Posted on 06/25/2011 10:48:16 AM PDT by Saundra Duffy
The creators of the play Book of Mormon have created the Amos and Andy for the South Park set. We may laugh, but our grandchildren will shudder as decent folk do at wits of the last century whose favorite dance was to jump Jim Crow.
The parts of the Book of Mormon I have seen are as innovative as a Newsies revival and as funny as the cruel, tasteless jokes told by an inebriated coworker at a Christmas party. The difference is that the coworker might sober up in the morning, but the mindless mockery that also gave us South Park will continue.
After all, the theater establishment toasted the two with Tonys and the insiders would never cheapen themselves by rewarding a play for picking on a minority religion loathed in the theater community or behave like decadent Romans horrified by a growing moral minority comforting the libertines by mocking the moral.
I cannot know for sure without seeing the entire play. If we assume the play a brilliant satire with PR unfortunate enough to release only the cruel and facile bits, then we are still left with two unfortunate truths about this play. First, the writers are cowards. They inflict pain and mockery on those already despised while going soft on the tired assumptions of their rich and powerful patrons. Second, in a pluralistic society they have targeted a group already misunderstood and discriminated against.
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Finally, the root problem is addressed. If they had this point right, but still had the magic bloomers and all the other differences, they would be a sect of Christianity that was sadly mislead on several doctrines. But this and this alone disqualifies the LDS from the Faith.
>>Even the discovery of DNA supports the wording of the bible.<<
Please elaborate.<<<<
It does not contradict what scripture teaches.
What 'courage'?
Typing on a keyboard?
What 'courage'?
Typing on a keyboard?
WHO has said anything bad about MORMONs??
It is mormonISM that is the HERESY. MORMONs are merely deceived by it's lies.
I've posted things printed by MORMONism, Inc.
Which of them do you agree with?
That's a good screen name.
It should remind MORMONs that is the time when their GOD wants them to eat meat:
DOCTRINE AND COVENANTSSECTION 89:12-13
12 Yea, flesh also of beasts and of the fowls of the air, I, the Lord, have ordained for the use of man with thanksgiving; nevertheless they are to be used sparingly;
13 And it is pleasing unto me that they should not be used, only in times of winter, or of cold, or famine
“They absolutely can **NOT** possibly be as bad as these anti-Mormonism posters claim. “
Mormonism is evil. Individual mormons caught in its web of deceit are good people in need of truth.
There are plenty of “bad” mormons, just like in every other sub-segment of humanity.
... which may I remind you the lords ways are not your way.
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and you need to be reminded Resty that the mormon lord’s way is not the way of the LORD God...
The LORD Jesus Christ said to Resty, “I AM the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No man or woman comes to the Father exzcept by Me.” John 14:6
That is a good one because only one book would have been given to you at the time....:)
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How woulod you know Resty ???
Ther mormon missionary who was stalking my bosses in 1968 gave them all ki9nds of material...books (”the mormon quad”) pamplets, illistrations, the works...
Over several weeks she worked her head off tryi8ng to win their money err “hearts” to the mormon CEOs err lord...
But then they were extremely rich and had a lot of land and lafter all isnt that what mormonism is all about
acquiring riches and real estate...
They kept resisting the mormon mission president kept sending more and more revealing info
I bet that since you were prostylated also in the 1960s, that I knew more about mormonism from reading that material and talking to my boss in one afternoon than you even know now...
There has not been a lot of new items on mormonism that i have learnt in these threads in the last few years..
The mnormons are still as greedy for filthy lucre and the basic idea is still Joey Smith and his little dog stone err peep stone and pay lots of protection money because we own “god”
Now now, go easy on Resty. She’s sensitive don’tchaknow.
Do you wear the garment both night and day as instructed in the endowment and in accordance with the covenant you made in the temple?
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OOOOOOO stinky people
Dont they ever take them off and have a shower ???
Do you wear the garment both night and day as instructed in the endowment and in accordance with the covenant you made in the temple?
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Tide will never get them stains out
If yu really want to gain an accurate picture of Mormonism, and you are a Christian but not a Mormon, do research on the Mormonism Melchizedek Priesthood. What you will find is the LDS inc corporation pushes young men into this faux priesthood and the very priesthood is a mockery of Whom Jesus IS, not was, not will be, but Whom Jesus IS! Jesus is the only Priest in the Melchizedek Priesthood because He is alive forever more and there is only one Melchizedek High Priest at a time, with a replacement happening only after the death of the riegning High Priest in the Melchizedek line. And believe it or not, that is only one of many blasphemies in Mormonism to which these fine young people are ensnared.
