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...Its...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.
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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.
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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 wont 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 ...
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.
Only Anti-ISLAMism IS an attraction to bring people to conservatism.
Gotcha...
Who cares?
WIKI reported it; so it's either TRUE or not.
That's probably why he needed permission.
Probably?
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.
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?
Merely balancing your much too EARLY!
39° 48' 27.2"
85° 47' 47.0"
Use the timeline to see different ones.
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.
Arrvgh!
I still don’t know how bad the COLTS got stomped last night...
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’!
I see it as an evasion tactic, non answer.
I quit watching as the 2nd quarter started as a repeat of the first.
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?
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.
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.
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 isnt.”
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.
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
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