Posted on 05/04/2010 12:01:07 PM PDT by Colofornian
From the article: The victim's boiling point was reached when $3,600 in BYU football tickets were charged to her card, Lemmon said. This included a membership in the BYU Cougar Club, a tickets package that provides high-priority seating, gifts and parking passes to those who pay yearly dues, which run from $50 to $1,000, depending on the level. The victim demanded her card back, and he refused in a "smooth way," he said. "He was still playing the religion card," Lemmon said. "She finally said, 'Enough is enough.'"
Savage became acquainted with a 74-year-old woman at a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints singles dance
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Say what ???
What Joey Smith could have done with credit cards...
Alert the FIRING SQUAD!
Which “local political campaigns” was this creep involved with? Since there’s no political affiliation mentioned, I assume he’s a RAT.
What IS it with these LDS folks that tend to believe people in authority?
Granny gettin' DOWN!
Yes, if a Mormon does something bad it must mean all Mormons are bad! Because Baptists, Catholics, Presyberterians and Lutherans never do anything bad and if it does it never says anything negative about the entire religion, right?? What about the vast majority of hard working, law abiding Mormons who are good neighbors and citizens?? Nah, couldn’t be! Not those evil Mormons. I see the Mormon obsession continues with ole’s Colo and Tennesee! But hey, it’s easier to post a crime blotter piece to try to trash an entire religion than to actually espouse your own beliefs in an affirmative way.
You mean like what Protestant televangist crooks have done like Oral Roberts and Jim and Tammy Faye Baker and so many others?
(So the first words out of your keyboard on this thread is that you're defending this exploiter of an elderly person -- and not siding with the victim? What? Did you just "feel the need" to be the personal apologist of this scammer?)
Secondly, Baptists, Catholics, Presbyterians and Lutherans to my knowledge actually say that the qualification for being members of these churches and the doctrinal ties linked to them is that they need to actually admit they are sinners.
Mormons? No. Mormons claim actually that when they are born into the church, they are 100% totally innocent for at least the first 8 years of life.
Furthermore, they deny the doctrine of "original sin" -- meaning that people have inherited a sin nature down through this day from Adam & Eve.
In addition, Lds leaders call fellow Mormons "gods in embryo" -- and that the spirits that inherited their bodies were perfect spirit beings who lived perfect spirit lives on another planet before inhabiting some body on earth (either in embyronic or birth process).
So, believe me. If you were a member of XYZ Church...and your leaders claimed that...
(1) We're completely innocent creatures for the first 8 years of our lives;
(2) And before that, in another life on another planet, our spirits were 100% perfect there;
(3) And after this life, we will be a "god" -- yes the kind of god you pray to, worship, adore, glorify, and yes, beyond all you mere mortals, etc.;
and (4) Until then, well, we're "gods-in-embryo"...
...tell me, Mrs. Bush, who's upped the moral standard as to who they are? Bottom line: The contrast is MUCH greater. (And that's also why Jesus was so harsh-sounding on the religious legalists, the Pharisees, 2,000 years ago)
What Joey Smith could have done with credit cards...
There’s a crowd of Mormon bashers on FR. Very self righteous (holier than thou), they never miss a chance to denigrate, slander, denounce, decry...well, you get the picture.
BTW, the predator should be denounced and if possible, prosecuted.
They do?
Wow...
I would like to see that, especially the slander, denigration etc.
All is see is folks posting and exposing LDS doctrine, beliefs and such....
Oh, wait, that slanders and denigrates Christ and Christians...
Ok, I have seen it then...
Theres a crowd of Mormon bashers on FR. Very self righteous (holier than thou), they never miss a chance to denigrate, slander, denounce, decry...well, you get the picture.
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Yeah I do...
I’m one of the victims...
Those mormon bashers of Christians bash me because I’m a Chrsitian...
and I kepp saying that the Bible is the only Word of God...
and that Jesus shed his blood on the Cross and died on the Cross and rose again the third day to save us...
and that the Trinity is true...
and that the Virgin mary never had sex with man or god or any other male of any type of species in order to conceive jesus...
and that Jesus was not married nor had children...
and Jesus was not a polygamist...
and that the God of the Christian Bible was not a polygamist...
and that polygamy is not necessary to get into Heaven..
and that Jesus never lost or misplaced His Church...
and that the Church that Jesus built has continued for the last 2,000 years none stop..
and that only Jesus is our judge...
and so on down through the doctrines of Chrsitianity...
Yeah I get bashed a lot by the mormon bashers of Christians...
Thanks for noticing...
:)
The jump is from a 56 year old to a 8 year old. How do we get there?
I can’t see any place where this man was a member of the LDS Church.
This video, featuring Peter Popoff, is the first of several that illustrates how TV evangelists prey upon the naive and gullible with their foolishness. It is disgraceful that TV stations allow these dangerous hucksters to practice their superstitious nonsense on our airwaves.
http://vidchili.com/video/kMv64zAEOXx/Televangelists_Exploiting_the_Gullible_Part_1/
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