Hush yer Mouth about Black Liberation Theology!
Posted on 10/25/2012 3:54:15 PM PDT by lbryce
What would you think if you were told that the most bigoted, intolerant, hateful, and xenophobic political messages this election cycle are being spread by Obama supporters?
From ridiculing and disrespecting the Mormon religion to spreading secretly taped videos recorded by an Obama supporter in a Mormon church, those on the left are sanctioning this particular form of bigotry because it’s all for the cause: Obama.
Nowhere is this more obvious than in the media, where pages upon pages have been devoted to Romney’s religion. Vicious, anti-Mormon rhetoric, ramping up in the final days leading up to the election, has been spread by MSNBC and CNN hosts, the New York Times (they have devoted an entire section of their website to articles about Mormonism), Washington Post, and the Daily Beast’s Andrew Sullivan, to name a few. Yesterday, Breitbart’s John Nolte revealed that Gloria Allred’s October surprise client is spreading anti-Mormon hate around the Internet.
In one recent segment, which I took notes on right after the Tampa convention, Rachel Maddow, having attacked the religion in various ways and perhaps sensing her own intolerance, offhandedly remarked that everything she had said was “ok” because Romney mentioned his faith in his convention speech, rendering it fair game.
A quick perusal of the search results for “Mormon” on Salon.com, which resulted in 5 pages of results, reveals such headlines as “Is Mormon underwear magic,” ”What we should ask Romney about Mormonism,” and “Ann: Mormon missions are just like military service!”
(Excerpt) Read more at legalinsurrection.com ...
You can choose to mock Christianity in service to Mormonism, but I meant something like this Catholic site.
HERE IS THE CATHOLIC TEACHING ON MORMONISM:
“Mormons are not Christians. The Mormons will claim to be Christian because they claim to follow Christ, and believe in the Bible. They say that Jesus is a god, but not THE God. They also believe that Lucifer is the brother of Jesus, and neither do they believe that there is fire in Hell.”
“Mormons say that Christ came to teach the truth, but that it was lost when the Apostles dispersed. No one had the truth for over 1800 years until God saw fit to enlighten Joseph Smith in 1823 (that is why they baptize all the dead people who missed out). Besides their strange historical mis-accounts, Mormons also have a warped theology.”
“By following all the rules and ordinances of God here, Mormon men and women have the potential of also becoming gods”
“Mormons believe that there are many worlds and many gods. Each god is similar to God the Father, having the same powers and omnipotence, and even being able to create their own worlds. “Heavenly Father” is only the name of the god who rules over this world.”
http://www.catholicapologetics.info/apologetics/protestantism/mormns.html
That is how the religion of Mormonism was designed in 1800s America, it was meant to appear as Christian, at the first stages, it is how they recruit, they even carry the bible along with the Book of Mormon.
Mitt Romney is currently in the process of becoming God. Read post 21.
I think you’ve been buying into some of the many false claims anti-Momons make. Creepy is a matter of opinion, I find the idea of eating something that has magically turned into human flesh and blood kind of creepy. As for micro-managing, that isn’t right at all, the philosophy of the church is to teach correct principles and let people govern themselves. Tithing and offerings are voluntary and while every church has hypocrites in it, the church itself conducts itself with honor.
Also, the united order was very different than collectivism, and if you look in the early part of Acts you can see the apostles doing the same thing.
Mormons believe in Jesus Christ of Nazareth as the Son of God, that he was born of a virgin, lived a perfect life, performed miracles, suffered for our sins, died on the cross, rose on the third day, and that only through him can be return to be with God.
That makes us Christians, and all the other differences don’t change that. We use the Bible and in fact a recent study shows the average Mormon is more knowledgeable about the Bible than the average Evangelical.
Look, I’ve lived in UT over 40 years. I was born here. Let’s not play the “You’ve got little understanding of Mormonism” card.
So, those who are 'saved from obedience' (don't recall that teaching in the bible) can just go and disregard everything God has asked them to do and expect all the blessing of heaven? Interesting.
Every Christian church looks at your religion and says the same thing, it is not Christianity, that you use and distort “Jesus” in a bizarre, untrue fashion.
See post 21.
Actually, I’m not.
I’m just saying that there’s plenty of sects out there, some bad and some not so bad. As bad goes, the Mormons are nonstarters.
Mormonism is a unique, new religion, a polytheistic religion designed to appear as Christian, while it’s adherents strive to become Gods, as our God is to us, it even places the bible next to their own holy book to advance the Christian theme.
Mormonism is the worst of the bad, it doesn’t want to kill you, it wants to steal your soul while whispering Jesus in your ear.
religious bigotry?
Had to read the post to see that it wasn’t a holdover from the last go-around about good ‘ol Mike Huckabee. He spewed some pretty nasty stuff in his day.
How many angels on the head of a pin, and all that...
That is how the religion of Mormonism was designed in 1800s America, it was meant to appear as Christian, at the first stages, it is how they recruit, they even carry the bible along with the Book of Mormon.
