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To: CanaGuy
The cult currently owns large tracts of land in Utah, Hawaii and Canada, along with owning the Marriott Hotel chain, Beneficial Life Assurance Company along with many television and radio stations.

Gee, you forgot their black Angus farms in Florida.

You forgot to mention their canning factories and distribution facilities.

What do they DO with these large tracks of land?

Well, they grow and process food for the poor, both in their church across the world and, quietly, plane and truckloads for people suffering from natural disasters.

The ministry is a lay ministry. The Bishops, etc, are not salaried. They make their own living, like everyone else and freely give their time. Unlike most churches, the leaders, Bishops et al, are not the ones who stand and 'preach' in front of everyone else each Sunday. Instead, Two adults and two young people will speak - different each Sunday. No one knows or has to approve what they choose to speak on ahead of time - they choose a theme, related to the gospels and gospels precepts and share their thoughts on them.

There's no plate passed around for money - so visitors are not coerced to contribute.,,and members tithe without public scrutiny.

When members/families come on hard times, they don't have to turn to the gov't. The church will provide food, pay rent/mortgage/utilities = do everything they can to get them back on their feet. They take God's admonition to provide for the poor, hungry, fatherless, etc,. literally.

No one is forced or coerced to attend - and unlike some other churches, no one is shunned. They can get excommunicated for egregious actions that break the Commandments - no different than other churches.

The adult Sunday school studies both the Bible (SJV) and the Book of Mormon from the first to the last verses - when they get through, they start over again.

Also,they do not denigrate other religions.

Such terrible people!

You sight selectively and from hostile sources, most of it laughably wrong.

I take it you're definitely not Catholic, or just about any other church affiliation, if you're judging a Church by it's history? - and from such dubious sources.

hundreds and hundreds of ex-Mormons finally have the freedom to explain the truth

Any one is free to leave at any time and Freedom of Speech is alive and well.

Your posts, dripping with venom and ignorance, are tripe. Take a few deep breaths, take a walk, take a chill pill.

For others who might be reading these posts, with the Internet, it easy to go to the source for ourselves and use our own minds,,,

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http://lds.org/portal/site/LDSOrg

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(statue in SLC)

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here's some videos, from the above link, of some of those terrible cultists...

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http://lds.org/images/home.jpg

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for you, CanaGuy, you probably should avoid the site. You've invested too much time in hate and misinformation...some of it truly comical.

54 posted on 09/23/2007 7:42:02 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (",,,but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." LINCOLN)
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To: maine-iac7
The adult Sunday school studies both the Bible (SJV)

Oh, you mean the "insofarascorrectly translated" Bible?...which you would think would be the Joseph Smith "translation" (of course Joseph knew little Greek or Hebrew)...but, no...Salt Lake City Mormon HQ doesn't advertize or publish Joe's "translation" other than including some of his "translations" as footnotes...

Also,they do not denigrate other religions.

FUNNY (as in hilarious). Let's see now. The LDS publish a certain "scripture" known as Pearl of Great Price, Joseph Smith - History, verses 18 & 19 in which the LDS circulate world-wide and send their missionaries door to door to pedal. And what's the claim of those verses?

(1)EVERY single creed of every other church is an "abomination" to God. (No, that's not denigrating)

(2) Every other church's leadership is "corrupt." (No, I'm sure that's really a compliment, assures the spin artist from Maine).

(3) None of these churches are to be "joined."

I could go on with the content of these verses. Suffice it to say that perhaps you'd like to backtrack and re-state your supposition.

62 posted on 09/23/2007 9:37:23 AM PDT by Colofornian
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