>>>>Please if you have other questions, ask members of the church, not those who do not
>>>>understand our beliefs because they are not members. (You wouldn't go to Ford to
>>>>find out about a Chevy would you?)
>>Yeah, we all know that used car salesmen are the perfect 100% trusted sources of
>>information on the cars they sell! Go to them and never mind consumer mags
>>weighing different autos, never mind bringing your own mechanic in to evaluate a car.
So you are the Consumer reports of Religion are you? Can you give totally unbiased responses?
It is always a good idea to go to all the car dealers (to continue the metaphor) and not tell them you are looking at other dealers’ offerings. Then go to any unbiased source of information (in this case, the only one that matters, God) and then based on what you know, decide. To me religion is way more important that a car purchase, and comparing honest practitioners of a religion as used car salesmen is beneath this forum, and disingenuous as well.
First of all, you slam (by implication, not directly) all used car salesmen as dishonest--somehow believing that any and almost all religious practioners are somehow heads and shoulders above all used cars salesmen.
I would say it's more balanced than you think: There are more upright, Christian (even LDS, mind you) used car salesmen than you give them credit for being; and likewise, there are more dishonest religious practioners than you apparently care to concede.
I'm sure if you interviewed the thounsands of distinct religious adherents out there, you'd come up with a very high % who would consider themselves an "honest" practitioner. Yet how many JWs, how many New Age offshoots, how many self-improvement cults, how many voodoo and wicca and occultic based groups, how many koolaid cults are either weak representations of the original (at best) or are outright fraud at its flashpoint of origin? Who cares if folks are sincere in their beliefs. You can be sincerely wrong!
I mean just look at the high number of LDS off-shoot sects. You think those folks consider themselves "dishonest"?