Mitt Romney is currently in the process of becoming God. Read post 21.
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Post 21 provides Catholic teachings concerning the Mormon faith. Which inadvertently makes my point.
Look at it this way. Don’t Catholics hate the bigotry shown them by those who lack understanding?
To make my point. The Nicene Creed of the Catholic Church states that they are “the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church”. But my childhood faith taught me otherwise.
The faith of my childhood did not understand praying to saints, sprinkling instead of immersion, confession to a priest rather than to Christ in prayer and a priest offering absolution, which is Christ’s alone to give - heresy! The “joke” was: “a Catholic can do anything on Saturday night because come Sunday, a man will forgive him”.
I hold no condemnation for the Catholic faith or the Mormon faith. I did not say what I said to be ugly, but to point out that Catholics have no room to critisize what they do not understand, while asking people to understand them.
The Catholic Church has its own teachings, which I respect and admire, though the Church of my childhood believes that praying to Saints is not Christian, because Jesus said “the only way to the Father is through Me”.
My point? Not to condemn the Catholic Church at all - nor the Mormon Church.
“In fact, early Mormonism was a collective, until they saw that it didn’t work.”
ALL early pioneers practiced ‘collectivism’. It was the only way a community could survive. The Mormons just did it better than most, ie, the first preppers.
Wyrd bið ful aræd: Looks like we don’t have to visit the DUmp to get the liberal bigoted talking points. There’s plenty here to go around.
Mormonism is a religion that Christianity is in full agreement about, no Christian denomination, Protestant, Greek Orthodox, or Catholic accepts it as Christian, and EVERY denomination requires Christian baptism for a Mormon convert.
Lutherans, Baptist, Methodists, Presbyterians, etc., all on the same page about the polytheistic religion where God was just a man like Mitt and who Mitt will become to the worshipers on HIS own planet as our God is to us.
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And you have throughly studied and been a member of ALL Christian denominations to such an extent that you speak for them and their members?
Funny that. I don't remember such bigotry in the ranks of my church - maybe you missed one.
Total nonsense.
Are you just bluffing your way thru this post, thinking no one will call you on it, Panaxanax?
Well, I'm calling...
Lds author George W. Givens was an author in good standing with the Lds church. He wrote several books, one of which is entitled: 500 More Little-Known Facts in Mormon History
Givens was writing about the Mormon United Order -- as follows:
"When Brigham Young etablished Orderville and similar United Orders, John Taylor" [ensuing Lds "prophet" to Young] "was less than enthusiastic. He realized that enterprises such as Orderville were pure communism and not the law of consecration." (p. 169)
The Mormon "United Order" was a simple redistribution of wealth system -- community by community -- and imposed by a religious hierarchy.
Lds "prophet" John Taylor realized no scriptural basis for United Orders & dismantled the one in Orderville (he also cited other reasons such as "Our relations with the world and our own imperfections prevent the establishment of this system at the present time, as was stated by Joseph in an early day, it cannot yet be carried out.") (Givens' book, p. 169)
If, as you lamely claim, Pan, "ALL early pioneers" practiced what the Mormons did...then why did 3rd Lds "prophet" John Taylor cite precisely that relationship that Mormons had "with the world" as one of the reasons for the disestablishment of the United Order? If "the world" was operating on the same basis, it would have reinforced what the Mormons were doing...not countered it!!!
Really. I think my Precious Bodily Fluids are quite safe, thank you. Even if there’s a Mormon in the White House.
Well, the tie 'tween Catholics & "bigotry" inadvertently makes my point -- as follows:
"Bigot" is etymologically tied to "Beguines." It was used abusively in French for the Beguines, members of a Roman Catholic lay sisterhood, with the meaning of attaching "excessive devotion" to this sisterhood...(yeah, the devoted do get slapped around a bit).
So, “bigot” in its original usage was tied to perceived intolerance. (I don’t know if the Beguines were actually intolerant or not). The Beguines were probably at least perceived as practicing "spiritual one-upsmanship"--and others didn't like it--they felt looked down upon. Perhaps they felt scorned because such sisterhoods tended to isolate themselves more and because of that, the Beguines perhaps were perceived as being spiritually snooty ("we don't like how excessively devoted they are").
But to wind this back to what I said. "Bigot" is originally tied to "excessive devotion." I suppose it's possible that the Beguines were indeed "excessively devoted." (It's also just as possible that the other Catholics' perception was largely wrong...but once a reputation develops...). But let's just say they were excessively devoted. If that's the name-slinging you wish to engage in, KittenClaws, I'll just recommend others the high road and claim a historical context.
But if you want to insist on a contemporary usage of that term -- that "bigot" means "intolerant" -- then you need to answer this Q. Because aren't you showing religious intolerance toward critics of Mormons? On what grounds is your "intolerance" so "allowable" and therefore comes as across as "elitist," whereas anyone else's perceived religious "intolerance" is called into question?
Back at it......antiAmerican bigotry at it’s worst.
You are offensive to all Americans
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