Posted on 11/14/2012 3:52:19 PM PST by greyfoxx39
(Kinda just like when one is intolerant of others' alleged intolerance, eh?)
Good question to ask someone who collects dictionaries, thanks. I'd say the Oxford English is still held to be the gold standard, but unless you can access it for free at your library, you have to pay a fee. I'd tell you what dictionary Antonin Scalia uses, but I don't remember, and mine is in a box down in the basement.
Perhaps you should do some research on the good the mormans do with their money.
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Perhaps you should do some research. The LDS church takes in Billions per year and has spent less than .01% on that since 1984 (!) on humanitarian aid.
I saw the pics of them ‘helping’ in Haiti a few shanty tents outside their meeting house (about 5) - no one was allowed inside, no food nothing.
They spend their money on MALLS in SLC and business interests.
I can give you sources and books about what they really do with their money. They don’t open their books, but there is a paper trail.
I confess I don’t know much about JWs, other than that the ones I’ve personally known have always insisted they are Christians.
And so you're intolerant of those you perceive to be intolerant.
(And you picked up your religious license for intolerance where?)
In fact, you're intolerance is so extreme, you want to play god & decide who is -- and isn't -- to be "allowed" to be in an entire movement.
Wow!
And what's worse about all of this is that you don't even see the extreme level of intolerance you have...
Which means...your own words condemn.
You have decided who a "bigot" is...which makes you a "bigot" of them...which means, by your very own standard, YOU "don't belong in the conservative movement."
If they come for the Buddhists, I’ll have to find another catcher that can hit. That, or force his conversion on the bench. Or something.
You tried this before and all your nasty name-calling and thread highjacking failed to make any kind of impression on the Inmans other than to waste bandwidth.
Do your damndest. You mean less than nothing to us.
Yes there is. God didn't talk to Joseph Smith, that is a provably bogus story made up by a guy with delusions of something or other. That's like saying there's no difference between David Koresh or Jim Jones and Moses. The difference between David Koresh and Joseph Smith is that Joseph Smith convinced more people to accept his story.
That said, I am a big fan of Mormon values and their lifestyle. I never had a problem with voting for Mitt because he is a Mormon, not in 2008 and certainly not in 2012. I was apprehensive about him 4 years ago because I thought he would lose some of the evangelical vote, and in a tightly divided electorate, that could make the difference. I think the difference in the past 4 years among evangelicals is that they don't care about Mormonism when the alternative is a Muslim oriented marxist who hates America. It no longer was a big issue. Mitt sensed that as the campaign went on, and became more open about his faith, and I think it helped him when people saw how devout he was.
Now, the election is over. The anti-Christian doctrines of the mormon church are unchanged and God willing we won't see another mormon as a POTUS candidate no matter how "devout" he seems. His devotion is to his sect, not to Jesus Christ.
Actually, I found the the selection to be relevant. And I missed the name-calling and thread-hijacking, but you guys must have a history with each other. That no number of bottles of Scotch would make me care to decipher.
Other?
Friend; you SURELY can't still think that MORMONism is CHRISTIAN; after ALL of the educating that has been done on FR over the years?
Matthew 15:16
"Are you still so dull?" Jesus asked them.
Matthew 231. Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples:
2. "The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat.
3. So you must obey them and do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.
4. They tie up heavy loads and put them on men's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
5. "Everything they do is done for men to see: They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long;
6. they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues;
7. they love to be greeted in the marketplaces and to have men call them `Rabbi.'
8. "But you are not to be called `Rabbi,' for you have only one Master and you are all brothers.
9. And do not call anyone on earth `father,' for you have one Father, and he is in heaven.
10. Nor are you to be called `teacher,' for you have one Teacher, the Christ.
11. The greatest among you will be your servant.
12. For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
13. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.
14. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
15. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.
16. "Woe to you, blind guides! You say, `If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.'
17. You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred?
18. You also say, `If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gift on it, he is bound by his oath.'
19. You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
20. Therefore, he who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.
21. And he who swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells in it.
22. And he who swears by heaven swears by God's throne and by the one who sits on it.
23. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices--mint, dill and cummin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law--justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.
24. You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.
25. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
26. Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.
27. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean.
28. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
29. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.
30. And you say, `If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'
31. So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.
32. Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your forefathers!
33. "You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?
34. Therefore I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town.
35. And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
36. I tell you the truth, all this will come upon this generation.
37. "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing.
38. Look, your house is left to you desolate.
39. For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, `Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.' "
Mark 7:26-27
26. The woman was a Greek, born in Syrian Phoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.
27. "First let the children eat all they want," he told her, "for it is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs."
And St. Paul chimes in...
WHAT??
Don't you care; just a LITTLE bit; that MORMONism is a FALSE doctrine?
Yup; I've punded myself from time to time.
But I've NEVER given my life over to the collective that would keep me from playing half court basketball when I got back to church!
If no one cares what I think, I sincerely doubt that you would post that.
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