Posted on 02/03/2012 9:47:56 AM PST by C19fan
As Mitt Romney solidifies his frontrunner status with a double-digit win this week in the Florida Republican primary, Mormons are embracing a unique moment in their political history that has been dubbed the “Mormon moment” — but not without concerns about what the increasing prominence could mean for their community.
In extensive interviews with 10 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who live and work in the D.C.-area, POLITICO discovered a close-knit community that is enjoying, granted with some reservations, the national spotlight that Romney’s second White House bid is helping to shine on Mormons across the country.
Last month, the Pew Research Center released a 125-page report titled “Mormons in America” that surveyed over 1,000 members of the LDS Church. According to the poll, the majority of Mormons across the country, 63 percent, said they believe acceptance of their religion is on the rise.
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I can show you LOTS of old Christian church buildings in Indianapolis that have been turned into homes; apartments, businesses.
You say that as if it were a "good" thing.
Tell us teppe, does having no professional psychology training as a bishop help or not? How about training in marriage counseling? Counseling teens?
No, I daresay that having a "good" mormon promoted from within the ranks for checking off boxes on the exaltation checklist is not a "good" thing.
I've personally seen too many mormons hurt by an inept, ineffective and untrained "layman".
bttt
And neither is BLIND faith when presented with factual proof of not only contradictions of said faith, but of numerous FALSE prophets within said faith. JS and BY were FALSE prophets. Why is that ignored? Why is it that the Bible, that warns of wolves in sheep's clothing is ignored? Because those passages are in ERROR??
The BoM has been proven time and time again, thousands of times, to be in error.
Mormonism engages in rituals that are straight out of paganism and directly contravene not only the Bible, which all mormons "suspect" to be in error, but your own BoM.
The mormon christ is a vengeful and murderous, OT style of judge. The Biblical Christ is a redeemer filled with grace and love. Which is it pancho? Which Christ do you follow?
But mormonism delibeately makes God "just another man", Jesus "a good example of a man", and man a "God-to-be". You notice how God and Jesus have both somehow been demoted to man's level, and it seems man has been promoted over their head. In this, I fundamentally parted ways from the cult spiritually...being beaten, isolated, indoctrinated, cut off from family, and treated like one demon possessed for questioning the cult, just expedited my leap over the wall.
Because Christianity was shown to be a fraud, a scam and a pyramid scheme?
Perfect Elsie, perfect.
People moved away and most likely started in a NEW/different church building elsewhere.
Churches have a life cycle to them. And, if they somehow fail to keep the younger folks around to continue after the older folks die off, the building will fall into disuse.
Our own church building started in the 50’s, with a small, white, clapboard house on the corner that was converted. The house to the south of it was purchased for the Preacher's home.
Then, as the folks who started it had children and more people also started to attend; the old frame house was torn down (in ‘63) to make room for the fine Bedford stone structure we have today.
The house to the east of the property became available; and it was purchased for the pastors home, and the old one got a large addition added to it, for use as the Fellowship Hall/added Sunday School rooms (in the 70’s)
And about 11 years ago, we determined that we could not grow the size of our congregation due to the limited parking we had, so many trees were removed from behind the church and a larger lot was installed.
Soon after that, we had to enlarge the size of the sanctuary in order to seat the people!
We've kind of leveled out, attendance wise now, due to older members dying and a lot of the younger ones marrying and moving away; but we do have a lot of new kids being born to the ones who have stayed, and there is a renewed vigor being supplied by the young Adults.
They are stepping up and taking on responsibilities and work that we older folks are becoming less able to do.
And so it goes...
The Mormons have conducted their business under Tge radar, almost unnoticed all these years. Why would they risk the exposure of their cult like beliefs and financial scams by running a Mormon for POTUS, and attempting to sneak another one (Marco Rubio) in as veep?
The more that people are informed about
Mormonism, the better it is for the country.
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