The realities of the Mormon faith will be superimposed as the imprimatur of the entire GOP! The face of Mormonism will be interpreted by the world as ridiculous, weird, racist, fraudulent, sinister, theocratic [baptizing even dead people], superstitious [magic underwear]
If Romney wins the nomination, Republicans will begin to feel the drag-down impact that Mormons have had upon Christianity. The bizarre will be associated with your very identity.
From the article: 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.”
The glossing-over was ramped up this week in a piece in the Washington Times and another source...where the writers tried the angle of focusing only on theological issues Mormons had in common with Christians while ignoring huge, glaring differences.
The Times writer even redefined Mormon basics as claiming that "salvation comes only through faith in Jesus and baptism in His name" -- ignoring Mormon teachings about the need to save yourself by lifting yourself up by your own bootstraps!
Yup. That’s Mormonism for you. Identity theft of the religious loved ones who have died. And identity theft attempts of Christianity with its attempt to hijack “Christian” as its own brand name – declaring the original Christianity as “dead and buried” Joseph Smith and generations of Mormons have attempted scorched-earth religio-politics, digging a mass grave for Christianity and attempting to build a new religion on top of our supposed tombstone.
The official doctrinal Mormon name for this is “universal apostasy.” It just means that they believe all Christian spiritual ancestors went AWOL long ago – meaning that you are spiritually illegitimate. That’s right. Lds teaches, in effect, that all Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox are spiritual bastards. We’re “illigit.” Because they believe our authority is lacking.
Yep...that's why Romney must be stopped now.
Kent Jackson, the BYU associate dean of religion, is infamous for trying to put the best spin on describing Christian denominations for one audience [go to the article to say all he said] – while in the past. He’s written extensively on the so-called “universal apostasy” of Christianity going back 27 years for his normal audience of Mormons. What follows is one example where Jackson labels Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox churches as under the umbrella of “the church of the devil”…doesn’t that just “inspire” all you Christian voters to vote for a Mitt Romney whose church teaches that your church is, to cite, Jackson, ”classified as ‘the church of the devil?’”
A. BYU professor Kent B. Jackson: "Since whoever does not belong to 'the church of the Lamb of God' belongs to 'the church of the devil,' as Nephi announced then all systems of worship outside of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints would be classified as 'the church of the devil' by Nephi's definition (Kent B. Jackson, "Watch and Remember" etc. from publication By Study and Also by Faith: Essays in Honor of Hugh W. Nibley on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday, 3/27/90, vol. 1, p. 87, citing 1 Nephi 14:9-10 from the Book of Mormon)
This could be a good thing, it would be a great way to educate the people in a huge way. The Mormon church has spent years trying to perfect their image but it wouldn't take much to undo that because the truth is damning to them.
I always find if funny when Mormons publicly denounce the FLDS as a cults....
Don’t forget about the Mountain Meadows Massacre on Sept 11, 1857 ...
While he later revisited that concept and discussed works, he ignored how truly self-focused the Mormon concept is of earning your way to godhood. Here's documentation of that:
Many people know of Spencer W. Kimball, the 12th "prophet" of the Lds church (1973-1985), as the man who allowed blacks to become Mormon priests in 1978.
But did you know Mormonism teaches you are all "gods in embryo"??? (And Kimball was one of its key proponents)
Did you know that Mormonism teaches the false "gospel" of self-transformation -- of pulling yourself up by the bootstraps to become a god? (And Kimball was one of its key proponents)
Spencer W. Kimball on these very topics:
1969 "Being a god in embryo with the seeds of godhood neatly tucked away in him, and with the power to become a god eventually, man need not despair...he must...transform himself..." (Spencer W. Kimball, The Miracle of Forgiveness, pp. 173-174)
A couple he was advising in Kimball's office "did not understand that forgiveness is not a thing of days or months or even years but is a matter of intensity of feeling and transformation of self...This couple seemed to have no conception of satisfying the Lord, of paying the total penalties and obtaining a release..." (Ibid, p. 156)
To Kimball, you had to "pay the total penalties" for your sin -- vs. that being a role occupied by the true Jesus Christ.
