I like Mormons. They are honest, hardworking people. Last I checked, this is America.....you know, freedom of religion. Perhaps you should roll on the floor, speak in tongues, and ask your lord why you are so special but the Mormons are not.
(I like Mormons, too...can't always pick "family," ya know)
They are honest, hardworking people.
Well, relatively speaking, many Lds indeed are honest...[although not necessarily honest with themselves about goals like becoming a god.
But the white-collar crime rate for decades doesn't reinforce this claim:
Utah's White-Collar crime reputation:
(The second note below shows this problem is endemic & specific to the Mormon church):
* ”Frustrated by the wave of fraud that by one estimate took $750 million out of Utahns' pocketbooks last year, regulators, law enforcement officials and attorneys are organizing a free 'Fraud College' next month in Utah County for the public to call attention to the problem and to try to combat it.” Source: Preying on the faithful: Though Mormons often victims, LDS Church skips fraud-prevention event
* Lds members have fleeced over $1.4 billion from fellow Mormons the past few years alone! Guess what? They initially didn't regret "doing business" with them, either!!!
Source: Mormons Now Losing Billions to Affinity Fraud
* This isn't new...Utah has long been host to the most per-capita fraud in America: Salt Lake City, with a mere 170,000 residents, is by far the country’s smallest city where the scam-fighting U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission has an office. It has been there since the early 1950s. Why? “There is a lot of fraud here per capita,” says local SEC boss Kenneth Israel. “There doesn’t seem to be any shortage of work for us.” [Source url: http://www.lds-mormon.com/6303056a.shtml ]
* Utah was #1 in mortgage fraud in America by 2001 when the FBI listed Utah as No. 1 in the country for the amount of mortgage fraud cases reported. [Source url: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,600151169,00.html ]
Last I checked, this is America.....you know, freedom of religion.
Last I checked, this is America...you know, freedom of religion...including BTW, the freedom to critique other religions.
Sorry. But like some social engineer Web cop, you've gotten out of your vehicle on a busy two-way Web street, and put up unauthorized one-way signs. (Go take your signs down...religious comments don't HAVE TO be of a "positive" nature in order to qualify for your "freedom of religion" edict)
You and sportutegrl don't have self-authorized licenses to critique others that others don't have...Specifically, I'm reference you somehow implying GF has impinged upon or violated some incomplete notion of yours about "freedom of religion"...and sportutgrl bashing others based upon her personal standard of not bashing others...go figure both of your self-defeating statements out!!!
Perhaps you should roll on the floor, speak in tongues, and ask your lord why you are so special but the Mormons are not.
Perhaps you should stay still, hold a Bible in hand, and read how Jesus and the apostle Paul didn't speak so highly of the legalistic religionists of that day -- otherwise known as the Pharisees and teachers of the law. Was Paul, an ex-Pharisee, "special" -- and they weren't?
Are you criquing by extension of your comments people like Paul and Jesus? Were they too harsh on the Pharisees?
Are they?
Yes, that same freedom of religion permits Christians to challenge the beliefs of non-christian cults who WANT to call themselves Christian too.
Would you respond in like manner to mormons? After all, they have 50,000 or so missionaries knocking on doors around the world telling Christians that their church is apostate and they are the only TRUE church.
One need not roll around speaking in tongues (thought you said there was still freedom of religion - or are you a bigot against pentecostals?), just open the bible, do a little reading and research.