No; we are NOT them damned FLDS folks!
THEY get EXCOMMUNICATED from OUR (the ONLY true MORMONs) group if they DARE to actually follow SCRIPTURE found in D&C132!
If you’re really interested in understanding the psychology behind anti-Mormons you might enjoy this site: http://www.barna.org/
George Barna, though nominally Evangelical, is a thoughtful guy. He’s done some great research into why churches and belief systems succeed and fail. He’s also done some in depth analysis of different types of faith.
This one is excellent: http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Faith-Tribes-Believe-Matter/dp/1414324049
It analyzes seven major faiths including atheism/agnosticism. Mormons are also included. The group of Christians you’re dealing with on this and similar threads are called ‘captive Christians’. They view themselves as slaves to Christ. They are fervent and immovable, that is they have the ‘truth’ and there is no adding or subtracting from it.
This clouds their judgment and lowers their objectivity. Although many LDS find these threads hostile, linguistically violent and definitively unloving, this is how they express love. It can seem juvenile and cruel, but that’s not how they view it.
There’s a lot of heat, but little light. One good thing about anti-Mormon threads is they provide Protestants and Catholics some common ground which is a nice time out and relief from their normal threads in which they work vigorously to destroy each other.
No; we are NOT them damned FLDS folks!
THEY get EXCOMMUNICATED from OUR (the ONLY true MORMONs) group if they DARE to actually follow SCRIPTURE found in D&C132!
Thanks for your insight. I appreciate the link. I will look it up. I have friends that are of differing faiths. I don’t know if I feel the “love”, but knowledge is power. I remember history. Didn’t JFK face huge anti Catholocism before becoming President? If my non revisionist history is right, by joe, I am correct.