What would I have to do or say to get you to rethink this? Why would you want to clutter this News Forum with unnecessary posts that will only provoke further acrimonious remonstration? The facts of your faith have always been beyond the grasp of many. Nothing you say will change the minds of most. You seem to feel that you are misunderstood. I am sure that your proselytizing is usually understood, yet summarily rejected.
The Angel Moroni may have shown golden plates to your revered Prophet Joseph Smith, that chronicled the visitation of Jesus to an ancient indigenous tribe in America that was the lost tribe of Israel. With no intent to bash, I can safely say that most people outside your faith feel that is a very broad notion for a person to wrap his mind around.
In spite of that, I do admire the religion that your belief has grown into, for its staunch conservative values, for its penchant for caring for all individuals within the community and even outsiders in need, and its ability, up until now, to stay above the petty attacks from some quarters. I urge you to continue to travel the upper highway instead of meandering down the alleyway with the Philistines.
On the side of beauty and taste, vulgarity; on the side of morals and feeling, coarseness; on the side of mind and spirit, unintelligence, -- this is Philistinism. --M. Arnold.
Signed proudly by KateUTWS
I just wish that many of the good conservative values of Mormonism could be more widespread, without the repression, forced conformism, false doctrine, resentment against questions, etc., of Mormonism.