[Keep attacking Mormons with your little gang and eventually you will join the idiots at Liberty Post.]
And your little dog Toto, too!
Yikes, someone has their panties in a wad. Reminds me of the good old days of Don Morgan when he designated himself the thread police and decided what could and could not be said.
Fortunately, my new religion is composed of making voodoo doll effigies of jveritas out of dried apples. I pin notes to them that say “Kick Me! I’m Insane! I’m jveritas!”. This makes me laugh a great deal (I started a Happy religion!), because I know jveritas will NEVER break his own rule and say negative things about another man’s religion.
I plan to worship daily at the jveritas dried apple head voodo shrine, and make fun of jveritas, BECAUSE THAT IS MY RELIGION! Of course, since I am also a presidential candidate, this makes it even more impossible for jveritas to ridicule me, because he would NEVER mix politics and religion and come out and say “hey, you are a flaming monkeyboy, FastCoyote” because it is against the laws of political correctness (and the penumbra of the Contitution!) to say ANYTHING BAD ABOUT THE RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS OF A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. Please don’t let us down jveritas, accept my religious convictions as they are and let my Revelation stand for all to see!
Of course, this is all quite fun, making a religion out of mocking jveritas’ silly ideas and then watching him throw out insults because he can’t defend his position. We can expect the usual sputters of ‘bigot’, ‘cabal’, ‘gang’, etc. because when logic fails, what else is left but name calling?
But in our hearts we all know that when someone presents a logical hole as large as I have presented in jveritas’ reasoning, it really is time to slink away. But of course that won’t happen, that’s why I suspect I will need to keep the iconic “Kick Me I’m Stupid” jveritas religious doll for a long time to ward off the religious bigots who oppose my religion.
I’m a member of the Mormon church myself. I used to work as a computer programmer in the Church Office Building at 50 South Temple in Salt Lake City for the church. I served a mission. I taught at the MTC in Provo, Utah. I graduated from BYU. I married in the SLC temple. I used to be a Ward Mission Leader. I’ve spent over 4 years as a Counselor in a Branch Presidency or Bishopric. On my 28th birthday I was ordained a High Priest. I’ve been a Clerk in a Stake Presidency. All 9 of my siblings are very active in the church. They’ve all been married in the temple, all have kids who have all been blessed in the church and they’ve all graduated from BYU except the youngest and he’s 21 years old, finishing his 2 year mission at the end of this month and headed back to BYU & certain to head down that same path.
I’m frankly embarassed by those who are whining about any of the scrutiny the church faces. We live in the USA where our unalienable rights to freedom of speech are guaranteed by the Constitution. If people have questions about the church then we should do all we can to get them honest and truthful answers. Just criticizing and belittling them does no good but only backfires. Telling them the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about church history, doctrine, finances and governance will be what will earn the church and its adherents the most trust and respect.
Now I admit that I am no longer active in the LDS church. In 2000 I suddenly started believing that the Book of Mormon is fictional. There is absolutely no evidence at all of any of the peoples mentioned in the Book of Mormon. I spent alot of time trying to rekindle my belief in that book. I researched all the spiritual, scientific and historical arguments from all points of view in trying to understand it as thoroughly as possible. I read, pondered and prayed about it quite fervently for a very long time. I gave up alot personally in relationships and respect for being honest with myself and everyone on this matter. Frankly I find that Book to have too many overtones of racism too deeply ingrained into it and its time for all Mormons who are tolerant to speak out and condemn the parts of that book which are disgustingly racist.
Going through this struggle sure woke me up to alot of deeply ingrained Mormon cultural issues of deep intolerance, closed-mindedness and double-speak. There is alot of good in Mormonism. But there are also alot of problems that IMHO ought to be fixed if its ever going to have a reputation of being an ethical, trustworthy religion. I’m sure what I wrote here will offend some and bring them to weeping, wailing and gnashing of their teeth at me. To those who are offended I pray for rich blessings of peace to come your way.