What kind of pie ???
:)
What a MEAN thing to say, you Hateful BIGOT!
--MormonDude(Just because she has no answer to then question: "What did Joseph Smith 'learn' to be 'untrue' about PRESBYTERIANism of his day?")
TRQ #11: Do you keep the Word of Wisdom?
TRQ #11: Do you keep the Word of Wisdom?
TRQ #11: Do you keep the Word of Wisdom?
TRQ #11: Do you keep the Word of Wisdom?
Speaking of HATS...
...with his face stuck in a hat.
"Now the way he translated was he put the urim and thummim into his hat and Darkned his Eyes than he would take a sentance and it would apper in Brite Roman Letters. Then he would tell the writer and he would write it. Then that would go away the next sentance would Come and so on. But if it was not Spelt rite it would not go away till it was rite, so we see it was marvelous. Thus was the hol [whole] translated."---Joseph Knight's journal.
"In writing for your father I frequently wrote day after day, often sitting at the table close by him, he sitting with his face buried in his hat, with the stone in it, and dictating hour after hour with nothing between us."
(History of the RLDS Church, 8 vols.(Independence, Missouri: Herald House,1951),"Last Testimony of Sister Emma [Smith Bidamon]," 3:356.
"I, as well as all of my father's family, Smith's wife, Oliver Cowdery and Martin Harris, were present during the translation. . . . He [Joseph Smith] did not use the plates in translation."
---(David Whitmer,as published in the "Kansas City Journal," June 5, 1881,and reprinted in the RLDS "Journal of History", vol. 8, (1910), pp. 299-300.
In an 1885 interview, Zenas H. Gurley, then the editor of the RLDS Saints Herald, asked Whitmer if Joseph had used his "Peep stone" to do the translation. Whitmer replied:
"... he used a stone called a "Seers stone," the "Interpreters" having been taken away from him because of transgression. The "Interpreters" were taken from Joseph after he allowed Martin Harris to carry away the 116 pages of Ms [manuscript] of the Book of Mormon as a punishment, but he was allowed to go on and translate by use of a "Seers stone" which he had, and which he placed in a hat into which he buried his face, stating to me and others that the original character appeared upon parchment and under it the translation in English."
"Martin Harris related an incident that occurred during the time that he wrote that portion of the translation of the Book of Mormon which he was favored to write direct from the mouth of the Prophet Joseph Smith. He said that the Prophet possessed a seer stone, by which he was enabled to translate as well as from the Urim and Thummim, and for convenience he then used the seer stone, Martin explained the translation as follows: By aid of the seer stone, sentences would appear and were read by the Prophet and written by Martin and when finished he would say 'Written,' and if correctly written that sentence would disappear and another appear in its place, but if not written correctly it remained until corrected, so that the translation was just as it was engraven on the plates, precisely in the language then used."
(Edward Stevenson, "One of the Three Witnesses,"reprinted from Deseret News, 30 Nov. 1881in Millennial Star, 44 (6 Feb. 1882): 86-87.)
In 1879, Michael Morse, Emma Smith's brother-in-law, stated:"When Joseph was translating the Book of Mormon [I] had occasion more than once to go into his immediate presence, and saw him engaged at his work of translation. The mode of procedure consisted in Joseph's placing the Seer Stone in the crown of a hat, then putting his face into the hat, so as to entirely cover his face, resting his elbows upon his knees, and then dictating word after word, while the scribes Emma, John Whitmer, O. Cowdery, or some other wrote it down."
(W.W. Blair interview with Michael Morse,Saints Herald, vol. 26, no. 12June 15, 1879, pp. 190-91.)
Joseph Smith's brother William also testified to the "face in the hat" version:"The manner in which this was done was by looking into the Urim and Thummim, which was placed in a hat to exclude the light, (the plates lying near by covered up), and reading off the translation, which appeared in the stone by the power of God"("A New Witness for Christ in America,"Francis W. Kirkham, 2:417.)
"The manner in which he pretended to read and interpret was the same manner as when he looked for the money-diggers, with the stone in his hat, while the book of plates were at the same time hid in the woods."---Isaac Hale (Emma Smith's father's) affidavit, 1834.
Yeah; I know the quoted line had a typo:
it's because I fear for their immortal souls if they remain blind in that cult.
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