[wardaddy]

It looks odd

I resist the Mormon bashing I see here....there are good Mormons here

We almost lost a very good one a few years back but he beat it

My kids have LDS friends and they have great manners

It’s a creed for many and just because it’s not for me I’m sure not going to act like I’m superior to those born into it

But yes the polygamy thing has a dark history no question

Polygamy really deprives average men of a mate and can create discord ripe for martyrdom

[ohioman]

I have to admit that one of the baddest men I ever knew was a Mormon guy. He was a Drill Instructor and Military Historian, who also went over and kicked ass in the Iraq war back in 2003. Me and him worked together at a Defense Contractor years ago and he was a great guy. We would play Basketball at lunch and he could not stop my inside power moves to the hoop. However, he made up for it by fouling the ever-lasting hell out of me. I still scored most of the time, but I paid for it. I wonder what he is up to today? Last I heard, he helped set up some grade schools in Iraq many years ago while still in the service. I hope he went for Trump.

[Pelham]

“My kids have LDS friends and they have great manners.

I had some good LDS friends in high school. The one closest to me died young of cancer. I don’t know as many now as I don’t move in their circles.

“It’s a creed for many and just because it’s not for me I’m sure not going to act like I’m superior to those born into it”

I wouldn’t call it a creed because for me that makes it sound like just another denomination of Christianity. It’s not, if anything it’s a 19th century variation on Gnosticism, borrowing Christian forms for an entirely different purpose.

I suspect that Paul was writing about some other Gnostic group when he penned the opening of Galatians but it always makes me think of the ‘Angel Moroni’:

“But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than that which we have preached to you, let him be accursed.”