Mormonism's Outlandish Heresies [Mormonism/Anti-Christian]

Carolina Messenger ^ | Mel Futrell

[americanophile]

Well, this should be interesting...

[Hoodat]

Dedicated to those who missed out on the 837 previous mormonism-bashing threads.

[dixjea]

Shesh. Not this stuff again.

[elcid1970]

Mormon dead-dunking has always cracked me up.

Mormon Catholic-bashing is a hoot as well.

[ViLaLuz]

Don’t let the negative comments get you down. I like reading your postings.

[all the best]

Thanks for posting. Never understood how telling the truth is “bashing”.

[blueunicorn6]

Good neighbors...good citizens...but it’s a business.

[svcw]

Well, at least you got that it is exposing mormonISM and not bashing mormons.

[T Minus Four]

Never understood how telling the truth is “bashing”.

Me either.

[T Minus Four]

Good neighbors...good citizens...but it’s a business

It's true. They even have a CEO, aka President. I wonder if in their fantasy world of the good old days before "precious truths" were lost, Jesus was hailed as President.

[Paragon Defender]

Seekers of truth,

If you peruse the Free Republic religion forums you will notice a pattern. There's an anti-Mormon group of people here that spends a great deal of their time attacking the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. They post regurgitated propaganda on an almost daily basis.

They have a misguided obsession. You can witness many different tactics employed that you might find quite interesting. The straw man argument is a big favorite and is frequently preceded by cherry-picking quotes or other material. After the "quotation" the attacker will misrepresent what has been said or what was meant and then attack their own interpretation.Later they will have the audacity to claim they were "only" quoting our own material.  

They will of course insist ad nauseum that they are merely using our sources and are therefore innocent of any deceptive practice. LDS persons have no issue whatsoever having our scriptures or leaders quoted as long as it is presented fairly and accurately. This is rarely (if ever) done.

Another favorite is posting scripture or statements which on their own really present no dilemma. They make something out of nothing while never bringing up a single objection that hasn't been addressed a hundred times before.

You might note a couple of other tactics used to try to antagonize is the use of disrespectful or insulting terms or language and/or pictures. That's a Christlike thing to do right? Yeah I don't think so either. It does speak volumes about them though.

Some of them claim being some sort of special witness to you as being supposedly former Mormons. So someone who is an ex-member of any organization would never have an axe to grind or have reason to try to justify their actions by any means? Perhaps not but perhaps so. The LDS Church gains members from other denominations as well as others faiths all the time. This doesn't make them an expert on anything and you certainly won't hear them attacking their forner Church.

Frequently they cruise the headlines of the day seeking any story that might be twisted into making the Church look bad. Anything will do, just watch the progression of posts following it and see what I mean.

After reading their posts, I invite you to seek the truth about whatever "issue" they seem to be "revealing" or "exposing". I promise that if you do so with honest intent, the "ahah" moments you will have will be many and frequent. You will start to recognize the tactics employed to cleverly twist and attack and will likely chuckle the more you see. In actuality, there's nothing new here. It's all been addressed many times before.

The latest twist in the anti-Mormon propaganda machine is to actually go to the links provided, but then they cherry pick what they want, then quote and straw man attack that. Clever. It almost appears that they are helping you, the seeker of truth out by doing some footwork for you. Not so much. Don't be insulted, look for yourself. It's not the haystack they want you to think.

Here's a few links to get your started from a different viewpoint. I have found that the vast majority of the "issues" brought up can be found and addressed at http://www.fairlds.org/ but here's more:

http://scriptures.lds.org/
http://www.lds.org
http://www.fairlds.org/
http://www.mormonapologetics.org/
http://www.mormonwiki.com/Main_Page
http://www.lightplanet.com/response/index.html
http://www.jefflindsay.com/LDS_Intro.shtml
http://www.answeringantimormons.com/index.htm
http://promormon.blogspot.com/

Now you will likely notice the "you never address or answer our points" posts pop up as usual. All after providing the answers just as you have here.

Sometimes it is claimed that these sites present a needle in a haystack. Far from it. But if you give up before you try you won't know will you? They often state that these sites provide no answer. They just don't want you looking. It is as simple as that.

Will you wear blinders too? Seek truth. Find out for yourself. Want to chat with someone on any topic? A few of these sites provide just that. So do your homework sincere seeker of truth. Listen and read from both "sides". Make up your own mind.

I witness to you of these truths and wish you the best, in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.

 

[ejonesie22]

Depends on whose ox is being gored. Fortunately in this case the ox belongs to a soul stealing cult, so goring is exactly what is called for.

[ejonesie22]

Sadly it is a business whose “soul purpose” is destruction.

Hence way some of us are reaching out to and beyond those good neighbors and citizens and hitting their cult and it's handlers, controllers and apologist hard, especially now that it is starting to seriously falter under the weight of the information age.

We would like them to continue to be good neighbors and citizens of next life..

[ejonesie22]

Hum, did not know that there was a keeper of the number of times the truth is posted.

Is there an upper limit?

With 1000 do we get egg rolls?

[svcw]

Talk about nonsensical natterings.

[Hoodat]

Well, at least you got that it is exposing mormonISM and not bashing mormons.

Yes, the lead post here actually does address Mormonism instead of Mormons.

[Hoodat]

Hum, did not know that there was a keeper of the number of times the truth is posted. Is there an upper limit?

Perhaps you should ask instead why you were not able to achieve success the previous 836 times.

[SZonian]

2 Nephi 10, “written” sometime around 600 B.C.

The “Bible”, as we know it, well, it wasn’t around during the time Nephi used the word “Bible” in 2 Nephi 10.

Curious thing that...

http://www.greatsite.com/timeline-english-bible-history/#timeline

[SZonian]

Orson Pratt [original quorom of the 12 member] - Jesus a polygamist, God the Father had a plurality of wives.

"We have also proved that both God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ inherit their wives in eternity as well as in time." The Seer, p. 172 (1853)