Posted on 04/21/2008 7:29:14 AM PDT by JRochelle
Sheer repetition will not sway skeptics.
Delphi, the people who are hopping on to this FLDS mess and using it to smear the Mormon church are the same people who hijacked every Mitt Romney thread to smear the Mormon church.
It takes a particularly vile person to attack another’s religion the way these people do. And there is a nest of such vile people on FR, unfortunately. That’s why I quit donating.
You can’t reason with them. If you try in good faith to explain things, they ignore your valid points, twist what you said, and end up arguing with straw men.
Pearls/swine.
I am merely correcting what I can charitably call “mis-statements” rather than the blatant lies they really are.
50 plus wives? That is a definite lie of commission.
Your comment also prompted me to think: Do mainstream Mormons proselytize the fLDS? If not, why not? Do the mainstream Mormons send missionaries to fundamentalist Mormons in Hildale, UT & Colorado City AZ & Bountiful BC & certain parts of Juarez, Mexico? If not, that would seem to confirm the duplicity of Salt Lake's LDS HQ: Here they say fLDS is another "faith" yet for some reason this is the only "faith" not to receive standard house-to-house visitations from Mormon missionaries!
Good point.
I notice you posted the exact thing to another thread. It’s difficult to tell if this is satire or not.
Unfortunately you are repeating slanderous lies.
“What a thing it is for a man to be accused of committing adultery, and having seven wives,
when I can only find one”Joseph Smith (LDS History of the Church 6:411).
If you want to attack Brigham in this manner; I have no reply.
From the tenor of jwatz' posts, I deduce he is probably too young to drink, new to the FR mormon threads, and very possibly either a new convert or investigator.
In other words, someone you could mentor.
A person of strong conviction or prejudice, especially in matters of race, religion or politics, who is intolerant of those who differ with him.
"Bigotry"
The attitude, state of mind, or behavior characteristic of a bigot; intolerance.
Oh really, he didn't??
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For people who have no connection and disapprove of their practices, there are sure a lot of mormons defending this cult.
Actually Joseph Smith and Brigham Young did in fact practice polygamy. There shouldn't be any question there because it just is fact.
Now what that polygamy entailed is up for debate on both sides.
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