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Anne Frank, a Mormon?
New York Times ^ | Oct. 18, 2011 | Maureen Dowd

Posted on 10/20/2011 7:24:57 AM PDT by Colofornian

At an appearance at George Washington University...Bill Maher bounded into territory that the news media have been gingerly tiptoeing around.

Magic underwear. Baptizing dead people. Celestial marriages. Private planets. Racism. Polygamy.

“By any standard, Mormonism is more ridiculous than any other religion”...“It’s...founded on the idea of polygamy. They call it The Principle. That sounds like The Prime Directive in ‘Star Trek.’ ”

He said he expects the Romney crowd...to once more “gloss over the differences between Christians and Mormons.”

SNIP

Another famous nonbeliever, Christopher Hitchens, wrote in Slate...about “the weird and sinister belief system of the LDS”...

Aside from Joseph Smith, whom Hitchens calls “a fraud and conjurer well known to the authorities in upstate New York,” the writer also wonders about the Mormon practice of amassing archives of the dead...to “retrospectively ‘baptize’ everybody as a convert.”

Hitchens noted that they “got hold of a list of those put to death by the Nazis’ Final Solution” and “began making these massacred Jews into honorary LDS members as well.” He called it “a crass attempt at mass identity theft from the deceased.”

The Mormons even baptized Anne Frank.

It took Ernest Michel, then chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, three years to get Mormons to agree to stop proxy-baptizing Holocaust victims.

SNIP

Kent Jackson, the associate dean of religion at Brigham Young University, says that while Mormons are Christians, “Mormonism is not part of the Christian family tree.”

It probably won’t comfort skeptical evangelicals and Catholics to know that Mormons think that while other Christians merely “have a portion of the truth, what God revealed to Joseph Smith is the fullness of the truth,” as Jackson says...

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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To: truth_seeker
Second Translation.

ANYone who intends on voting next time knows that only BLANK-BLANK-BLANK(Bad LIBERALs) can be so MEAN to poor ol' Mitt's religion, that he somehow now DESERVEs to be elected.

301 posted on 10/23/2011 6:47:08 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: truth_seeker
Anti-Mormonism is not an attraction to bring people to conservatism.
Anti-Semitism is not an attraction to bring people to conservatism.
Anti-Catholicism is not an attraction to bring people to conservatism.

Only Anti-ISLAMism IS an attraction to bring people to conservatism.

Gotcha...

302 posted on 10/23/2011 6:49:39 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: x
How would that work?

Who cares?

WIKI reported it; so it's either TRUE or not.


That's probably why he needed permission.

Probably?

303 posted on 10/23/2011 6:51:26 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: reaganaut
I’m just happy my mother showed up clothed. :)

LOL. She's a charmer. We really enjoyed meeting you all. Come back when we can spend some time to get into the important stuff like food and alcohol.

304 posted on 10/23/2011 7:47:16 PM PDT by Utah Binger (Southern Utah where INVITED Freepers will meet again next summer. Jim Robinson Too)
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To: Elsie

You’re working much too late. Besides I’m in trouble with my blond wife. She was working on that maze and lost her place on the first corner. Can you supply a good description of where the corner is?


305 posted on 10/23/2011 7:51:34 PM PDT by Utah Binger (Southern Utah where INVITED Freepers will meet again next summer. Jim Robinson Too)
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To: Utah Binger
You’re working much too late.

Merely balancing your much too EARLY!

39° 48' 27.2"
85° 47' 47.0"

Use the timeline to see different ones.

306 posted on 10/24/2011 5:39:04 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Elsie

Man, I slept in. Coffee working though as I sit in my little coffee shack listening to KMGR play music from the fifties.

Stayed up much too late watching the World Series.


307 posted on 10/24/2011 5:57:35 AM PDT by Utah Binger (Southern Utah where INVITED Freepers will meet again next summer. Jim Robinson Too)
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To: Utah Binger

Arrvgh!

I still don’t know how bad the COLTS got stomped last night...


308 posted on 10/24/2011 8:39:30 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Elsie

Indianapolis Colts 7 - New Orleans Saints 62

http://www.colts.com
Oct 23 1 2 3 4 T
Colts 0 7 0 0 7
Saints 21 13 14 14 62 «

That is what I call an ass kickin’ not a stompin’!


309 posted on 10/24/2011 8:52:37 AM PDT by Utah Binger (Southern Utah where INVITED Freepers will meet again next summer. Jim Robinson Too)
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To: Elsie
I would read it as a mental exercize,

I see it as an evasion tactic, non answer.

310 posted on 10/24/2011 11:03:41 AM PDT by itsahoot (There was a bloodless coup in 08, and no one seemed to notice. God help us.)
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To: Utah Binger

I quit watching as the 2nd quarter started as a repeat of the first.


311 posted on 10/24/2011 5:03:38 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: itsahoot
I see it as an evasion tactic, non answer.

I guess a person could; but for me, it was a red herring type of question; an Alice down the rabbit hole type of question, an angels dancing on the head of pin type of question.

Irrelevant, and time wasting: mere speculation and topic avoiding.


Anne Frank, a Mormon?

312 posted on 10/24/2011 5:06:51 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: itsahoot

Hey moron,

This whole discussion was centered around the office of presidency, which is at the federal level. My comments about “state-run” religion and all other posts in this thread were clearly meant at the federal level. You removed the context from my comments and tried to assume I was talking about all levels of government...but I wasn’t.

So, don’t try to lecture me on constitutional restrictions when you don’t bother to understand my posts.


313 posted on 10/24/2011 5:54:23 PM PDT by Turtlepower
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To: Turtlepower

Gee you assert it is unconstitutional, then state it isn’t. Why are you upset with me? I apologize for calling you a moron, I try to refrain from personal insults, and let the posts speak for themselves. I leave you to your own remarks.


314 posted on 10/24/2011 9:26:32 PM PDT by itsahoot (There was a bloodless coup in 08, and no one seemed to notice. God help us.)
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To: itsahoot

I’m not upset, but I felt the need to correct your erroneous comments, and now you’ve made another incorrect statement: “Gee you assert it is unconstitutional, then state it isn’t.”

When did I state “it isn’t”?

I responded to another poster that it would be unconstitutional for the FEDERAL government to promote a specific religion, but that I never advocated or wanted the FEDERAL government to act in that manner. For some reason, you felt the need to call me a moron and tell me it’s not unconstitutional for a government at the state level to promote a specific religion. I never disputed your point or even talked about state level government.


315 posted on 10/25/2011 7:51:50 AM PDT by Turtlepower
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To: Sudetenland

I can’t vote for Romney because Jesus comes first in my life, Romney’s religion is false and they pervert my savior

This song says it much better than I can

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqFsFY0M8WI


316 posted on 01/30/2012 9:23:15 AM PST by StPaulRevert
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