What a load of unadulterated guano. That "oath" was nothing of the kind. There was no vengeance sworn against the country. Vengeance was sworn against the cowardly murderers who mobbed together and killed Joseph and Hyrum Smith in cold blood, spilling their blood upon the ground of this nation.
The murderers of the Smith brothers died long, long ago. This author is a liar, a distorter, and has a personal axe to grind against the Church. Once again, he proves that many of those who leave the Church are incapable of leaving it alone.
Good article, thanks. I did learn a bit about Mormonism. know.
Not a very aggressive "cult" by any measure.
In fact not a cult, period.
You can vote for your preacher or better yet Hillary. I will stick with the issues. I’m more interested in high gas prices and terrorist attacks than your disgruntled view of the Mormon church! Get a life.
By the way, in full disclosure here:
1) I am a "Temple Mormon"
2) I am not a Romney supporter. I support Huckabee (although since he is a Baptist, maybe I should oppose him since, if he gets to be President, some Mormons might become Baptists?). I also like Hunter and Thompson, but neither of them has any executive experience. I could vote for Romney, but am leery of his recent conversion on many of the social issues.
You post an article attacking the Christian faith of a number of FReepers and millions of upstanding, Christian Americans and you want to keep it “civil”. How would you feel if someone were to dump all over your faith in this conservative forum? Tell me, in what way does this divisive post support or promote the conservative mission of this website? I tell you that it doesn’t. It distracts from that mission and sows division.
Pretty scary stuff ZGuy. It seems to me you put a certain spin on certain words to create a frightening scenario. And yet, despite the the picture you painted of a Mitt Romney presidency-sealed to his church by “blood oath”—you didn’t mention that our current Majority Leader in the Senate is also Mormon. To date, Harry Reid has never been reprimanded by his Senate colleagues or constituents for being a puppet. And the church has never censored him for the apparently contrary positions he has taken. According to the picture you painted, that’s not likely. I’m afraid that, with all your information, you left out many of the nuiances of the Mormon experience. It is just so much easier to paint Mormons as Branch Davidians than to confront the complexities of this movement, and it’s diverse people. You could take obscure Old Testament scriptures, blur the line between official doctrine and a leaders’ opinions, and make monster of just about any religion.
Ho Hum, the 2,134th justification for bigotry this month. Wake me up when you grow up.