kept pushing it.
So if mormons are such romney supporter - they support a rino.
Explains why Reid keeps getting re-elected.
Personal attack?
YOU made the personal attack; I just commented on it.
You are certainly talking the talk of an anti-Christian.
I think this is what eastforker doesn’t care for, crap from hypocrites like you.
I have an early meeting so I’ll come back and read whatever BS you can pull out of Saul Alinsky’s playbook in the morning.
You might want to hit those knees a little longer tonight than usual because you already owe eastforker an apology and I am sure you will owe me one after your next post.
So; you've officially outted yourself as a freeloader. OK
Is that the LDS reasoning?
God created duck billed platypuses and fleas.
Are they brothers?
Love the absurdity of your postulation
Unless your are hopelessly stuck in a cult or are a confirmed atheist, I suggest again you read the Bible.
I don’t believe they have the correct answers, and I don’t believe Catholic’s have the right answers. The Catholic Church has a horrid history of torture basically but I absolutely do believe they believe in God and they believe Jesus is the Son of God. They did wrong.
I will not criticize any religion for different doctrinal beliefs (i.e. Calvinism).
I actually even used to think Islam believed in God until I realized God does not instruct his people to kill innocent people for not believing like they do. I likened attacks on other religions that also believe in God similar to what Catholics did in the middle ages and what some on FR are doing now. It’s persecution
Oh?
Matthew 15:16
"Are you still so dull?" Jesus asked them.
Matthew 231. Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples:
2. "The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat.
3. So you must obey them and do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.
4. They tie up heavy loads and put them on men's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
5. "Everything they do is done for men to see: They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long;
6. they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues;
7. they love to be greeted in the marketplaces and to have men call them `Rabbi.'
8. "But you are not to be called `Rabbi,' for you have only one Master and you are all brothers.
9. And do not call anyone on earth `father,' for you have one Father, and he is in heaven.
10. Nor are you to be called `teacher,' for you have one Teacher, the Christ.
11. The greatest among you will be your servant.
12. For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
13. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.
14. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
15. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.
16. "Woe to you, blind guides! You say, `If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.'
17. You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred?
18. You also say, `If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gift on it, he is bound by his oath.'
19. You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
20. Therefore, he who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.
21. And he who swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells in it.
22. And he who swears by heaven swears by God's throne and by the one who sits on it.
23. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices--mint, dill and cummin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law--justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.
24. You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.
25. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
26. Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.
27. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean.
28. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
29. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.
30. And you say, `If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'
31. So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.
32. Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your forefathers!
33. "You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?
34. Therefore I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town.
35. And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
36. I tell you the truth, all this will come upon this generation.
37. "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing.
38. Look, your house is left to you desolate.
39. For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, `Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.' "
Mark 7:26-27
26. The woman was a Greek, born in Syrian Phoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.
27. "First let the children eat all they want," he told her, "for it is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs."
And St. Paul chimes in...
Galatians 5:12
As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!
Who here on FR are being burned at the stake?
DU; you FINALLY get it RIGHT!!
God gave man dominion over the platypuses and fleas, not over the angels.
DU; you FINALLY get it RIGHT!!
DU; you STILL get it WRONG!!
You can’t rewrite his posts for him by attacking me.
What IS it with you MORMONs and UNDERWEAR?
Has anyone asked how Mormons feel about the constitution? (Just a hint, we think it was inspired by God and should be followed to the letter, complete with the prohibition on establishing a state religion)
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When did that happen ???
The state religion of Utah for decades was Mormonism
Are there any writings by Mormons during that time who agreed with your hypothesis ???
and lived ???
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