I don’t see anyone trying to deny mormons their rights to practice.
What I do see are folks defending Christianity from mormonism. A religion that claims all other Christians are apostates, spawns of satan or belong to the church erstwhile described as the “whore of Babylon” [Catholic].
If mormonism can attack Christianity, claim it is the “restored” gospel of Christ, label all Christians as apostates, then why can’t Christians contend for their faith as Evangelicals, Baptists, Lutherans, Catholics, etc.?
Why must Christians be silent on the matter? Why can’t we challenge mormon doctrine and theology when they are claiming that JS supposedly met with a “personage”, who claimed that all of us were apostates? Why must we accept their claim that JS purportedly met with Christ in contravention to Acts 1:9-11 in addition to the myriad other claims they made and continue to make?
Their “beliefs” are theirs, can’t and won’t argue that. We each have our own.
Otoh, their doctrine, teachings and theology are wide open to criticism and examination, just as our own are.
Unfortunately, your red herring about 0bama is just that. Red. Their are many on FR who view mormonism in a negative way who have already stated they’re voting for R/R.
I guess we should also suspend our belief system that would have us contend for the faith and be on the lookout for the wolves within the flock?
“For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ,
not only to believe in him, but also to suffer with him,
since you are going through the same struggle you saw I had,
and now hear that I still have.”
Philippians 1:29-30
Please read this posting in its entirety before commenting because the ending is the culmination of my argument.
Their inventiveness towards the Mormon religion shows they are not willing, or at least, are in any way receptive to have them presented in the arena of public debate, which is still part of the rights package our founders created for us. Nobody is forcing anyone to believe them just as nobody should be forcing them to believe us. I could personally care less what they think of my salvation.
For those who profess intimate knowledge of the Mormon doctrines have not answered to my posts with anything other than opinion. I have yet to see any links to original and bonafide doctrine directly from the Mormon church as it exists today, so have at it and maybe, just maybe, some will have backed their opinions by something other than other opinions.
On the subject of opinions, I have heard the opinion of some baptists and evangelicals (some from the pulpit) that the "Holy Father" presides on his throne in heaven, not in a white robe on one made by man in Rome. Who is right and who is wrong? I afford those who believe and espouse in the latter as they do because it is their right to do so, period.
I could not agree more that Christians are being persecuted all over the world. But just in case you have not noticed, those persecutors (more specifically Islam) have no concern whether their target is Catholic, Mormon, Greek Orthodox, Baptist, Southern Baptist, Coptic, Lutheran, Presbyterian, and I can go on and on. If we divide ourselves at this point in time, we will accomplish on our own that the persecutors have so longed to do to us(self proclaimed Christians) without having the first drop of blood on their own hands.
We are in a global fight for our own existence in a much larger picture way. So let us think big picture and join our "Christian" fight against all of those who think it is their divine calling to destroy us. If we are to be destroyed, let us do it together fighting the forces of darkness and evil instead of each other.