Posted on 06/20/2012 12:17:00 PM PDT by Colofornian
...When Sean replaced his temple garments — the sacred underwear he’d promised to wear day and night — with boxers, I couldn’t take it anymore. It was too much betrayal. I called up a neighbor with a husband like mine and cried. But instead of empathy, she offered questions that stunned me into silence. Was Sean addicted to pornography? Watching R-rated movies? What sin had brought him to this terrible place?
...Her questions were so off-base...She was sincere, and trying to help, but she believed what the Church teaches — that a man would only leave because he’s disobeying the commandments. She couldn’t understand this was a rational inquiry. She saw everything as the result of sin.
...The Church was wrong about him. What else might they be wrong about?...
...I often found him hunched over his iPad reading everything he could find on Mormon origins...“I’m sorry, but I just have to tell you. Did you know that…” and then he’d tell me...About how Joseph Smith mistranslated some Egyptian hieroglyphics that are part of our canonized scripture. About how he translated the Book of Mormon while looking at a stone inside of a hat.
I listened half-heartedly...though I wasn’t about to go looking at them myself...until one night it was about polygamy, my archnemesis.
“Did you know that Joseph Smith married a 14-year-old girl against her will? Did you know that he’d send men on missions and marry their wives in secret when they were gone?” ...he kept talking, a horror growing in my gut. I knew that if Sean was right, then Joseph Smith was a fraud. I saw no difference between his acts and the modern-day acts of Warren Jeffs, whom I abhorred. And if Joseph Smith was a fraud — then what did that make the Church?
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You know, I was just told by several FREEPERs on another thread (see Op-Ed: Mitt Romney's proposed career path — President, then God [White House-->Great White Throne] that Obama deemed himself a "god."
True Muslims would deem that anathema.
The Romney operatives on FR can't seem to get their story straight: Many peg Obama as a closet Muslim slowly implementing sharia law; others couch Obama as a "god." Those are two contradictory worldviews...which shows you that most of the religious attacks upon Obama (other than the past Jeremiah Wright ones) are done minus proof.
I suppose that’s why Salon published today a critique of Obama from its more conservative wing (West Virginia).
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I read that piece, and it seemed to me to be a slam at those who oppose ObaMao.
I’m neither Mormon nor Catholic. I’m simply gratified that I needn’t choose between them. But, how does that alter the fact Mitt Romney will be the next POTUS?
How many Mormons ran for President before Romney...NONE.
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Actually, their founder Joseph Smith, Jr ran for POTUS in 1844. He was the first POTUS candidate who was assassinated, although it can be fairly argued that he wasn’t killed because of his campaign but because of his other behavior.
Beyond a Bishop (equiv to a Catholic priest or a Protestant Pastor), Romney was what the LDS call a ‘Stake President’ (equiv to a Catholic Bishop). He was middle management for them.
I’m not politically correct either. ;)
We even had a few characters here on FR chant the SLC talking points about us apostates.
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Yep we have. I’m still praying for your wife and child, btw.
I suspect some of the younger crowd have no idea what really good jelly beans are like and why!
I wished someone had warned me. Now it is all over the internet, praise God!
I have an LDS friend (from High School) who is trying to get her boyfriend to join the LDS. I warned her, either she tells him EVERYTHING or I will. She knows I mean it, too.
Good to stay away from that stuff.
There's plenty to deal with in any of this.
But, how does that alter the fact Mitt Romney will be the next POTUS?
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I don’t think he will. I don’t think he can actually win even in an election where it should be nearly automatic.
I think out of the 16 known candidates in the primaries that he is one of the few who couldn't.
How many Mormons ran for President before Romney...NONE.
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AH there was Joey Smith, the first mormon...
1844
he sent out mormon missionaries to knock on doors and campaign for him...
I’m so confident Obama can’t win, that I’m enthused about November 6th, Romney notwithstanding!
Who has a better relationship with God? Obama or Romney?
It's not material now. Newt is not going to be the nominee. Santorum is not going to be the nominee. Ron Paul is not going to be the nominee. Deal with reality, please!!
We're stuck with Romney whether we like it or not. The other alternative is Obama and you don't belong at FR if you want more of Obama. All third parties and protest votes may soothe your conscience but they do nothing to defeat Obama.
Romney can win simply because he's not the leader of an economic depression like Obama has been. That's the major difference between the two. Romney has at least a modicum of economic sense while Obama has none.
The first rule is to get your own political base to vote for you. The second rule is to get a faction on the other side to vote for you. You are going into a campaign with a candidate who cannot get his own political base to vote for him.
I think that is exceedingly stupid of you. Actually, it suggests serious mental retardation among the principals in GOP-e. Their chillun' should have themselves checked for serious genetic defects.
This other Romney guy was a candidate for a while.
If that were true, wouldn't Orrin Hatch and Harry Reid have identical voting records?
Salon the mormon church believes in inclusion so long as only people they like are included.
Who has a better relationship with God? Obama or Romney?
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Neither. Both believe and follow false gods.
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