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To: Degaston
One big problem that many active LDS people have is that they believe the lie that most people quit the church because they were offended or because they don't want to live the commandments.

And THIS is the "official" stance of the LDS church now.

Ex-Mormons urged to return

"(New) LDS President Thomas S. Monson said members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are ready to welcome "the less active, the offended, the critical, the transgressor" into fellowship."

Exactly as seen on FR, those of us who have left the LDS are accused of being sinners who can't live the commandments.

This statement by Monson was MUCH less an invitation to "return" than a reminder to the "faithful" of how apostates are to be defined, and encouragement to ostracize them lest they, the "faithful" be contaminated.

2,835 posted on 04/13/2008 10:52:13 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Are there any WOMEN FReepers who agree that the 1st. Amendment OKs sexual slavery?)
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To: greyfoxx39

“(New) LDS President Thomas S. Monson said members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are ready to welcome “the less active, the offended, the critical, the transgressor” into fellowship.”

They need to add to their list “the disgusted, the nauseated..”


2,840 posted on 04/13/2008 11:19:35 AM PDT by McCoMo (Romans 12:19 ....“Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”)
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