Posted on 11/30/2011 5:18:31 AM PST by Saundra Duffy
Please note that Jewish folks also wear religious under garments. It would be considered anti semitic to poke fun at their underwear so why is it OK to ridicule those of us who belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints? (Hint, it's not OK.)
FYI
“Mormons are not unique in the wearing of special clothing for religious purposes. Perhaps the most well-known example is the yarmulke, which is worn at special times by many Jewish men or at all times by devout orthodox Jews.”
I learned about the Jewish undergarments when Senator Joe Lieberman spoke at BYU recently.
Can I assume they have more than one, so that they can be washed?
underwear is under wear...
ANY religion that thinks that God cares what type of underwear you are wearing is important is beyond inane. Furthermore, it is stupid rituals such as this that keep MANY people from embracing God.
God would be a lot more popular if it weren't for the religions scaring people away from him.....
“Can I assume they have more than one, so that they can be washed?”
Yep.
“Can I assume they have more than one, so that they can be washed?”
Those are for the laundry day saints.
“Actually, I have NO trouble ridiculing ALL of them.”
Thank you for making my point.
—...this article might be of some value in trying to stop some of the insulting and stupid comments that continue to be posted on FR. —
Actually, it amplifies them. And thanks for posting. Seriously.
Post more of these, Saundra. It only helps solidify my belief that Mormonism is a cobbled together thing, made up from Christianity, Judaism and other sources. It only reinforces my belief that, while it’s understandable that gullible folks in little towns in the 1800’s might have fallen for the traveling preacher of it as a new thing, it’s in the same class as Scientology or 20th century wiccanism.
One FReeper asks a perfectly honest question and another FReeper feels it necessary to make a snide comment.
By posting this article, I was hoping to thwart some of the bigotry, ignorance and silliness. Oh, well.
Anyway, PapaBear 3625 - thank you for an honest question and one that did not insult anyone.
A friend of mine is an orthdox Jew. He said that there was a thread in their garment that was a certain shade of blue and was to be colored from the extract of a rare snail. The snail is now extinct and the rabbi’s had to come up with a solution to the problem. Should they use some other source for the color, or just go without the blue thread?
They chose the latter.
—ANY religion that thinks that God cares what type of underwear you are wearing is important is beyond inane.—
This especially applies to any “post Christ” religion that actually claims to be Christian.
—Catholics wear small cloth pictures called Scapulars as well.—
Yeah, they also believe that Mary was perfect and died a virgin...
If we honestly think you’re misguided, that is not bigotry.
The garments are representative of many of the gravest errors of Mormonism.
That the God of Israel was once a man who sinned and had to rise up to perfection.
That the God of Israel is a polygamist.
That man can rise up to become a god, on the level of the God of Israel.
That man can make himself worthy through a long list of works. See www.afterallwecando.com/
That the blood of Christ is not sufficient to wipe away all of a man’s sin.
That the Levitical priesthood lives on, and has not been rendered obsolete by Christ.
That Jesus is a lesser god than God the Father.
That God the Father, a physical man-god, had a one-nighter with Mary and conceived Jesus.
That Jesus is not the only priest after the order of Melchizedek.
That the cross is abhorrent.
That Jesus bled in the Garden of Gethsemane, atoning for our sins there.
That Jesus and the devil are brothers.
The garments are a fetish, a belief that an article of clothing or an item has special powers. Hence the faith-promoting stories of garments saving people from accidents, burns, providing healing, etc.
The garments are a symbol of bondage to a system. A fantastic freedom comes when the tens of thousands of exmormons per year finally put them off for conventional underwear.
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