Why does anyone care about how someone else worships? Who cares what the Mormons do or the Catholics or Protestants or Episcapalans or Luthrans etc... Everyone should worship as they see fit and the rest of us should mind our own business.
Religion is a very private and personal matter. It matters not to me how anyone worships. If that is their belief then so be it. Everyone to their own comfort zones.
I am Catholic and believe in God. I always have been and always will be. It is MY business. If someone doesn’t like that fact...then they should just butt out. Plain and Simple.
Sorry for the rant but I’m so sick of everyone butting into other people’s lives...we have enough of that with the government who also need to butt out.
Yeah...
That's just TERRIBLE when it happens!
Matthew 15:16
"Are you still so dull?" Jesus asked them.
Matthew 231. Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples:
2. "The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat.
3. So you must obey them and do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.
4. They tie up heavy loads and put them on men's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
5. "Everything they do is done for men to see: They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long;
6. they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues;
7. they love to be greeted in the marketplaces and to have men call them `Rabbi.'
8. "But you are not to be called `Rabbi,' for you have only one Master and you are all brothers.
9. And do not call anyone on earth `father,' for you have one Father, and he is in heaven.
10. Nor are you to be called `teacher,' for you have one Teacher, the Christ.
11. The greatest among you will be your servant.
12. For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
13. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.
14. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
15. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.
16. "Woe to you, blind guides! You say, `If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.'
17. You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred?
18. You also say, `If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gift on it, he is bound by his oath.'
19. You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
20. Therefore, he who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.
21. And he who swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells in it.
22. And he who swears by heaven swears by God's throne and by the one who sits on it.
23. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices--mint, dill and cummin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law--justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.
24. You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.
25. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
26. Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.
27. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean.
28. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
29. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.
30. And you say, `If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'
31. So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.
32. Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your forefathers!
33. "You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?
34. Therefore I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town.
35. And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
36. I tell you the truth, all this will come upon this generation.
37. "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing.
38. Look, your house is left to you desolate.
39. For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, `Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.' "
Mark 7:26-27
26. The woman was a Greek, born in Syrian Phoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.
27. "First let the children eat all they want," he told her, "for it is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs."
And St. Paul chimes in...
Galatians 5:12
As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!
“Why does anyone care about how someone else worships?”
I understand the question. I have voiced it myself from time to time and I can tell you that I do not care how or what mormons worship.
It is the unfortunate fact that they keep referring to themselves as “Christian” when they clearly are not “Christian” any more that a Buddhist is.
I’m suprised you are Catholic and believe that way.
It matters because Mormons bring forth a different Jesus and different Gospel than the Jesus that Christians worship ( Catholic and Trinitarian Protestants ) They are leading souls astray every day, and we should all care about that.
Very well put, cubreporter.
I agree.
You mean like when those young men in white shirts and ties ride their bikes to your house, introduce themselves as elders, and then try to get you to abandon your Catholicism? Back to the point of this thread - they aren't trying to convert you because you have the same Jesus they claim.
I care a great deal about where you will spend eternity.
Well said. Thank you.
Don’t you get it? Religion becomes everyone’s political problem only when the candidate is a Republican.
Obama’s church doesn’t matter...see, he’s OBAMA, you know, The One, The Messiah.
Romney is a dirty Republican...HIS religion must be put under a microscope.
The Mormon issue is somewhat benign but I suspect you'll be singing a different tune when the Muslims, as they are doing in England, France and Scandinavia, begin to demand changes to our Constitution and legal system to accommodate their "religious practices".
I’m so sick of everyone butting into other people’s lives.
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So you get those 50,000 Mormons knocking on your door and butting into your life too and telling you that Christianity is wrong and you need to be a Mormon. too ???
Yes it is sickening isnt it ???
AMEN! The only "religion" we should be concerned about is Islam which at its core wants to stifle personal belief and liberty and condones killing anyone who does not share their belief.
No it is not....
If it were a completely private matter then Christ himself would not have taught "publicly"..nor would he have encouraged His followers and appointed Apostles to do likewise.
As Christians we are definitely called to defend the faith as well...especially when up against falsehoods which keep people from the truth Christ would have them to know...
False religions and cults are 'the distraction' to keep people otherwise occupied and away from the true Savior Jesus Christ...they would not be so vast in numbers were it not for the success of accomplishing just that.
We are called to bring down the strongholds which enslave people to false religions...and the teachings which bait them under the disguise of Christianity when they are not that at all...
In the Garden the enemy of men's souls stated.."Has not God said"? and til this day he continues to delude and persuade by using Christina terminology to bait and trap the uniformed of what God "really has said.
So no...Religion is not a private matter at all for it is not about religion...it is about a true relationship with the living God.....and that relationship is seen and read by all men.