That is your problem CG, every church has their different and odd ways and I believe in let them practiced as their conscience dictates.
Who am I too stick my nose in their meetings and tell them they need to follow my way and if they don’t I will speak ill of them...
some here think it is their right to scorn others into submission to their beleif or else!
I know the differents from the provocateurs here and what the Church really said in context
That is your problem CG, every church has their different and odd ways and I believe in let them practiced as their conscience dictates.Are you prepared to DENOUNCE the LDS missionary activities? Publicly???
If not, your above statement is nothing but hypocrisy. Its the old "do as I say not as I do" approach. As long as the LDS seeks converts, going door to door proclaiming the LDS as the only true church and all others apostate you don't practice what you preach. If you truly believe everyone gets to practice 'as their conscience dictates' you would be opposed to any and all LDS missions.
No Resty, my problem is nothing more and nothing less than refusing to sit back and watch people go into eternal damnation and say nothing. If you don't believe what I say fine. My first amendment rights dictate that I may freely speak my conscience whether you like it or not, unless of course the 1st amendment only applies to Mormons???
Who am I too stick my nose in their meetings and tell them they need to follow my way and if they don’t I will speak ill of them...
some here think it is their right to scorn others into submission to their beleif or else!
I know the differents from the provocateurs here and what the Church really said in context OH, REALLY?
From Joseph Smith to Brigham Young to Heber Kimball to Orson Pratt to Bruce Mcconkie to Gordon Hinckley, your mormon leaders have scorned others' beliefs and uttered provocative statements.
Those who try to claim scorn of others should read the statements of these leaders, SAID IN CONTEXT.
“I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in His sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that: ‘they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof.’”
“He again forbade me to join with any of them; and many other things did he say unto me, which I cannot write at this time. When I came to myself again, I found myself lying on my back, looking up into heaven. When the light had departed, I had no strength; but soon recovering in some degree, I went home. And as I leaned up to the fireplace, mother inquired what the matter was. I replied, ‘Never mind, all is well—I am well enough off.’ I then said to my mother, ‘I have learned for myself that Presbyterianism is not true.’
Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr., Joseph Smith–History, v. 1, pp. 8–26
"With a regard to true theology, a more ignorant people never lived than the present so-called Christian world."
- Prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, v. 8, p. 199
"Christians—those poor, miserable priests brother Brigham was speaking about—some of them are the biggest whoremasters there are on the earth, and at the same time preaching righteousness to the children of men.
Apostle Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses, v. 5, p. 89
"Both Catholics and Protestants are nothing less than the ‘whore of Babylon' whom the Lord denounces by the mouth of John the Revelator as having corrupted all the earth by their fornications and wickedness. Any person who shall be so corrupt as to receive a holy ordinance of the Gospel from the ministers of any of these apostate churches will be sent down to hell with them, unless they repent."
- Apostle Orson Pratt, The Seer, p. 255
“... all the millions of apostate Christendom have abased themselves before the mythical throne of a mythical Christ.... in large part the worship of apostate Christendom is performed in ignorance, as much so as was the worship of the Athenians who bowed the Unknown Gods.”
- Apostle Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, pp. 269, 374-375
“We accept that as a statement which came to him [Joseph Smith's vision in which he was told all other religions were "abominations"], which is printed, of course, and published in his history as a statement.
Prophet Gordon B. Hinckley, interview with Richard Ostling, as quoted in Mormon America, by Richard and Joan Ostling, p. 323