Posted on 05/27/2010 6:44:33 AM PDT by Colofornian
What is it that you want?
Will it make you "feel better" to know that there are Christians who are scoundrels.
Does it make what Joseph Smith did somehow more acceptable to you?
On FR it has been made clear to you (or so I thought) that Christians will not deny there are scoundrels in their ranks, while lds do whatever they can to either cover up the actions of lds leaders or deny the severity of these actions or attack the poster and their motives.
So D where do you stand and what is it that you really want?
I do this for your benefit as you are deflecting and not responding to the questions I asked.
What is it that you really want?
It’s those security cameras - they make me LOOK bald!
Maybe they weren’t Christians?
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I believe many of the victims are Christians, but just as many, if not more, are lonely people trying to grasp on to anything.
They come to see these people as their ‘saviors’ rather than pursue a REAL relationship with Christ.
Part of why I got involved in the watchdog group was I briefly worked for a ‘pastor’ (at a school he ran) who I soon found out wasn’t a Christian, but a con man. He scammed and swindled his congregation, his student’s families, everyone. After he got kicked out of the Baptist church, he became a ‘Messianic rabbi’ and started the scam all over again.
And I have been working and doing battle on exposing him for several years. I dog him to the point that he has publicly said I am not a Christian.
His victims (and I would say this is true of televangelists and other con men as well - including J. Smith) fall/fell into several categories: True believers who can’t imagine that anyone would use Christ to ‘con’ them, those who put their faith in ‘religion’ rather than a relationship with Jesus, people who think he has ‘the magic answer’ to health and wealth, and those who think he is a ‘shortcut’ to God.
That there are wolves in sheep’s clothing (false prophets) should not surprise us. Christ told us there would be.
And it can be difficult to be a ‘cynical Christian’.
Right now? A cold beer and a burger...
I don’t know that I want anything.
It little matters whether Joe Smith is acceptable to me or not. Never met the guy.
Thanx for the help./s
lol.
Thank you for number 334
It little matters whether Joe Smith is acceptable to me or not. Never met the guy.
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I believe SVCW is under the impression (as were most of us by your early posts) that you are Mormon.
Taken from that point of view, her post makes sense.
344!
Thanks Dear...
She’s a women as well? Stumped me again!
You are welcome. :)
She’s a women as well? Stumped me again!
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LOL. It happens a lot on here. There are men who people assume are women (usually by the FR handle) and women who many assume are guys.
I once got a freepmail by a shocked freeper who said I was too ‘logical’ to be a woman. THAT was funny.
If it matters not, then why are you on this thread? It leads one to believe you are in fact looking for something.
I am not convinced that D is not lds.
I am in the dark closet, looking for the black hat, that isn’t there.
Actually, in my first post on this thread I was merely stating that the Mormans did in fact offer an apology for Mountain Meadows. To wit, I was told to “shut up.” Then was told the apology was “insincere.” Not sufficient,etc.
I have no idea why a mere statement of fact caused such angst among so many. No idea at all...
I left the thread several times. Then was summoned back, as if from afar...
Who told you to shut up? Name names.
Mormon Site Muzzles Members
Friday, May 21, 2010
By Julie M. Smith
ST. GEORGE–AP–August 10, 2010– Verna Watkins sits on her threadbare couch clutching a wrinkled tissue. Between sobs, she says, “I consider it the most sacred spiritual experience of my life . . . when the Three Nephites–divine beings–helped me change the tire on my Suburban. I spent two hours writing the story up to post to my Church’s website, and later I found out that they wouldn’t approve it. My own Church rejected the event most important to my faith.”
Ms. Watkins is one of many members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints–commonly known as Mormons–who feels betrayed by their church after it launched a website earlier this summer, but then took it down after only two months. While LDS Church Public Relations officials claimed that the site was removed in anticipation of a redesign, many Church members felt that the real problem was that the website solicited personal religious feelings–what Mormons call a “testimony”–as well as statements on doctrinal matters. When these poured in, Church leaders were overwhelmed by unorthodox material and left with a dilemma: either permit the unapproved material, which violates what they consider their obligation to “keep the doctrine pure,” or disallow their own members’ beliefs. Many Mormons felt betrayed when told by their Church that their beliefs were not approved.
http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2010/05/mormon-site-muzzles-members/
To wit, I was told to “shut up.”
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Poor Baby...
Who told you to do that ????
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