CTR
I am anti-anti-Mormonism. I am sick of hearing the sour grapes from the Romney camp, as if Romney did not have a ton of other bigger issues that turned off voters.
I’ve heard some idiots make remarks about the Mormon religion but I thought they were idiots BEFORE they started in on Mormons.
Rather than attempt to address the entire body of critics as merely being “anti-Mormon,” and thus, perhaps unfairly, lumping those who have honest intellectual agreements with the LDS church with those who are on a vendetta, I would like to see a comprehensive discussion of one highly particular issue—the authorship of the “Pearl of Great Price”—that seems to require a more “robust” defense than has been given so far. Either that was just an Egyptian funeral text or it was not. What do Mormon scholars say about that critique of Mormon church holy writ?
While I am sure there are distortions on Mormons just like any religion, once again, I went to the LDS bookstore, got the material they told me to read, bought it , read it, and I totally disagree with it. Not all I see here on this forum that is denied is untrue according to the LDS books. I am not trying to bash you who do believe, it is fine with me if you do. What does upset me over and over is the denial of things you do believe. If you believe it, defend it, but don’t deny it.
It might interest you to know that LDS is currently listed as the fastest expanding protestant religion in the U.S.
Having said that, the disagreement I have with Mormonism is the same I have with fundamentalist evangelicals believing in the literal truth of the Bible and RCs blindly accepting the non-Scripturally sound pronouncements of Popes venerating the Virgin Mary.
The factual evidence of science documenting that the earth is a lot older than the 10,000 years the Bible indicates and neither it nor the universe could have been created in a mere six 24-hour periods should be enough for most rational-thinking people...that is not to say there isn't a God or that there was an "intelligent design" in the making of it.
On the subject of Dr. Hugh Nibley, while a distinguished linguist he's, IMO, the right-wing equivalent of Noam Chomsky (also a noted linguist)...he was hardly a historian; in fact he was a little bit kooky. You may have known that he is the guy who fought against the BYU dress code in the 60s etc., urging some of the administration to allow students to "let their hair down" (i.e. hippie style).
One of the popular names for four of the groups is "Church of Christ", just the same as Obama's church.
No doubt some of the folks who posted some of the "insider" stuff on the Mormons are actually RLDS people who have a history of preparing their own apparantly anti-Mormon stories.
Not exactly sure that when a Mormon (which the RLDS branch are) says nasties about Mormonism that he or she is being anti-Mormon ~ more like a dispute between the Episcopals and the Catholics ~ who say far worse things about each other all the time!
Having read through all the threads that anyone has said had anti-Mormon materials on them I got the distinct impression that a good deal of it came from these "other" Mormon sources. Seemed terribly familiar if ya' dig!
***It is a common myth that anti-Mormon attacks have completely overwhelmed the intellectual position of Latter-day Saints, leaving us with nothing but blind faith in “warm feelings” we get about the Church.***
“Anti-Mormons” are not the ones that started this fight way back in the 1820’s when some dude from the backwoods of New York claimed to have found golden plates and then started attacking all other churches.
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There’s nothing I find less interesting than the topic of what other people believe. What possible difference could it make to any sane person?
Oh yes, I don’t care what your astrological sign is or your shoe size either.
How refreshing it would be to find and support a candidate purely on his or her ability to DO THE JOB.
Good Title!
Now it's time for...
I say, "No".
But, I don't have enough interest in the question to read all that in order to discover differently.
CTR!
It works both ways:
The portrayal of ANTI-Mormons as idiots without any intellectual foundation in our religion is a common caricature based on what is taught in the Temple Rites®.
Too true.
And the underwear is just the beginning.
The dogs bark and the caravan moves on.
Duh. The same reason we get down on anyone with non-biblical beliefs being passed off as Christianity.