Posted on 06/20/2012 12:17:00 PM PDT by Colofornian
...When Sean replaced his temple garments the sacred underwear hed promised to wear day and night with boxers, I couldnt take it anymore. It was too much betrayal. I called up a neighbor with a husband like mine and cried. But instead of empathy, she offered questions that stunned me into silence. Was Sean addicted to pornography? Watching R-rated movies? What sin had brought him to this terrible place?
...Her questions were so off-base...She was sincere, and trying to help, but she believed what the Church teaches that a man would only leave because hes disobeying the commandments. She couldnt understand this was a rational inquiry. She saw everything as the result of sin.
...The Church was wrong about him. What else might they be wrong about?...
...I often found him hunched over his iPad reading everything he could find on Mormon origins...Im sorry, but I just have to tell you. Did you know that and then hed tell me...About how Joseph Smith mistranslated some Egyptian hieroglyphics that are part of our canonized scripture. About how he translated the Book of Mormon while looking at a stone inside of a hat.
I listened half-heartedly...though I wasnt about to go looking at them myself...until one night it was about polygamy, my archnemesis.
Did you know that Joseph Smith married a 14-year-old girl against her will? Did you know that hed send men on missions and marry their wives in secret when they were gone? ...he kept talking, a horror growing in my gut. I knew that if Sean was right, then Joseph Smith was a fraud. I saw no difference between his acts and the modern-day acts of Warren Jeffs, whom I abhorred. And if Joseph Smith was a fraud then what did that make the Church?
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
And 14th and 15th and 16th and 17th and 18th and 19th and 20th and 21st and...
>> Ive seen ads for the LDS church for over a decade
OK. Thanks for the insight.
Guess they didn’t play in my area... or I wasn’t paying attention.
I pray that those who choose to vote for a Mormon soon realize that they may be speeding up polygamy again in America.
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Sorry; you must have been absent the day this was discussed in American History class.
Try ONE.
...the presidential campaign of Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith in 1844: Challenging Democrat James Polk and Whig Henry Clay, Smith prophesied that if the U.S. Congress did not accede to his demands that they shall be broken up as a government and God shall damn them.
Smith viewed capturing the presidency as part of the mission of the church.
HUNTSMAN ran at the same time as Romney.
We appear to have anOTHER prophet amoung us!
Quick!! Got any stock tips?
It seems to have no boundaries...
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DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS SECTION 132
5157, Emma Smith is counseled (commanded) to be faithful and true; 5866, Laws governing the plurality of wives are set forth.
51 Verily, I say unto you: A commandment I give unto mine handmaid, Emma Smith, your wife, whom I have given unto you, that she stay herself and partake not of that which I commanded you to offer unto her; for I did it, saith the Lord, to aprove you all, as I did Abraham, and that I might require an offering at your hand, by covenant and sacrifice.
52 And let mine handmaid, Emma Smith, areceive all those that have been given unto my servant Joseph, and who are virtuous and pure before me; and those who are not pure, and have said they were pure, shall be destroyed, saith the Lord God.
53 For I am the Lord thy God, and ye shall obey my voice; and I give unto my servant Joseph that he shall be made ruler over many things; for he hath been afaithful over a few things, and from henceforth I will strengthen him.
55 But if she will not abide this commandment, then shall my servant Joseph do all things for her, even as he hath said; and I will bless him and multiply him and give unto him an ahundredfold in this world, of fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, houses and lands, wives and children, and crowns of beternal lives in the eternal worlds.
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Office of First President & Living Prophet®: April 1st, 2012
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Ooops!
Due to the charges being leveled at our pesky opponents of “Out Of Context” comments; we have been challenged repeatedly to then post the TRUTH IN context! How dumb do they think we ARE??
We do not have to spend time refuting the facts against MORMONism; we get LOTS more mileage out of claiming the Christians are in error, then backing away and watch them sputter.
So, bottom line, stay aWAY from defending our faith, as it is a vain effort.
Stick to CONSERVATISM (you can even rag on Mitt, if you want - it makes your message seem more authentic that way.)
They are happy family ads. We also hear them on the radio during Dave Ramsey.
Huntsman was never the nominee and never close to getting the nominee. He was never vetted for president because he was a waste of air.
I know you have said something brilliant but I can not see the yellow font. ;-(
Wow, yet late last year SLC lds announced a NEW campaign.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/story/2011-10-02/mormon-church-media-campaign/50637136/1
Excellent post!
use your secret decoder ring, then you can read it.
I know that, I was agreeing with you and tried to phrase it so it wouldn't sound negative or accusatory.
Your question was “how many mormons have run before Romney”, it was not who had a chance to win or who was vetted.
George Romney
Harry Reid
Orin Hatch
Mitt Romney twice
Joseph Smith
Morris Udall
Ezra Taft Benson
Parley P. Christiansen
Eldridge Cleaver
Sonia Johnson
James G. Gritz
I’m waiting for the “We’d tell you what we do but then we’d have to kill you” campaign.
Your question was how many mormons have run before Romney,
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