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Yet not a complaint from you, Ron. Why not? You don't mind if the Christian church is slandered in such a way?

My FRiend, I don't care what anyone says or does, my Faith is true and steadfast.

Just as I don't care if a man takes an image of Christ and submerges it in urine, I will pray that they somehow someday see the light.

I do not need to bash other belief es to justify my own, sorry.

To do so would show weakness in by own faith, JMHO.

My FRiend, I don't care what anyone says or does, my Faith is true and steadfast.

So what are you doing on this thread? Is it that you believe mormonism is so feeble and UnChristian that you must defend it? If so, it would be best to learn something about it first.

Here's a start for those who profess to be Christian:

"Evening Meeting. Prayer By E Stephenson. Joseph F Smith spoke One hour & 25 M. He spoke upon the Marriage in Cana at Galilee. He thought Jesus was the Bridgegroom and Mary & Martha the brides. He also refered to Luke 10 ch. 38 to 42 verse, Also John 11 ch. 2 & 5 vers John 12 Ch 3d vers, John 20 8 to 18. Joseph Smith spoke upon these passages to show that Mary & Martha manifested much Closer relationship than Merely A Believer which looks Consistet. He did not think that Jesus who decended through Poligamous families from Abraham down & who fulfilled all the Law even baptism by immersion would have lived and died without being married." Wilford Woodruff's Journal 8:187, July 22, 1883 (misspellings included in original)
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"I discover that some of the Eastern papers represent me as a great blasphemer, because I said, in my lecture on Marriage, at our last Conference, that Jesus Christ was married at Cana of Galilee, that Mary, Martha, and others were his wives, and that he begat children." Journal of Discourses 2:210, Orson Hyde, March 18, 1855
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"It will be borne in mind that once on a time, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and on a careful reading of that transaction, it will be discovered that no less a person than Jesus Christ was married on that occasion. If he was never married, his intimacy with Mary and Martha, and the other Mary also whom Jesus loved, must have been highly unbecoming and improper to say the best of it." Journal of Discourses 4:259, Orson Hyde
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"We have now clearly shown that God, the Father had a plurality of wives, one or more being in eternity, by whom He begat our spirits as well as the spirit of Jesus His First Born... We have also proved most clearly that the Son followed the example of his Father, and became the great Bridegroom to whom kings' daughters and many honorable Wives to be married." The Seer, p. 172, Orson Pratt
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When Joseph Fielding Smith was asked if this meant that Christ had children, Joseph Fielding Smith wrote, "Yes! But do not preach it! The Lord advised us not to cast pearls before swine!" (Letter to J. Ricks Smith, dated March 17, 1963)

I do not need to bash other belief es to justify my own...

"Nice" superimposing of motives ("to justify my own").

You are ascribing inward motives.

1 Sam. 16:7 says ONLY God sees the inner man; man, on the other hand, looks only at outward appearances.

I am justified by Jesus Christ and His cross; not by any attempt, myself or any other, as any attempt to "justify." Christianity stands on its own, yes. That doesn't mean that we do what you seemingly do -- clip out verses like Jude 3 where Jude tells us to "contend for the faith delivered once for all to the saints."

(May I suggest you read Jude 3 & then you tell us what that means?)

To wind back to the above, you are in grave error and guilty of judging complete strangers' inner motives when you superimpose what you believe to be their motivation. (May I gently suggest you prayerfully consider repenting of that?...and an apology wouldn't hurt, as well)