I know there are many aspects of Mormon theology which are downright bizarre and contradictory to Biblical scripture but I usually don't go out of my way to hit Mormons over the head about them. Many of these more oddball beliefs are kept quiet by the Mormons themselves. I know what I believe and can adequately defend those beliefs, but faith is a very personal matter and I think some of the rhetoric used in the religious slug fests that occasionally break out here at FR just get peoples' backs up and lead nowhere.
And for good reason. If they were to reveal those "oddball beliefs" while proseletyzing, they wouldn't be as successful as they are in converting those they do to mormonism. It is for this very reason that many post here about the "oddball beliefs" of mormons. To hopefully prevent more folks from getting misled or sucked into a faith that is not Biblical.
Asking basic questions of mormons on FR is what led a few of us out of mormonism as we began to question what it was exactly that we "believed". There is much to learn and much to discuss, yet it is usually a one-sided affair as almost to a man, not one mormon will debate the points. The comments almost always are directed at the poster, not the content or comment. A common tactic of Alinskyite, radical liberals in attacking the messenger, not the message. This has already been done in within the first 10 posts.
One is then left wondering, why? For me, it's because the doctrine, tenets and foundation of mormonism are incompatible with basic Christianity and are indefensible when compared to the Word of Christ and the Bible.
It sounded so much like Christianity when first approached about it and the good people that took care of my wife while I was deployed further convinced me that, outwardly, there was nothing remotely "wrong" with mormonism. I found that "revelation" in the D&C states that mormon males can become gods, to eventually rule over their own planet and to basically begin the story of the Bible anew by their own hand as a god. That passage alone led me to inactivity, yet not renounce the faith that I had converted to out of biblical ignorance.
Through reading the numerous threads about mormonism, I found that I didn't know half as much as I thought I did about the faith and it steeled my resolve enough to admit as much here on FR.
It was by being "hit over the head" that I finally woke up to what mormonism was really about. Sometimes, people just won't listen to reasonable discussion or they don't know where to turn for factual information. Sometimes, it takes getting "hit over the head" for folks to wake up.
I think some of the rhetoric used in the religious slug fests that occasionally break out here at FR just get peoples’ backs up and lead nowhere.
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There are at least TWO ex-mormons who would disagree with you. They both came out of Mormonism and into Christianity because of these ‘slugfests’.
Just sayin...