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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The letters depicted Mormonism as based on "hoaxes" and ridiculed the church's founder, Joseph Smith, as a "gold digger turned prophet."

Okay. That's true.

The mailing also provocatively dubbed Smith "the Mohammed of the West."

Smith called himself that. So, this is true, also.

"Like the prophet of Islam," it said, "Smith founded his religion upon prophecies and revelations which commanded him to become a polygamist and warlord.

Uh, this is true, too. Facts are difficult things.

9 posted on 11/03/2007 7:42:46 AM PDT by Gurn (Remember Mountain Meadows.)
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To: Gurn

I could go around pointing out the theological errors and wrong statements of church leaders of a number of Christian sects, e.g., the pentacostalists or methodists. But putting them anonymously in brown envelopes and sending them to people expressly to harm a political candidate’s chance simply because he adheres to that particular sect, that is taking a theological opinion to a deranged and misplaced level.

“If you follow the logic Mr. Chesser relays to us from dogmatic anti-Mormon Christians, then no true Christian should ever vote for anyone of no faith or any other faith. That means no Jews, no Moslems, no Hindus, no Buddhists, no Atheists, no Agnostics, no Deists, in short, no nothing unless the candidate avows an approved Christian religion. It wasn’t that long ago that that type of bigoted thinking included Catholics. And as much as Protestants keep having internal struggles and splitting up to form new churches, if you follow that despicable logic to its bitter end, then nobody will be acceptable unless they are from your own particular Christian Sect.”
http://spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12256


12 posted on 11/03/2007 10:09:13 PM PDT by WOSG (Pro-life, pro-family, pro-freedom, pro-strong defense, pro-GWOT, pro-capitalism, pro-US-sovereignty)
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