Posted on 10/20/2011 7:24:57 AM PDT by Colofornian
At an appearance at George Washington University...Bill Maher bounded into territory that the news media have been gingerly tiptoeing around.
Magic underwear. Baptizing dead people. Celestial marriages. Private planets. Racism. Polygamy.
“By any standard, Mormonism is more ridiculous than any other religion”...“It’s...founded on the idea of polygamy. They call it The Principle. That sounds like The Prime Directive in ‘Star Trek.’ ”
He said he expects the Romney crowd...to once more “gloss over the differences between Christians and Mormons.”
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Another famous nonbeliever, Christopher Hitchens, wrote in Slate...about “the weird and sinister belief system of the LDS”...
Aside from Joseph Smith, whom Hitchens calls “a fraud and conjurer well known to the authorities in upstate New York,” the writer also wonders about the Mormon practice of amassing archives of the dead...to “retrospectively ‘baptize’ everybody as a convert.”
Hitchens noted that they “got hold of a list of those put to death by the Nazis’ Final Solution” and “began making these massacred Jews into honorary LDS members as well.” He called it “a crass attempt at mass identity theft from the deceased.”
The Mormons even baptized Anne Frank.
It took Ernest Michel, then chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, three years to get Mormons to agree to stop proxy-baptizing Holocaust victims.
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Kent Jackson, the associate dean of religion at Brigham Young University, says that while Mormons are Christians, “Mormonism is not part of the Christian family tree.”
It probably won’t comfort skeptical evangelicals and Catholics to know that Mormons think that while other Christians merely “have a portion of the truth, what God revealed to Joseph Smith is the fullness of the truth,” as Jackson says...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Then call the Feds and have us ARRESTED!
You REALLY need to try this ploy with those FR Freepers that SWEAR they'll NEVER vote for a MUSLIM!!
at least needs a constitutional understanding-sheeeeesh.
Simmer down. You can’t argue with crazy and expect to win.
Did I say better?
No; I said FASTER!
Hey!
That might not be too bad!
Oh my the level of ignorance is adorable.
Drug the IQ of the thread down an order of magnitude though
Judging by all the GLBT curriculum in the schools it appears nothing religious ever entered his mind.
You mean we don't? Praize Allah.
And Mormonic!
I probably should have included this
It’s un-American, and is already against the law to prevent someone from being president for that reason.
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FAIL. No it isn’t. Either of those. It is unconstitutional (not illegal get your facts straight) for the GOVERNMENT to impose a religious test, there is nothing about individual voters (in any state or federal) not imposing a religious test. Rather the opposite is true, to make individual voters not consider religion in voting (making it illegal) would be a violation of the first amendment.
However, it is unChristian to vote for someone who not only insults Christ (like the Mormons do) but also someone who takes oaths to put their CHURCH (not God, not Christ) above all things and to use everything including money and power for the building up their CHURCH (not God, not Christ, not the US) first while wearing an apron that signifies the priesthood of Satan (and yes I can source ALL of that from Mormon sources).
If you want the real story on how Mitt used his Mormonism while govenor of Mass and how he would use it as POTUS read “When Salt Lake City Calls” by Rocky Hulse.
Hey ‘zilla. Good post, I responded to the idiot troll as well, and had a nice visit with Binger today at his lovely property.
Thanks again, Binger, for your hospitality.
Yep, Binger has quite the spread up there. Probably getting pretty with fall colors too.
It ain’t really his; he’s just the caretaker for a while.
Myself; on the other hand; have a MANSION awaiting - just over the hilltop...
Psalm 30:5
For his anger endures but for a moment;
in his favor is life:
weeping may endure for a night,
but joy comes in the morning.
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