“Throughout their history, the Mormons have committed spiritual theft of all things Christians. Hymns are no exception.
If you look in the Lds hymnal, 190 songs are written by Christian, non-Mormon author/composers. That’s 53%!
So even the majority of hymns the Mormons leeched onto were Christian in origin.
Of course, Mormons still kicked all those author/composers to the spiritual gutter — labeling them along w/all Christian professing believers “apostates.” “
I find your terms “leeched” and “kicked to the spiritual gutter” and “apostates” used in a subjective, and incorrect manner. You’ve judged.. Am I correct?
You appear to be OK with JUDGEMENT, as long as MORMONism is doing it.
Is that a fair assessment?
If you "borrow" a song & tune -- but then proceed to call those who composed & wrote them...
...Not worthy of being in God's presence forever,
...Part of the anti-Christ movement,
...Part of a church that "ceased to exist"
...And that 100% of Christian professing believers were "corrupt" (see the word "all" in Joseph Smith History vv. 18-19 in the Pearl of Great Price)
...What would you in your grand "objectivity" call it?
And given the quotes on this post alone, how is that "incorrect?"
Lds 10th "prophet" Joseph Fielding Smith: Those who were honorable men who will be permitted to go to the terrestrial kingdom will be blessed with ministrations from the celestial kingdom. They will be privileged with visitations from Jesus Christ BUT will be denied the presence of the Father. (Answers to Gospel Questions 1:81)
Brigham Young: ...every spirit that does not confess that God has sent Joseph Smith, and revealed the everlasting Gospel to and through him, is of Antichrist, no matter whether it is found in a pulpit or on a throne." (Discourses of Brigham Young, p. 435)
10th Lds "prophet" Joseph Fielding Smith: "The power of the priesthood was lost and the true Church of Jesus Christ ceased to exist on the earth." (Answers to Gospel Questions, 1:97)
Joseph Fielding Smith: For hundreds of years, followingl the universal apostasy, the inhabitants of the earth walked in spiritual darkness. They became divided and sub-divided. Satan had obtained such power over their thinking that the fundamental principles of the gospel ceased to exist among them." (Answers to Gospel Questions, 5:xi)
12th Lds "Prophet" Spencer W. Kimball: "This is not a continuous church, nor is it one that has been reformed or redeemed. It has been resotred after it was lost...There was a long period of centuries when the gospel was not available to people on this earth, because it had been changed." (The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, p. 423)
13th Lds "prophet" Ezra Taft Benson: "...the Church...ceased to exist." (Condference Reports, Ocgtober, 1949, p. 26)
Benson: "...the church that Christ established during His earthly ministry ceased to exist." (Ensign, November 1988, p. 86)
9th Lds "prophet" David O. McKay: Three hundred years passed, and Christianity became the dominant religion of the most powerful nation in the world...Pride and worldliness supplanted humility and faith. The church became corrupt." (Conference Reports, October 1966, General Priesthood Meeting, p. 86)
You’ve judged. [yellowroses]
I've discerned.
And given the horrendous name-calling and labels Mormons have called us through the years...whores of Babylon, prostitute daughters of the mother-whore, what's there not to discern. Here, I'll pull a "milder" quote (meaning I won't quote Orson Pratt or Lds "prophet" John Taylor or some of the other worse quotes):
George Q. Cannon, Counselor to four different Mormon "prophets" as a member of the First Presidency: "After the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized, there wre only two churches upon the earth. They were known respectively as the Church of the Lamb of God and Babylon. The various organizations which are called churches throughout Christendom, though differing in their creeds and organizations, have one common origin. They all belong to Babylon. (Gospel Truth: Discourses and Writings of President George Q. Cannon, 2:56)