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11 Surprising Things You Didn't Know About Mormons
Business Insider ^ | 2011

Posted on 06/30/2011 12:33:48 PM PDT by Colofornian

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To: reaganaut

Great! See you there!!!


261 posted on 07/01/2011 7:24:24 PM PDT by benhoganfan
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To: benhoganfan

The key to your eternal destiny can begin with the posts at #216 and #218. Will you read the entire posts?


262 posted on 07/01/2011 7:25:07 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: reaganaut; benhoganfan; Colofornian; svcw; MHGinTN; greyfoxx39
I really think there is a fear, that if someone else found out Mormonism is a lie, then the nagging feeling comes that ‘what if it isn’t true?’ or ‘what if I have been lied to like they say?’.

Fear is a strong emotion, and to doubt is verboten in mormondom.

The LDS ‘testimony’ is only what they claim they know based upon their feelings (burning in the bosom) but God never tells us that is how we gain knowledge or what personal revelation is.

Substitute book of mormon for the bible and the 'testimony' of the missionaries. . . . .

The point being you can make anything ‘true’ using LDS standards if you apply their methods.

Probably why we see romney flip - flopping every other day.

263 posted on 07/01/2011 7:27:58 PM PDT by Godzilla (3-7-77)
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To: MHGinTN

Listen, I was a hardcore atheist in high school. I spent years studying The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I have read all of the attacks on the church. I know all of them. I would bash Mormons in high school. So yes I read those posts. Same old arguments I have known for decades.

Take care and thank you for your concern. I mean it sincerely, I hope only the best for you and your family.


264 posted on 07/01/2011 7:30:29 PM PDT by benhoganfan
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To: reaganaut
Some fruity tooting a horn is going to intimidate me?


265 posted on 07/01/2011 7:31:19 PM PDT by Godzilla (3-7-77)
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To: reaganaut

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

What happened to just dust off your shoes at them and go on

Ity seems the mormons can leave the so called “church”

but the so called “church” cant leave them alone


266 posted on 07/01/2011 7:35:25 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Godzilla

Dude,

Let go of all the pent up hatred.

On my mission to Tokyo Japan in the 80’s there was a Buddhist sect that would engage in vein repetitious prayer and hand out flyers saying there was millions of members of this buddhist sect in the U.S. There were photos of a Super Bowl game that they claimed was a Soka Gakkai (google it) rally in here in the U.S. I would spend so much time worrying that they were lying, etc. It made me so mad! I finally learned to let it go. They wouldn’t change me and I wasn’t going to change them.

You are wasting too much of your life worrying about Mormons when you could be spending time being so much more productive in helping others around you.

Take deep breaths and let it go. You are sure you are going to Heaven, so good for you!

Ben


267 posted on 07/01/2011 7:37:17 PM PDT by benhoganfan
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To: reaganaut

Dear Ask Tommy

What should I do when a mormon becomes an apostate ??

My breother left the only twoo and “restored” church” andf now the family are going all over town calling him names and getting other mormons to ignore him.

I want to speak to my breother but he’s on a “Do not speak to” list on the bulletin board at the steak err stake house and I have to obey the profit err bishop err well you know who ever

Signed

I hate them apostates

Dear IHTA

You just keep on being the good unthinking mormon you are and dont sweat the apostates

Your thinking will be done for you and we will take care of any and all attacks on err troubles with the apostates.

You did not say whether or not you are obeying the profit and tithing regularly

You know we are behind in the building of the celestial shopping mall and costs are mounting up

I am sure your brother and the other hateful apostates are causing the displeasure of one of our gods to fall on our treasury errr heads at this crucial time.

I hope you are not eating meat during this warm weather. Please consider sending the usual cost of meat for your household as a special offering for the many needs of the church and tell your parents god expects the same from them.

Since your brother has left, there is now a gap in your family tithes and offerings. I know that the profit Joseph would want your family to continue to contribute his usual tithe as a memorial towards his return to the fold.

Although we, the LDS. do not usually practice memorial offerings, these are desparate times and we must hope and change with the ebb and flow of the corporate coffers.

And as usual when I speak all the thinking you will ever need to do has been done for you.

(That is why I get the big bucks)

Signed

Ask Tommy


268 posted on 07/01/2011 7:40:06 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: benhoganfan; Godzilla

You need to stop the hatred and love your neighbor.
_____________________________________________

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Joey Smith did that

with at least eleven neighbors...

