Crickets...
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 ...
And the REST of the Inmen said:
AMEN!
To the MORMON of OUR day, any who are not of the SLC branch of MORMONism are 'the other', sometimes referred to as 'GENTILES' but inclusive of all men who were not a MORMON, in all time.
And just WHERE do we find this BIBLICAL test?
2 Corinthians 11:14?
And just WHERE do we find this BIBLICAL test?
2 Corinthians 11:14?
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Temple Recommend Questions
1 Do you have faith in and a testimony of God the Eternal Father, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost? 2 Do you have a testimony of the Atonement of Christ and of His role as Savior and Redeemer? 3 Do you have a testimony of the restoration of the gospel in these the latter days? 4 Do you sustain the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as the Prophet, Seer, and Revelator and as the only person on the earth who possesses and is authorized to exercise all priesthood keys? Do you sustain members of the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles as prophets, seers, and revelators? Do you sustain the other General Authorities and local authorities of the Church? 5 Do you live the law of chastity? 6 Is there anything in your conduct relating to members of your family that is not in harmony with the teachings of the Church? 7 Do you support, affiliate with, or agree with any group or individual whose teachings or practices are contrary to or oppose those accepted by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? 8 Do you strive to keep the covenants you have made, to attend your sacrament and other meetings, and to keep your life in harmony with the laws and commandments of the gospel? 9 Are you honest in your dealings with your fellowmen? 10 Are you a full-tithe payer? 11 Do your keep the Word of Wisdom? 12 Do you have financial or other obligations to a former spouse or children? If yes, are you current in meeting those obligations? 13 If you have previously received your temple endowment: Do you keep the covenants that you made in the temple? Do you wear the garment both night and day as instructed in the endowment and in accordance with the covenant you made in the temple? 14 Have there been any sins or misdeeds in your life that should have been resolved with priesthood authorities but have not been? 15 Do you consider yourself worthy to enter the Lord's house and participate in temple ordinances? |
This some kind of a problem for you?
And we Inmen just repeat MORMONism's words.
I am avoiding the NUMBER today!
If a MORMON don't post it; then she probably don't give much of a care.
Crazed mormonic placemarker
bttt
Trip went okay. Weather forecast was spot on. Cloudy, intermittent showers, windy and cold. Some snow just above our elevation. That’s what you get for trying to hike/camp/fish in the mtns. in Oct.
Still, the fishing wasn’t too terrible. We discovered the lakes have a lot of pressure on them since they’re within easy hiking distance (~ 3 miles) of the parking lot.
We had a few hits, a few lost (boys fishing for the 1st time) and were able to land about 8. I caught two, one in each lake.
Still, new Scouts hiking, camping and fishing for the first time had a reasonably good time. Some valuable lessons learned about proper clothing for weather.
I didn’t take my camera because of the weather, but others did and when I get copies of the pics, will try to get them posted.
All in all, a memorable weekend for most.
I would agree with you regarding the law. It is a law of Love.
There are many examples showing how works of love are so important, e.g.
Matthew 25:
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
James 1:27: Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world
James 2:
14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
It's seems that is a lesson that needs to be learned at least once the hard way. Provided everyone has the necessary supplies, I've come to enjoy the reasonably bad weather trips. As long as everyone is warm and dry, I enjoy lounging around camp shooting the breeze. Sometimes it can be just as refreshing as whatever activity was planned.
Did you go high enough into the mountains to go after furbearing trout?
Crickets...
My sons didn't get to the furbearing trout but they had their 8-year-old sister convinced of jackalope this summer when we were driving through Wyoming. The clincher was the gas stop where the convenience store had a jackalope head mounted and the postcards in the rack. At that point, I pulled the plug on the joke.
Since turn-about is fair play, maybe I should take my sons snipe hunting...
Nah, we're in SoCal, not in the Northern regions of the US where that species of trout is purported to be found. ;^)
Fortunately, we had enough cold/wet weather gear available for those Scouts who weren't as "prepared" as they should have been. Some minor "whining", but we got them through it.
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