September, 1974: Man can transform himself and he must. Man has in himself the seeds of godhood, which can germinate and grow and develop. As the acorn becomes the oak, the mortal man becomes a god. It is within his power to lift himself by his very bootstraps from the plane on which he finds himself to the plane on which he should be. It may be a long, hard lift with many obstacles, but it is a real possibility. Source: http://speeches.byu.edu/reader/reader.php?id=6057 (Spencer W. Kimball speech entitled Be Ye Therefore Perfect 9/17/74 devotional address @ BYU)
1975: Man is created in the image of God. He is a god in embryo. He has the seeds of godhood within him, and he can, if he is normal, pick himself up by his bootstraps and literally move himself from where he is to where he shows he should be." Source: http://emp.byui.edu/marrottr/LovevsLust.pdf, "Love vs. Lust," Spencer W. Kimball, Provo: BYU Publications, 1975
November 1977: Self-mastery, then, is the key, and every person should study his own life, his own desires and wants and cravings, and bring them under control. Man can transform himself and he must. Man has in himself the seeds of godhood, which can germinate and grow and develop. As the acorn becomes the oak, the mortal man becomes a god. It is within his power to lift himself by his very bootstraps from the plane on which he finds himself to the plane on which he should be. It may be a long, hard lift with many obstacles, but it is a real possibility. To be perfect, one can turn to many areas as a starting place....As we have stated before, the way to perfection seems to be a changing of one’s life—to substitute the good for the evil in every case. Source: By President Spencer W. Kimball An address given to students of Weber State College, Ogden, Utah on 4 November 1977 http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourceId=244ed0640b96b010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD
July, 1978 Ensign Magazine: Lds church officially endorses Kimball Weber State College comments by publishing them in their official magazine
This quote also becomes part of Chapter 19 of what Lds officially teach college students in their Institute curricula: See http://institute.lds.org/manuals/doctrines-of-the-gospel-student-manual/doc-gosp-11-20-19.asp
This is in stark contrast to the Christian gospel of the Bible where we are saved thru faith, not works; otherwise we could boast in ourselves, said the apostle Paul. [See Ephesians 2:8-10]. V. 10 addressed the works we do -- that we ourselves are the worksmanship created by God...therefore even in our works, the Ultimate Artist, God, gets the credit and glory for any goodness arising from and through them.
WHAT does that mean??
Harry Reid and Milt Rominy (it rhymes with hominy, the huskless corn product) are appropriate poster boys for the “And I’m a Mormon” campaign.
Do we really need to vote for a guy who wants to be a god of his own planet?
“The NY Times will run its Mormon exposes’ non-stop!”
Magic underwear, their belief in revelation through a “golden salamander,” and other extreme oddities will make for non-stop ridicule. To this, the Democrats will add the fact that Romney became a billionaire on Wall St., the real cardinal sin for many voters.
The GOP has a death wish if it nominates Romney.
This is why the true battle is between Cain and Perry. On Super Tuesday, Romney will not win a single Southern state.
The liberals are going after the only serious GOP contender they could possibly beat or go along with their ideas.
Perversion of Christianity, of God and of Salvation Placemarker
Oooops! There it is.
Christians! To the back of the bus.
Mormons are more worthy than all others!
You have not received the fullness of God’s word. For some reason he hid it from you until it was revealed in Joseph Smith.
Christ did not die for your sins. He died for the sins of those who discovered the fullness of the God’s word after 1830.
All those who came before and all those who do not believe as we do are suckers who have been duped.
Mormons and Christians are not of the same tree.
Wow.
Guess there will be no reconciling their exclusivity.
Maybe they should have a holiday book like Neiman Marcus each year?
To the headline: That is the DUMBEST thing I have ever read.
Another day, another FR anti-Mormon hate thread. This time with left wing sourcing.