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To: ansel12
Those are indeed the facts, you are a spamming religous bigot and you support a religious bigot and it looks like a racist as well.

Ooooh. That hurts.

201 posted on 03/12/2010 2:14:17 PM PST by Invincibly Ignorant
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To: Invincibly Ignorant

It is your posting history, spamming threads to get a rise out of people on religion, it is what you like to do for some childish reason.


203 posted on 03/12/2010 2:18:58 PM PST by ansel12 (Social liberal politicians in the GOP are easy for the left to turn, why is that?)
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To: Invincibly Ignorant; ansel12
You Romney guys just don’t have anything to work with, with your powerful church leader Mitt Romney, as Priest, Bishop, and stake president teaching that blacks were unworthy to God and unworthy of priesthood,

What a load of crap. Blacks were withheld from holding the priesthood not because they're "unworthy to God" or unworthy of anything. Nothing like that was ever said to justify the prohibition. Women don't hold the priesthood in the LDS Church, or the Catholic Church for that matter, as well but that doesn't mean they're unworthy or not loved by God. Many churches withhold the priesthood or ministry, or however you term, it from women. It hardly makes you or your faith misogynist any more than the LDS Church policy was racist, i.e. based in some presumption of blacks being inferior or unworthy.

The likely reason for blacks having been denied the priesthood was because of the massive growth of the LDS Church in Africa once the priesthood was extended to blacks. Prior to 1978, the year the priesthood was extended to blacks, the LDS Church's finances were extremely precarious. They were not the wealthy church they are today. Had the kind of explosive growth occured in Africa pre-1980 that occured after, it could have bankrupted the church. The prohibition on blacks holding the priesthood had the effect of tamping down the growth of the church in Africa until the church could become financially strong enough to support the substantial welfare and infrastructure needs associated with a surge in membership growth on the continent. It was in the 80s when the church's finances really began to boom. I'm sure you will laugh, but one could very well point to this as evidence of divine guidance of the affairs of the LDS Church because as it happened when the priesthood was given blacks church growth in Africa went wild and put tremendous pressure on church resources, a welcome problem, but occuring at a time the church could manage it financially.

You know, I'm not a Romney fan and won't be supporting him in 2012 nor did I in 2009. But why is it necessary to make ignorant, vicious attacks on his personal beliefs in order to support your opposition of him? It seriously undermines your credibility and makes you appear petty.

And by the way to correct further inaccuracies in your post, Romney is hardly a "powerful church leader." The job of Bishop and Stake President are all local positions akin to the head minister of a local congregation. And most LDS men hold the priesthood. So these aren't exactly "high power" church offices.

Just to save your time, I won't read or respond to any reply. It is clear from what I've seen you're a bomb thrower out to trample peoples's sacred beliefs and thus a waste of any more of my time.

206 posted on 03/12/2010 2:38:10 PM PST by MissesBush
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