The neighbors husbands didnt like it one bit


269 posted on 07/01/2011 7:43:57 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: svcw
Just how did Jesus lose His Bride ???
270 posted on 07/01/2011 7:45:33 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: svcw
Just when did Jesus lose His Bride ???
271 posted on 07/01/2011 7:46:14 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tennessee Nana

****Yawn****

Wow, never heard that one before.

****Yawn****


272 posted on 07/01/2011 7:47:06 PM PDT by benhoganfan
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To: benhoganfan
Wow, another mission to Japan - did you get the two week degree from a monastery too?

There were photos of a Super Bowl game that they claimed was a Soka Gakkai (google it) rally in here in the U.S. I would spend so much time worrying that they were lying, etc. It made me so mad! I finally learned to let it go.

Significant point here - the claim that the super bowl was a Soka Gakkai rally was demonstrably false. Same with mormonism. Oh, yes, I read that you were an atheist and attended a high brow private school, etc. Just shows what little you learned.

You bragged about being the one who kept the commandments. I demonstrated to you that it was impossible for you to do so and that you indeed failed - particularly in bearing false witness here. So what does that make you - Soka Gakkai or a super bowl fan?

You are wasting too much of your life worrying about Mormons when you could be spending time being so much more productive in helping others around you.

You apparently missed out on your poorer missionary brethern who could only afford / be worthy of a stateside assignment. Remarkable thing - they go door to door telling everyone that their church is false, apostate and of the devil. Hmmmmm 2 years out of one's life 'worrying' about us Christians. Oh, btw, I am productive in helping others around me - mormons do not have a corner on that market either.

Take deep breaths and let it go. You are sure you are going to Heaven, so good for you!

Riiigght ben, again, you bear false witness that I have 'pent up hatred'. No, it is more likely you are projecting your fears towards me in a effort to deflect the attention from the state of YOUR soul. I'm like one of those poor, underfed missionaries on a bicycle ben - except the field is here on the internet and FR in particular.

So Dude - let go of all that pent up denial

273 posted on 07/01/2011 7:51:25 PM PDT by Godzilla (3-7-77)
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To: reaganaut

So sunday school teacher is an entrance level job in the mormon religion ???

Maybe this kid is a convert

and not mpormon royalty

The convert get the dirty work of messing with the Christians

Or he could be a mormon boy scout working for one of those badges they pass out like candy

or maybe this is just a relief society task

Those girls are always looking for more busy work

It must get boring making trash bins from ice cream containers

and how many papered pencil cans does a child need ???

When do the women get to be real mormons ???


274 posted on 07/01/2011 7:54:30 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: benhoganfan

Ben have you met Williard ???


275 posted on 07/01/2011 7:56:44 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Godzilla

***yaawwnnn***

Let it go...

You can’t have an intellectually honest conversation...like so many liberals I grew up with in Seattle.

I paid for my education through student loans.

You have got to move on in life. You are like a Sierra Clubber crying about “big oil.”

I feel sorry for you now.


276 posted on 07/01/2011 7:57:07 PM PDT by benhoganfan
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To: Tennessee Nana

Have no idea who “Williard” is.


277 posted on 07/01/2011 7:59:32 PM PDT by benhoganfan
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To: benhoganfan

I am very happy in my faith and would never consider changing.
________________________________________

Moslems say that all the time

But they do get saved

Just as mormons get saved and become Christians

The way to the LORD God is through the blood of the LORD Jesus that He shed on the Cross

and not through the ideas on “faith” of the unGodly Joey Smith who rejested the LORD Jesus Christ and invented his own putrid religion

Jesus said to Ben, “I AM the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No man or woman comes to the father except by Me.” John 14:6


278 posted on 07/01/2011 8:04:35 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tennessee Nana

Jesus said to Ben, “I AM the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No man or woman comes to the father except by Me.” John 14:6

Amen to that! Absolutely the truth.

Who is “Williard?”


279 posted on 07/01/2011 8:09:31 PM PDT by benhoganfan
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To: benhoganfan
I was a hardcore atheist in high school.

Of course you were ...you still are...nothing has changed..

I spent years studying The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

I studied the false religion of Mormonism in one afternoon and had enough common sense to leave it alone.. The glaring comparisons of the book of mormon and the history of Joey Smith to the words of the Bible and Christianity stood out for me as so blatantly false it was shocking You should have spent years studying the Christian Bible Then you may have learnt something worthwhile that you could have contributed to the thread... and you would have known the difference between the false religion of mormonism and the Truth of the LORD Jesus Christ and Christianity..

280 posted on 07/01/2011 8:16:18 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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