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Their self-rightous and pious pronouncements are nothing more than a transparent cover. (he concluded very self-righteously and quite piously, IMA)

There. Feel better now that you climbed your lofty hill, looked down upon others, and spouted out about how "pious" they are?

There is a vocal minority who attempt to divide and destroy the conservative movement. Once the division is complete...

I can't believe all the assumptions I see fully operative.

So let me get this straight: You can't tolerate up to a dozen or more FREEPERS who state disagreements they have with the Mormon belief system. Some may state this occasionally. Some weekly. Add 'em all up, and their comments wouldn't equal the Journal of Discourses put out by the Mormon church -- a collection of their spoken messages.

But, and perhaps you can prove me wrong on this, but you've tolerated what the Mormon church has said about all Catholics, all Protestants, all Orthodox for these past 180 years?

They put these comments into over 100 languages. These comments are online for 24/7 consumption. They are placed in Lds church curricula; Lds publishing houses; two-a-year annual conferences they have done. They have literally sent out over 1 million missionaries since 1830.

I won't even give you the lengthy long list of what they have called us. For brevity sake, just know that Mormons accuse Christians the same as Muslims do. Muslims call Christians "infidels"; Mormons? They call ALL of us "apostates."

Their most basic "missionary" message spread by their 52,000 worldwide missionaries is that a complete apostasy was ensued by their restoration. Joseph Smith's first vision was that 100% of Christian creeds were an "abomination" to their god; and that 100% of our professing believers were "corrupt."

Now since the Mormon church has been saying this about us for 180 years, on what grounds do you conclude we are completely "unified?" And even if you recognize that we're not unified, why is it that the Mormon church can send 52,000 missionaries out accusing us of being apostates, and they can put all of this slander out 24/7 online, by their publishing houses, etc...and yet, where are your accusations of the Mormon church that it is attempting to "divide and destroy" the conservative movement?

Joseph Smith practiced scorched earth religio-politics and tried to hold a mass funeral for Christianity. He tried to say we were dead & buried. So Smith, and then the next generation, who enshrined his words as "scripture" (1870s) -- they weren't guilty of attempting to "divide and destroy" the 19th century conservative movement? And what about contemporary Mormons who likewise conclude we are corrupt and part of a false apostate church? Are they in your Kum-ba-yah camp?

Tell ya what, if we sing from the Mormon hymnal with Beck leading your new church choir, then the lyrical lines might be,
"Kum ba yah, My Lord, all the Christian sects are apostates...
"Kum ba yah, My Lord, all their creeds are an abomination...
"Kum ba yah, My Lord, all their professors are corrupt.
"Oh, Lord, Kum ba yah."

I challenge you. Use your Google and do some online learnin': put in "Joseph Smith" and the word "history" and the phrase "Pearl of Great Price." Then scroll down and read verses 18-20 about what Mormons believe about us.

And then you need to ask yourself, "Boy. Why haven't I sent an e-mail off to Salt Lake City, asking the Mormon church why they've been trying to divide America for 180 years?"

you don't really want to talk about scorched earth and “dead and buried” do you?

if you do, want to talk about:

the Albigensian Crusade: 20 years of carnage
that finally ended, after tens of thousands were slaughtered in the name of the church - many of them catholics - as the Pope said “Kill them all. God will know His own.” = this slaughter culminated in the what they thought were the last of the Cathars, holed up in the castle of Montségur. All were marched out, men, women and children, stripped and burned alive.

Or perhaps you'd like to talk about the Medieval Inquisition? and the tens of thousands, tortured, burned and slaughtered - in the name of the church?

Maybe, mention the night of Friday the 13th, 1307 and that slaughter - having nothing to do with ‘religion’ and everything to do with greed.

Or maybe the pedophile priests who have been protected for decades?

What I'm getting too is: Only Christ, Himself, has the right to pass judgement - all mortals/organizations have warts and histories less than perfect. Because we are all mortal.]]

Ephesians 4:2
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

1 Thessalonians 3:12
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:

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It is time to unite, not to tear ourselves apart. WE have a common enemy that is determined to destroy our freedoms. Time to turn your attention to that...or all of us may soon see the day NONE of us can worship our Lord but in secret and danger.