Posted on 06/03/2010 9:57:51 AM PDT by Colofornian
Josh Powell is apparently shopping around for a new church. On the website Susanpowell.org, which is widely believed to be written by Josh and his father, Steven Powell, there was this paragraph:
“Finding trustworthy spiritual support is more critical now than ever, since according to the media, members of the Mormon community had been pressuring Susan to divorce Josh on the basis of his beliefs. Josh and his family have recently enjoyed the fellowship of religious communities that share his and Susan's pro-family values. They have been investigating Christianity as an alternative to Mormonism. Vibrant faith communities in the local area have been very supportive and have been helping Josh and his family through the turmoil.” (Emphasis added)
But Kiirsi Hellewell, a close friend of Susan Cox Powell and a member of the same LDS Ward in West Valley, disputes the claim of a conspiracy to split up Josh and Susan. She said, “Everyone was extremely supportive. Everyone was very friendly to Josh. After Susan disappeared, everyone gave him the benefit of the doubt, helped him move, and invited him over for dinner. We did everything we could to help him.”
Friends of Susan cannot believe that Josh could abandon his faith over something the “media” might have said. It is equally unbelievable to the family of Susan Cox Powell.
Tuesday evening, the family issued this statement through a spokeswoman:
“Susan would be heartbroken. He is making decisions that are contrary to her wishes. She was the one who took the lead in matters of faith. We see this as another attempt by Josh to close the door on Susan and forget all about her.”
Hellewell was even more blunt, “Every decision he’s made since she disappeared has been against what she would want.”
This weekend marks 6 months since Susan Cox Powell disappeared from her home in West Valley City, Utah. Josh Powell remains the only person of interest in the ongoing police investigation.
From the report: ...according to the media, members of the Mormon community had been pressuring Susan to divorce Josh on the basis of his beliefs. Josh and his family have recently enjoyed the fellowship of religious communities that share his and Susan's pro-family values. They have been investigating Christianity as an alternative to Mormonism.
Christianity as an alternative to Mormonism?
How can that be? I thought they were one and the same or at least similar or on par?
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Tuesday evening, the family issued this statement through a spokeswoman:
“Susan would be heartbroken. He is making decisions that are contrary to her wishes. She was the one who took the lead in matters of faith. We see this as another attempt by Josh to close the door on Susan and forget all about her.”
Big mistake there in several areas.
Thank God he's seeing the light.
Actually seeing the light would entail admitting what he did.
What did he do with his wife ?
What did he do with his wife ?
wow big news, the man who is the only person of interest in the disappearance of his wife is changing churches. /s
Ah, excellent point. Here, this report says: Friends of Susan cannot believe that Josh could abandon his faith over something the “media” might have said.
Yet Lds & Lds FReepers tells all the time, "we're of the same Christian faith as you." So which is it? Are Mormons who abandon Mormonism and opt for Christianity "apostates" who "abandon their faith" -- or are they of the same faith cloth?
While we might agree with Powell's family that this would indeed be an "abandoment of the faith"...how is it Mormons are able to speak so freely out of both sides of their mouth?
On the one hand, they say if somebody abandons the Mormon church, they are an "apostate." But then with the other side of their mouth they claim, "we're Christian, too."
Which is it?
(Lds, it's a "multiple choice" Q...choose one for consistency purposes)
I find that this people group of lds clammier for divorce so easily. What about their PR sanctity of the family?
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“families are forever” only when everyone is doing what the Mormon church tells them to.
If one family member leaves the LDS church (especially for Christianity) ‘families are forever’ goes right out the window.
Siblings and parents disown you, church leaders tell your spouse to divorce you (in favor of someone worthy), kids don’t talk to you.
It isn’t ALWAYS the case, but often.
I still think this clown is guilty and I fear that this isn’t sincere but a way of gaining sympathy for him.
Briefly, his story is that the timing of his wife's disappearance exactly coincided with his spur-of-the-moment decision to leave his house at 2 a.m. on a Monday morning in subzero temperatures to go camping in the wilderness with his toddler-age children.
His failure to show up at work or at home the next day, and his failure to call or contact anyone was due to him innocently losing track of time.
“They have been investigating Christianity as an alternative to Mormonism”
That’s like saying I’m investigating spaghetti as an alternative to Italian food.
Christianity is the REAL alternative to Mormonism! It will be a great day when he accept the REAL Jesus, not the Mormon idea of Jesus.
“Siblings and parents disown you, church leaders tell your spouse to divorce you (in favor of someone worthy), kids don’t talk to you.
It isn’t ALWAYS the case, but often.”
Total baloney. You should be ashamed of yourself.
So if they abandon an Italian restaurant that bills itself as the "one and only true Italian restaurant on the face of the earth" (your parallel as applied to Mormon Doctrine & Covenants 1:30), they wouldn't be an "apostate" to true Italian restaurant food, after all? That would just be a religious myth made up wholesale by that Italian restaurant Inc?
They really could get true Italian restaurant food apart from that restaurant chain? And that Italian restaurant "bible" of how to run a restaurant chain...it just flat out lied in its D&C 1:30 equivalency passage? Which means the restaurant founder was a false Italian restaurant "prophet" -- all because he wanted to just market his own chain?
Not bologna at all Paragon. It happens in real life all the time. I am an example of the shunning that takes place when you leave Mormonism. I stand outside and apart from my family of birth.
I can even find a couple of articles here on FreeRepublic where I was publicly demeaned simply for leaving the religion.
That’s like saying I’m investigating spaghetti as an alternative to Italian food.
Now that makes more sense.
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