DEVINE comedy at that!
Posted on 09/29/2010 3:05:05 PM PDT by zippythepinhead
Atheists and agnostics know more about major world religions than many people of faith, while Mormons can answer more Bible questions than their Catholic and mainline Protestant counterparts.
Those are among the somewhat startling conclusions about religious literacy in America the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life drew after surveying 3,412 Americans.
Some of the multiple-choice questions were relatively simple: Where was Jesus born and who led the exodus from Egypt? What religion was Mother Teresa, what day does the Jewish Sabbath begin and what is the name of Islam’s holy book?
Others were more obscure: What is Indonesia’s dominant religion? Which Christians teach that salvation comes through faith alone?
About half the Protestants (53 percent) couldn’t correctly identify Martin Luther as the person whose writings and actions inspired the Protestant Reformation. Fewer than half of Americans (47 percent) knew the Dalai Lama is Buddhist and only 38 percent correctly associated Vishnu and Shiva with Hinduism.
John Morehead, director of the Western Institute for Intercultural Studies in Salt Lake City, had already noted religious illiteracy in the general population as well as in the evangelical community. But he did not expect Mormons to top them in their biblical fluency.
“Mormons tend to emphasize Mormon scriptures like the Book of Mormon rather than the Bible in their devotional life,” Morehead said in an e-mail.
Even some LDS scholars were surprised to find Mormons at the top.
(Excerpt) Read more at sltrib.com ...
At no time did I curse you and want to blame others for situation you have created all on your own!
It seems i am the closes you can try to take a swipe at...
Will it don’t fly with me nauthy boy....
Glad you admin what your tradition of men have done who are not prophets nor apostles of the Lord!
Resty - you must be confused. joseph smith was never a prophet or apostle of the lord. he was a flim-flam man selling snake oil to unsuspecting folks. Dozens of failed prophecies make for a false prophet. Dozens of 'revelations' of convience, such as an 'angel with a sword' ready to kill him IF the poor young lady would not go to bed with him.
The Scriptures support LDS beliefs.
I agree, your second line is a real knee-slapper. ;-)
The interpretation, and the cherry picking of which Scriptures to read and which to ignore is the art of using Scripture to deny Scripture.
Something which Mormon apologists have taken to an art form.
God bless
Thank you. I bear you nor any other Mormon ill will. I pray however that God open your eyes to the folly of Mormonism. (I hope you don't take offense to that - I wouldn't take offense if I learned that you were praying for me and my friends to see the wisdom of Mormonism.)
As soon as you MORMONs quit LYING about us; then we CHRISTIANs will stop telling the TRUTH about you.
I had 3-4 of those in my yard early this morning; and maybe a buck as well.
You have GOT to be kidding me; RIGHT???
“Glad you admin what your tradition of men have done who are not prophets nor apostles of the Lord!”
Resty, PROVE IT.
PROVE your “prophets” or “apostles” are “of the Lord”.
Whadayagot?
I predict ZERO, as always on these threads.
Mormonistic cultists come on these threads, make HUGE
claims:
... You ask them for evidence to back up the wild claims: ZERO
... You ask them for facts to back up the wild claims: ZERO
... You ask them for a logical argument to back up the wild claims: ZERO
What you are left with is ZERO + a wild claim.
What do you make for dinner when you have ZERO???
So, do you have anything this time Restornu,
or is it the usual ZERO in a flambe sauce,
hoping the sauce will hide the ZERO?
best,
ampu
DEVINE comedy at that!
You belittle CHRIST, because you think the BIBLE is not sufficient.
Nice try, Resty!
You have chosen a religion started by men who did NOT even follow the 'little bit of Bible' that they had!
Even your PRECIOUS BoM said to have ONE wife for ONE man!
SMDT
Just HOW did you come up with THIS accusation?
--MormonDude(You hateful, bigoted ANTIs would confuse ANYONE!)
Hi ampu,
I don’t think any Latter-day Saint is able to prove the truthfulness of our claims in the way you are asking for.
The conclusive proof that I have regarding my faith has not come from being persuaded by rational argument. While reason and logic can, and does help persuade some people, the real convincing comes through the manifestations of the Spirit of God, which is something between the individual and God himself.
Regards,
Normandy
Thanks for the prayers ampu.
If anything, the questions in the post “should” make some ponder about the dilemma presented.
As evidenced by some of the responses so far, there are those who just live in a constant of denial and insist on attempting to build strawmen.
Need to go pack the truck, taking the Scouts backpacking and fishing (going after some Golden Trout) this weekend.
Prayers for you and yours,
SZ
Maybe...
Multi-tasking is really not all that difficult.
Which brings up an opportunity for posting THIS information:
Answer the question(s).
Until then, I don’t see the purpose in continuing the discussion with you.
Spiritually and eternally speaking the paths of Islam and Mormonism end the same for those caught in their traps.
God and the Devil did not call a time out just because we here on Earth are a bit tied up wth worldy geo political issues, indeed it is beacuse we have taken our eye of the ball that we are in the situation we find ourselves in today.
If the opportunity arose I for one do not want to tell some poor soul “sorry I did not do everything I could to snatch you from the fire, but I was busy with these other guys...”
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