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now living in UT, I realize there are in fact places where Mormons remain completely isolated from certain aspects of our interaction with other faiths, and thus many of them simply ignore what really goes on, how we ourlseves attack others. Assuming that their view is the general reality of our interfaith relations seems quite a bit presumptuous (and ignorant of course).

An excellent example of mormon attitude was posted yesterday at exmormon.org

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---email from Ben W. May 2012 -----

http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,518002

Hello, my name is Benjamin and I'm a 19 year old Mormon. Having said that, I've never felt the holy spirit in any other church. This website depicts me and my faith as a joke and/or a drug that is in desperate need of 'recovery'. have you ever read the book of Mormon? try focusing on what the belief consists of rather than what the people do. I know that Christ died for my sins, that i may live again. Is that not the same? i not only have one holy book to gain knowledge of God from, but two and maybe more to come. Judge lest ye be judged. This website needs shut down. i don't call mormonism a religion. It's a knowledge that can only by gained by reading the book of Mormon, another collection of prophecies that point to Christ and a second coming. the end. And when the end comes, which i believe is in my lifetime, do you want to be judged by the Lord for putting down your fellow man? If there need be an organization such as yours, it should be toward ignorance of christianity as a whole. Mormons don't think they are better than anyone else, its the fact that we have more. And you reject the words of God, for the book of Mormon was translated by young farm boy from an ancient Egyptian writing. There are words in the book that haven't been used in centuries. there is no way that the book of Mormon was made up. And if it weren't made up, and it's words are true, who did they come from? The very God that gave his only son. Joseph Smith translated the golden plates through his devotion and faith in the holy spirit. So read the book, and when you find yourself thinking that it isn't true and it's just a bunch of made up stories and good teachings, then you have fallen to temptation. When you realize that the devil himself keeps you from reading the book, you will open your eyes.

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Note how Benjamin consistently denigrates others while whining about "persecution"...If there need be an organization such as yours, it should be toward ignorance of christianity as a whole. Mormons don't think they are better than anyone else, its the fact that we have more.

His whole statement reeks of the mormon attitude of superiority and arrogance very much in the way Romney's does.

His whole statement reeks of the mormon attitude of superiority and arrogance very much in the way Romney's does.

Well, notice what happened when a mere supporter of Gov. Perry -- not somebody on his campaign team, but a supporter (a pastor), called Mormonism a "cult."

A LOT of Mormons got up in arms about that.

Somehow, it was reflected that Gov. Perry -- unless he address every single worldview of every supporter he has -- wouldn't be very "inspiring" to Mormon voters as "their" candidate.

Yet when we now reverse that...And when we look @ the entire "catalog" of things that the temple Mormon Mitt Romney believes about Christians...

...That we're not part of the...
... "only true living church on the face of the earth" (D&C 1:30) [No, that apparently belongs to Mormons alone]

& that the rest of the churches are under Satan's umbrella (1 Nephi 14:9-10)
& that those churches should not be joined 'cause they are "ALL wrong" (Pearl of Great Price, Joseph Smith - History, vv. 18-19)
& they are "ALL wrong" cause 100% of their creeds are an "abomination" to their God (ibid)
& that their professors are "ALL corrupt" heart-drifters who lack power...(ibid)

How is this suddenly "inspirational" for Christians to vote for a man who has spent literally $MILLIONS to get the above message out about Christians worldwide?

The whole lot who doesn't see the obvious discrepancy here are religious hypocrites!

What gets me is that those heavily funding this world-wide slander and libel of Christianity have themselves initiated an "enemy" role of the cross and have treated Christianity as a hostile faith.

Yet their self-initiated enemy role of the cross and Christianity is suddenly ignored and negated by Christians and its leaders alike.

What does God think of that?

What does God think of Christian leaders who go about endorsing a man who is a supposed "divine-in-embryo"?

Is God neutral toward Christians who elevate idols?