[Conservative Vermont Vet]

So what?

There are a few (only a handful, thank God) of Freepers here (more than likely, bitter, "Paul Bots") who ALMOST DAILY (due to their IRRATIONAL hatred of Mormons, though NOT ONE can verbalize their reasons therefore, other than some massacre which happened 155 years ago) demonize, insult, disrespect and otherwise, attack Mormonism.

Of course these same delusional (oh, but "Principled" dontcha know?) Freeps NEVER, EVER, attack the "Religion of Pieces" (or Dear Leader's continued defense or even support thereof as well as having recruited several members of the Muslim Brotherhood) and how it is a REAL threat to our Security and Survival.

BEAM ME UP SCOTTY!!!

[RaisingCain]

“So what?
There are a few (only a handful, thank God) of Freepers here (more than likely, bitter, “Paul Bots”) who ALMOST DAILY (due to their IRRATIONAL hatred of Mormons, though NOT ONE can verbalize their reasons therefore, other than some massacre which happened 155 years ago) demonize, insult, disrespect and otherwise, attack Mormonism.”

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Well that’s an incredibly ignorant lie. Just two days ago I utilized Free Republic as a resource during an online debate with a Mormon cultist. There are TONS of reasons to hate MormonISM, and there are literally thousands of threads breaking Mormonism apart from every angle, tackling every lie of Mormonism and providing valuable evidence. It’s even more useful than the book Kingdom of the Cults.

With my use of the information here on FR, the Mormon was reduced to ranting and raving (in text form) saying, since I did not have a Theology degree, that I have no background for interpreting Joseph Smith’s and Brigham Young’s claims of Mormons living on the sun and the moon, and other various retard/fraudulent claims that Mormonism makes.

Mormonism is an anti-Christian cult which damns those who follow it and sucks them into a culture and an environment that suppresses freedom of thought, and encourages ignorance and deception on the part of its members.

These are good reasons to hate MormonISM for a Christian, whose chief concern is the Truth (Jesus being THE Truth) and the refutation of Demonic lies. Of course, maybe you aren’t actually a Christian.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

” though NOT ONE can verbalize their reasons therefore”

I have a clear reason to tell the truth about Mormonism - it leads people to hell. I don’t want them to go there.

[Ronin]

While not totally onboard with your rant, I am definitely in tune with the general principle.

I have become very frustrated in recent months at the anti-Mormon bigotry that has cropped up since the Romney candidacy — most especially because for literally YEARS prior to that, Free Republic had an ongoing and apparently popular LDS caucus that engendered no hatred, caused no controversy, and was utterly unremarkable — just as the Catholic caucus is today.

It’s heartbreaking. In my experience over the years, I have had a lot of dealings with Mormons. I have found them to be, for the most part, honest, hardworking, patriotic, generous to a fault, clean living, and strong supporters of the family. In short, they tend to epitomize the character traits Conservatives admire most — or say they do, anyhow.

(There’s also been a few dickheads, but every organization attracts its share of those.)

Things have sure changed since Romney. The LDS caucus is gone, as are most Mormons (or they’re keeping very quiet), jokes about magic underwear are rampant, with polygamy fighting it out for second place.

Sad.

[muawiyah]

So, how often have you said "drink the kool aid"?

Do you have any idea what that is about ~ whose church was involved ~ what it means ~

I don't think Mormon underwear has killed anybody yet although I do know of a lady who got strangled by a bedsheet ~ but the Jonestown thing involved both mass suicide and mass murder by doctrinaire Leftwingtards who'd infiltrated the Christian Church (DIsciples of Christ).

Joking about the underwear is hardly in the same class as mass murder. To wit: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2840559/posts

 and http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2896036/posts

 and http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2890499/posts

 and http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2898171/posts

Anyway Google.com says you've done that 665 more times.

What is disturbing is you use it to defend Romney AND to attack those who question Mormonism.

Talk about somebody holding a grudge. Sidney Rigdon and the LDS parted ways about 1844. Mountain Meadow was 1857 ~

Time for you to give up the war with the Disciples of Christ!

[Godzilla]

BEAM ME UP SCOTTY!!!

And you accuse others of being IRRATIONAL

[svcw]

How terribly bigoted of you to disparage islam. My god how irrational your rants are.
Listen, you might have brilliant point if this thread were about islam, it’s not. If that’s what you want to talk about start your own thread.
There is not hatred of mormons on FR, there is nearly daily exposure of mormonISM.
If you are offended by that and apparently you are, explain what your are offended by.
What is posted on FR primarily in the Religion Forum about mormonISM are words of their leaders. THEIR leaders, not made up words THEIR words.
How you have apparently missed that is beyond is beyond me.
mormonISM by its very nature is anti-Christian. It is blasphemy. It is degrading of Jesus Christ.
How on earth does that not offend any thinking person is a mystery.
So one must surmise apparently that you know nothing of mormonISM but want to defend it anyway or you are a mormon and can’t defend it.
Remember this is the Religion Forum.

