Special report -Mormonism besieged by the modern age [Lds church is hemorrhaging in member losses]

Reuters ^ | Jan. 29, 2012 | Peter Henderson and Kristina Cooke

[Elsie]

But you Hateful BIGOTs DO have to admit that Joseph invented the wireless mouse!

--MormonDupe(He was WAY ahead of his time!)

[Elsie]

... will just prolong our miseries.

Or SPEED our downfall.

[Elsie]

GOD is not mocked.

Just look how long it has taken many of the Jewish disasters to overtake them; before they’d come to their senses and repent.

[Elsie]

There are OLD pilots,
and there are BOLD pilots.
But there are NO old, bold pilots!

[Osage Orange]

Especially those that can't read a fuel gauge.

[delacoert]

... calling themselves Mormons, while trying to undermine their own church with corrupted doctrines.

I'm trying to decide whether this is some sort of dispassionate erudition that presupposes there is no such thing as absolute truth, or a Mormon analysis of Mormonism.

Either way it is laughably ignorant.

Are you a member of LDS or some other Mormon sect?

Do you call yourself Christian?

[LadyDoc]

Sheesh..anyone living out west know lots of “Jack Mormons”...but since the second or third largest religious group in the US is lapsed/cafeteria catholics, I won’t point a finger at them.

Not all who leave are doctrinal problems: Many left due to a problem with the local bishop (similar to those who leave catholicism after meeting a bad priest).

I disagree with LDS theology, but I figure that those who blast the LDS will go on to blast the Catholics.

[Godzilla]

I disagree with LDS theology, but I figure that those who blast the LDS will go on to blast the Catholics.

Poor logic. I am a former Catholic and I don't blast or bash them.

[reaganaut]

Many left due to a problem with the local bishop (similar to those who leave catholicism after meeting a bad priest).

I disagree with LDS theology, but I figure that those who blast the LDS will go on to blast the Catholics.

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You are grossly incorrect on both points and your statement is VERBATIM of part of the pat mormon response (that has no bearing in truth) to why people leave Mormonism. Don’t drink the Kool-aid.

Ask any number of exmormons and none will tell you they left because they had a problem with the local bishop. They left because they no longer believed.

[SENTINEL]

I WAS in the bishopric when I resigned after I found out I had been lied to by the church my whole life, and then told to cover it up.

I went to check a referenced quote where Joseph Smith claimed to be greater than Jesus Christ to prove folks here on FR LIARS !....But it was the CULT that had been lying all along !

I would venture to guess that less than 5% of bishops after serving two years who are not "in the know" and INTENTIONALLY IN ON THE COVERUP !

[Osage Orange]

Figures lie, and liars figure....

At least I always heard that....

[ansel12]

Your church teaches that Mormons are not Christians, why aren’t the Catholics helping Christians instead of usually showing up to defend Mormonism.

To me the most common thing I see on Mormon threads and the used to be Romney threads, from Catholics , is first announce they are good Catholics, and then they proceed to start defending the cult. Atheists are big Mormonism defenders as well.

[Elsie]

I disagree with LDS theology, but I figure that those who blast the LDS will go on to blast the Catholics.

Not in THIS thread!

We recognize an attempt to get Catholics and Protestants going at it; while MORMONs slink away to lick their wounds.

[Elsie]

Poor logic.

LOGIC?

That word is NOT found in the BoM!

It is a poor TACTIC.

[Elsie]

... first announce they are good Catholics, and then they proceed to start defending the cult.

[BlueMoose]

Poor logic.
LOGIC?

That word is NOT found in the BoM!

It is a poor TACTIC.

[SZonian]

Well, I waited a while to see if you’d reply to those who rebutted such a stupid and baseless comment.

So I’m going to weigh in a bit as an ex-mo.

I didn’t quit because of my “fragile psyche”, or a “problem with the bishop”, or “my feelings got hurt”. No, I quit because I found out that mormonism is heresy.

Your statement indicates that another has apparently fallen for the mindnumbing psychosis that SLC perpetrates on their members by laying ALL of the blame at the feet of those who quit mormonism. It couldn’t possibly be that mormonism is false.

But I wonder, what you would say to the women I know who are ex-mormon because they were ex-communicated? Why were they ex-communicated? Because their husbands were either cheating on them or abusing them and they dared to report it to church “authorities” and when that didn’t work, start divorce proceedings. Which got them promptly ex-communicated.

I guess, if one stretches their imagination pretty far, this could be classified as a “problem with the bishop”.

As to your “figuring” comment...you “figure” wrong. Mormonism is what we have a problem with. Have you seen many or any of us on a Catholic thread bashing Catholics?

It shouldn’t be too hard for you to prove your statement either true or false now, would it?

[SZonian]

The mormon church is engaged in a campaign of systemic character assassination against ex-mormons and “anti’s”.

Whenever one of their “authorities” gets up in front of the members and states that a person is ex-mo because their “feelings got hurt”, they are lying.

They are denying the truth that is told to them in the hundreds, if not thousands of resignations letter rec’d each year.

It is condoned by the most high in mormonism because ALL of the words spoken at GC are vetted and approved beforehand.

[Elsie]

No, I quit because I found out that mormonism is heresy.

GMTA!

[Elsie]

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