The burden of proof is now on you since you made the accusation.
There you go again - bashing us MORMONS!
Trying to make us PROVE something when a mere ACCUSATION is all that is needed!
Just WHEN will you begin to learn the RULES?)Posted on 04/15/2010 8:56:50 AM PDT by T Minus Four
Think of the Salt Lake Temple as a designer bottle holding a one-of-a-kind fragrance.
Think of the gardens and buildings of Temple Square as bubble wrap around that container.
Think of the City Creek Center to the south, the Church Plaza to the east, the Conference Center to the north, and the Family History Library and Church History Museum to the west as a firm, sturdy box around all of it.
When something merits that much protection, you have to figure rough bumps and bounces are coming down the road.
I get a feeling the LDS Church sees turbulence ahead -- nasty weather -- and it is making preparations.
It's not about being defensive and keeping things out.
It's about being protective and keeping precious things safe.
When the chilly winds blow, forest creatures gather all that's life-sustaining about them.
Horses in the fields cluster together to stand against the hail.
I feel the LDS Church battening down the hatches for bad weather.
The Tabernacle Choir, which was performing musical versions of Robert Frost poetry and other secular works, now releases CDs filled with songs of faith, assurance and the need to rely on the Divine.
I feel protection is the point behind the long row of sentries -- those Mormon temples -- that stand along the Wasatch -- the new Brigham City temple, new Payson temple, the new remade Ogden temple and all the others.
I feel protect precious things is the point of the new mission statements of LDS businesses, the point for books that are picked for publication and the lessons selected for manuals.
Part of the world would divide and conquer.
The church would gather and protect.
Something uneasy this way comes. Not a vilent clash as in Jerusalem -- where cultures fight openly. We won't be seeing stone throwers in the streets of Salt Lake City.
The battle here won't be about territory.
It will be about choices -- about the advent of a bolder, more self-indulgent popular culture.
The church can see the writing on the wall -- often literally.
And graffiti on the temple will never do.
It's time -- as the old hymn has it -- to "safely gather in, ere the winter storms begin."
The plan is not to force people away.
The plan is to keep what's on the inside safe from harm.
And if that means putting up ramparts and watchtowers, so be it.
Even heaven, if you believe the stories, is a gated community -- not to keep people away, but to safeguard the gentle hearts of those who dwell there.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- E-mail: jerjohn@desnews.com Jerry Earl Johnston chronicles his take on the Mormon experience in his column “New Harmony,” which appears on MormonTimes.com on Wednesdays and Sundays.
Sorry about that, Nana. I got the #700 post without trying! I know you like to catch those rounded numbers.
Pay them no mind my friend have you not noticed their sickness is getting worst they say what ever pops into their mind like an uncontrollable force...
If you really believe that then WHY ON EARTH ARE YOU MORMON?
Is it just a ‘social club’ for you?
I believe that “the Father has a body as tangible as man’s, the Son also; but the Holy Ghost has not a body of flesh and bones, but is a personage of Spirit”. (Doctrine and Covenants 130:22)
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And that is NOT Biblical in any way. Smith didn’t understand the Trinity either.
Oh SNAP!!
The graphic is not insulting you. It is stating a fact.
The LDS church is not ‘the Lord’s Church’ and to claim that Christ founded a ‘denomination’ is insulting to Him.
I AM being civil consider the insults the LDS heap on my Savior.
lol
Sandy, you are right there are no ‘slaves’ in the LDS.
Slaves are less controlled than Mormons are. Sad thing is they are told so often that they have ‘free agency’ while being spiritually blackmailed that they actually believe they are CHOOSING to do what is demanded. Stockholm syndrome.
At least slaves realize they are under compulsion.
Silly Wabbit!
We are GOD?
or...
We are GODs?
Just WHEN will you begin to learn the RULES?)
"Your Honor, How can my client get a fair trial with all this evidence against him?"
D&C 9:8
"But, behold, I say unto you, that you must study it out in your mind; then you must ask me if it be right, and if it is right I will cause that your bosom shall burn within you; therefore, you shall feel that it is right."
"deceitful" will be debated, but AMBIGUOUS is a given!!
Two phrases containing "and so forth" are VERY open-ended!
But do YOU consider them as such?
But they do NOT consider fellow folks, who BELIEVE in the Book of MORMON and who actually FOLLOW GODs word found in D&C 132 to NOT be MORMON!
Some of our chickens have BLACK legs!
Have you heard the phrase “hosing the pigs”?
Yet another term of endearment we’ve glommed onto! ;^)
There ya go!
That's what is needed.
I think the ABSTRACT of varibles like X and Y and Z tends to confuse kids (adults, too ;^)
Some get story problems and some don't, but if 4X * 3Y = Z/2 is confusing,
rearrange it and say...
4 (cars) * 3(thousands of dollars) = (How much)/2
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