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I would find them equally as repugnant if they presented a message that focused on what others believed rather than what they believed.

I have in front of me a 1996 book published by the Mormon church...you can find its content 100% online. Title: Our Heritage: A Brief History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Chapter Nine is called "The Expanding Church." Allow me to cite an excerpt from page 116:

"In 1952 in an effort to increase the effectiveness of full-time missionaries, the first official proselyting plan was sent to missionaries throughout the world. It was titled A Systematic Program for Teaching the Gospel. It included seven missionary discussions that emphasized..." the following four teaching priorities:

[BTW, wouldn't surprise me if someone like 'Binger used these lessons when he was an overseas Mormon missionary...eh Binger?]

1. "the nature of the Godhead" [Note to non-Mormons: 'Godhead' is simply a pseudo-Trinity word Mormons use so that (a) they can say 3-in-1 without having to say 'Trinity'; and (b) it's code-speak so that they don't always have to be so forthright that they are out & out polytheists]
2. "the plan of salvation" [how, you, too can become exalted and have "eternal increase" -- meaning eternal sex...with one or more wives ... and populate your own world as gods...stealing worship, glory, honor, prayers from THE Ultimate God]
3. "the APOSTASY and restoration"
4. "the importance of the Book of Mormon"

Now in addition to Lds' constant reference of D&C 1:30 ... as mentioned by Greyfoxx39 -- that we are all false & dead churches...
...see also its FOUNDATIONAL "first vision" found in the Pearl of Great Price -- that 100% of our creeds are an "abomination" to the Mormon God...that 100% of our professing believers are corrupt...
...The Mormon church also made sure that over these past 61 years its missionaries emphasize a so-called "UNIVERSAL" (complete) apostasy by the Christian church shortly after the apostles died.

Since 1952, the Lds church has sent out about a million missionaries...[Lds has boasted of over a million in its entire history; the largest swath have come in the last 60 years]. They work 70-hour weeks. That's a LOT of "apostasy" mongering...

And that doesn't include their 24/7 online accusations...
...their books published in who knows how many languages...
...their curricula...
...their published articles...
...their broadcasts...

Somebody who doesn't realize all of this strikes me as a little "green" when it comes to assessing what this multi-$billion organization has been doing...and to express worriment about the potential for some backwoods "cottage industry" to spring up that might actually stand up to this meta-narrative accuser of Christians & Christian churches the world over is really quite non-sensical and illogical.

Given to me in 1962 while out tracting in Copenhagen from a lady who had received it from her cousin. Some fellow named Ezra Taft Benson. Fourth edition, so not really valuable.

Chapter Nine is called "The Expanding Church."

Mr. Millet:

I don't think we can ever transcend Joseph Smith or consider him to be a valued personality, but now we'll move on.

I don't think you'll see that among believers in the faith, because there are too many other things that came from him

that are the reasons why we do what we do and we are what we are. That there are unanswered questions, to be sure.

That there are things that I'm as anxious as the next guy to learn more detail on, I really want to know. But in the interim,

it really doesn't, doesn't trouble me.

We're in the religion-making business, as you intimated earlier, only for a short time, I mean, compared to the

Christian church, which has been at this for a couple of millennia. We're about halfway to Nicaea.

And so, and so in that sense — I remember a very tender moment. I was speaking with — I've been invited

to the Salt Lake Theological Seminary, basically an Evangelical seminary, to discuss a book I had done on Jesus.

And they had read it, and they wanted me to come and just respond to questions.

And it was, it was a very enjoyable couple of hours.

The very last question that was asked by one of my friends there was this one.

He said, 'Bob, what can we do for you?'

And I, I wasn't ready for that question. I said, 'What do you mean?'

He said, 'What can we, as Evangelicals, do for our Mormon friends?'

And I, I guess my mind could have gone a hundred different ways, but what I came back with was this.

I said, 'Boy, I appreciate you asking that. I don't think I've ever been asked that.'

But, but I said, 'Try this. Cut us a little slack, will you? Give us a little time.

We're in the religion-making business, and this takes time. It takes centuries.

And, and trying to explain the faith and articulate the faith, that doesn't come over night.

We've really only been about that for 20 or 30 years.'

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