“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.”
I opined a bit more frankly on Mormons here:
To: Catsrus
It’s simple
Their Christianity is plain different
They can believe as they want or born into
I would never say otherwise but when I read Smiths musings it gives me pause
And I like Mormons as a rule
It’s such an unusual happenstance just popping up in New York and the Midwest based on the dreams of one man and predicated on sexual mores that folks had to find troubling
Great way to very quickly expand a brand new religion though
And once established then do away with what made the church what it was so fast....literally 2-4 generations
Does your average run of the mill parishioner believe the Moroni book and that Smiths dreams were real and divine as say the burning bush
I don’t know
I would not make a good Mormon given I’m non conformist and rebellious and anti authority by nature
120 posted on March 23, 2016 at 2:43:54 AM CDT by wardaddy (Cruz path to nomination is a box canyon)
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