[svcw]

How terribly bigoted of you to disparage islam. My god how irrational your rants are.
Listen, you might have brilliant point if this thread were about islam, it’s not. If that’s what you want to talk about start your own thread.
There is not hatred of mormons on FR, there is nearly daily exposure of mormonISM.
If you are offended by that and apparently you are, explain what you are offended by.
What is posted on FR primarily in the Religion Forum about mormonISM are words of their leaders. THEIR leaders, not made up words THEIR words.
How you have apparently missed that is beyond is beyond me.
mormonISM by its very nature is anti-Christian. It is blasphemy. It is degrading of Jesus Christ.
How on earth does that not offend any thinking person is a mystery.
So one must surmise apparently that you know nothing of mormonISM but want to defend it anyway or you are a mormon and can’t defend it.
Remember this is the Religion Forum.

[ejonesie22]

Figured that out all by yourself did ya...

[Elsie]

There are a few (only a handful, thank God) of Freepers here (more than likely, bitter, "Paul Bots") who ALMOST DAILY (due to their IRRATIONAL hatred of Mormons, though NOT ONE can verbalize their reasons therefore, other than some massacre which happened 155 years ago) demonize, insult, disrespect and otherwise, attack Mormonism.

You must FAIL to read things directly from MORMON sources that we post.

Why is that???

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Questions put to Joseph Smith: "'Do you believe the Bible?' [Smith:]'If we do, we are the only people under heaven that does, for there are none of the religious sects of the day that do'. When asked 'Will everybody be damned, but Mormons'? [Smith replied] 'Yes, and a great portion of them, unless they repent, and work righteousness." (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 119).

Joseph Smith: "for the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to the Bible" (from Pearl of Great Price 1:12). "What is it that inspires professors of Christianity generally with a hope of salvation? It is that smooth, sophisticated influence of the devil, by which he deceives the whole world" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p.270).

 

 

 

Brigham Young stated this repeatedly: "When the light came to me I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness" (Journal of Discourses 5:73); "The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God" (Journal of Discourses 8:171); "With a regard to true theology, a more ignorant people never lived than the present so-called Christian world" (Journal of Discourses 8:199); "And who is there that acknowledges [God's] hand? ...You may wander east, west, north, and south, and you cannot find it in any church or government on the earth, except the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (Journal of Discourses , vol. 6, p.24); "Should you ask why we differ from other Christians, as they are called, it is simply because they are not Christians as the New Testament defines Christianity" (Journal of Discourses 10:230).

 

 

 

Orson Pratt proclaimed: "Both Catholics and Protestants are nothing less than the 'whore of Babylon' whom the Lord denounces by the mouth of John the Revelator as having corrupted all the earth by their fornications and wickedness. Any person who shall be so corrupt as to receive a holy ordinance of the Gospel from the ministers of any of these apostate churches will be sent down to hell with them, unless they repent" (The Seer, p. 255).

 

 

 

Orson Pratt also said: "This great apostasy commenced about the close of the first century of the Christian era, and it has been waxing worse and worse from then until now" (Journal of Discourses

, vol.18, p.44) and: "But as there has been no Christian Church on the earth for a great many centuries past, until the present century, the people have lost sight of the pattern that God has given according to which the Christian Church should be established, and they have denominated a great variety of people Christian Churches, because they profess to be ...But there has been a long apostasy, during which the nations have been cursed with apostate churches in great abundance" (Journal of Discourses , 18:172).

 

 

President John Taylor stated: "Christianity...is a perfect pack of nonsense...the devil could not invent a better engine to spread his work than the Christianity of the nineteenth century." (Journal of Discourses , vol. 6, p.167); "Where shall we look for the true order or authority of God? It cannot be found in any nation of Christendom." (Journal of Discourses , 10:127).

 

 

 

James Talmage said: "A self-suggesting interpretation of history indicates that there has been a great departure from the way of salvation as laid down by the Savior, a universal apostasy from the Church of Christ". (A Study of the Articles of Faith, p.182).

 

 

 

President Joseph Fielding Smith said: "Doctrines were corrupted, authority lost, and a false order of religion took the place of the gospel of Jesus Christ, just as it had been the case in former dispensations, and the people were left in spiritual darkness." (Doctrines of Salvation, p.266). "For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging to the place of salvation ...Joseph Smith declared that in the year 1820 the Lord revealed to him that all the 'Christian' churches were in error, teaching for commandments the doctrines of men" (Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 3, p.282).

 

 

 

More recent statements by apostle Bruce McConkie are also very clear: "Apostasy was universal...And this darkness still prevails except among those who have come to a knowledge of the restored gospel" (Doctrines of Salvation, vol 3, p.265); "Thus the signs of the times include the prevailing apostate darkness in the sects of Christendom and in the religious world in general" (The Millennial Messiah, p.403); "a perverted Christianity holds sway among the so-called Christians of apostate Christendom" (Mormon Doctrine, p.132); "virtually all the millions of apostate Christendom have abased themselves before the mythical throne of a mythical Christ whom they vainly suppose to be a spirit essence who is incorporeal uncreated, immaterial and three-in-one with the Father and Holy Spirit" (Mormon Doctrine, p.269); "Gnosticism is one of the great pagan philosophies which antedated Christ and the Christian Era and which was later commingled with pure Christianity to form the apostate religion that has prevailed in the world since the early days of that era." (Mormon Doctrine, p.316).

 

 

 

President George Q. Cannon said: "After the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized, there were 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, p.324).

 

 

President Wilford Woodruff stated: "the Gospel of modern Christendom shuts up the Lord, and stops all communication with Him. I want nothing to do with such a Gospel, I would rather prefer the Gospel of the dark ages, so called" (Journal of Discourses , vol. 2, p.196).