Posted on 10/31/2015 6:36:53 AM PDT by Colofornian
Situated at the heart of Salt Lake City, Utah, Temple Square is the spiritual, cultural and administrative center of the Mormon faith. This ten acres plot of land includes a Temple, a domed tabernacle and numerous buildings, monuments and memorials. While this place may seem holy and wholesome, a closer look at the structures reveal the presence of occult, pagan and masonic symbols. A deeper study of those grounds only adds to the controversy regarding Mormonism and reveals the disturbing truth about its real god.
This article's intent is not to condemn Mormonism as a faith, but rather to analyze the symbols in Temple Square in an objective matter. A visitor of this religious area finds himself surrounded with symbols esoterically associated with Black Magic, evil or ancient paganism. Why are these symbols visible on supposedly Christian buildings, of all places? Many ex-Mormons have claimed that the LDS secretly leads followers to the worship of Lucifer. Are they right?
The Temple is the centerpiece of Temple Square and acts as the heart of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The building itself is stern and imposing and surrounded with many sculptures. It is said to accomplish the same functions as the ancient Temple of Jerusalem. While we can write pages on how this is not true, we'll focus on the structure itself...
(Excerpt) Read more at vigilantcitizen.com ...
The OTHER World Series...
Other thread posts as part of the series:
Occultic and Masonic Influence in Early Mormonism (The OTHER World Series)
Life Everlasting: A Definitive Study of Life After Death (The OTHER World Series: Lds author)
Mormonism and Visitations from the Dead (The OTHER World Series)
Enid's Ten Weird Mormon Halloween Costumes (The OTHER World Series)
Admittedly, the Temple Square is pretty imposing. The power structure behind the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter-day Saints, was moved by some pretty fervent emotions when they raised this edifice, but all the fervor in the world cannot induce any real creativity.
The whole pile of rocks comes out looking like a hodgepodge of every Pantheon and shrine raised since the pre-Grecian civilizations that existed about 4,000 years ago.
From Aldous Huxley, “Faith, Taste and History” - “[I]t was through sheets of falling water that we caught our first glimpse, above the chestnut trees, of a flood-lit object quite as difficult to believe in, despite the evidence
of our senses, as the strange history it commemorates.
The improbability of this greatest of the Mormon Temples does not consist in its astounding ugliness. Most Victorian churches are astoundingly ugly. It consists in a certain
combination of oddity, dullness, and monumentality unique, so far as I know, in the annals of architecture. For the most part, Victorian buildings are more or less learned pastiches of something else—something Gothic, something Greek or nobly Roman, something Elizabethan or Flamboyant
Flemish, or even vaguely Oriental. But this Temple looks like nothing on earth. and yet contrives to be completely unoriginal, utterly and uniformly prosaic.”
One of the harshest critiques of the Temple Square I have ever seen.
I’m with you. I’ve dealt with a few Mormons and found them to be fairly decent people. If their religion is false, they’ll be judged by One much higher than me.
I’m glad he posts this information. Souls are at stake, FRiend. It’s imperative that someone sound the alarm. It doesn’t matter if they make good neighbors or not, Mormons are simply not Christians. If an LDS family moves in next door to you, you can thank Colornian that he has equipped you to witness to them.
This post has nothing to do with conservatism or politics, but I'm not about to go sifting through all the provided links to find out, it's a waste of my time.
I drove by the Temple in San Diego several years ago. From a distance the spires looked HUGE! As I got closer I realized it was not so big, it had lots of gingerbread on the spires making it look big.
#1, early Western Mormon leaders is part of my family roots. So I am not simply an "outsider" looking "in."
#2, I have many of the type of those you would choose as your Mormon neighbors as my extended family. They are indeed "worthy" neighbors...after all, if you're auditioning for godhood, ya better believe you're gonna be on your best behavior! [Albeit, that needs to be "balanced out" with the reality of things like concentrated Mormon crime: Lds Affinity financial scams: Post #61 (see also post 62, and for post 63, sexual misconduct rampant in Utah...)]
...Will continue on this next post...
***Kind of got a one person anti-Mormon hate cult going, do ya?***
Perhaps it is time to notify the FLYING INMANS.
I'm sure the apostle Paul could have come up with a profiled "dossier" of those he engaged in truth-telling about...Instead, he chose to simply reference them to the Church of Ephesus -- as he left that church -- as "savage wolves" who would be preying upon them:
Indeed, the apostle Paul ensured it was a high-priority alert:
"I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them. So be on your guard! Remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears." (Acts 20:29-31)
Paul's cultural priority? (Defend against the false disciples who will proselytize the flock and draw away men unto themselves!)
Tell me something, X-spurt, if you pretend to be one: If you did something tearfully night and day for three years, do you think it's rather important? So what? We're just to conclude, "Oh, the man who contributed a good chunk to the New Testament -- what does he know about cultural priorities?"
I'll take Paul's already-revealed priorities to your guesswork based upon bashing those willing to contend for the faith once delivered to the saints (Jude 3)
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Well, if I were to engage in that line of reasoning...I'd have to conclude:
Here we have a thread cult which calls thread posters a cult; it's sad that FR allows this conceit on its pages.
So, tell us: What makes your religious opposition to certain religious vantage points so sacro-sanct? You somehow seem to conclude it's OK for you to critique religious expressions on FR...and what? You're suppose to get "high-fives" for that? But others aren't allowed the same privilege?
My read on this is that the poor souls are begging for their forgiveness to be validated through their “missionary†work.
You know, if you want to go around and judge the inner motives of people, that's up to you...I wouldn't recommend it.
In God's holy Word (1 Samuel 16:7), we are reminded that only God sees the internals of a person...man looks at the outside.
Well, if I were to engage in that line of reasoning...I'd have to conclude:
Here we have a thread cult which calls thread posters a cult; it's sad that FR allows this conceit on its pages.
So, tell us: What makes your religious opposition to certain religious vantage points so sacro-sanct? You somehow seem to conclude it's OK for you to critique religious expressions on FR...and what? You're suppose to get "high-fives" for that? But others aren't allowed the same privilege?
My read on this is that the poor souls are begging for their forgiveness to be validated through their “missionary†work.
You know, if you want to go around and judge the inner motives of people, that's up to you...I wouldn't recommend it.
In God's holy Word (1 Samuel 16:7), we are reminded that only God sees the internals of a person...man looks at the outside.
From the 2011 OTHER World Series was this article: They See Dead People?
Post #1: From the article: Prior to the dedication of the San Diego temple in 1993, local Mormon families were given a packet titled Family Temple Preparation Material. Included in this written material were about seven pages devoted to "true stories" of temple patrons who were visited by the dead.
In that same post, I then added: Official Mormon church sources claim that when they opened their temple in the Spring of 1893, "Some Latter-day Saints saw...past Presidents of the Church and other deceased Church leaders." (Our Heritage: A Brief History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1996, p. 102)
So, Ruy, thanks for referencing something that gets us back on topic here.
LM said it well “I equate this with the divisions of Islam, where one sect claims superiority over the other. There is no proof; only opinions.” I could not have said it better!
Secondly, your “history with LDS’ points to an unsettled personal grievance, better kept to yourself. We can not resolve your personal issues here and are unlikely to be appreciative of your rant.
The incoherent rambling sounds almost alcohol or drug related, but then again maybe mental anguish.
I am not Mormon, like ‘the Donald’ was raised Presbyterian, and likely equally undevout. My point is to not stand idly by while you bash a group, that on the most part, lives their lives more devoutly and civilly that most that claim Christianity.
You are proving my point, precisely.
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