Ask a Mormon Anything...but please be polite :)

You didn't fix anything.
The 1st thing you do when you make an assertion is back it up with evidence.
What you described is usually what I do.
That is not proper protocol.

 

Wait....my changes did not fix anything but, are what you usually do and is not proper?

The first thing I do is generally offer opinion and commentary, which is followed by someone replying and my rebutting if required. Perhaps the reason you have difficulty in these threads has to do with your understanding of the debate process?

 

End of thread? Guess the "Rools" got in the way of the defense ( or were an excuse not to have one )

 

Do you believe you would believe the same things if you were brought up under other circumstances? Do you believe you have given other religions the same chance to convince you as your religion has?

 

Yes but they weren't the ones with the original message. They would get orders from God to deliver to us. So if he's busy making babies in the natural sense then how does he answer prayer?

 

Why is the Mormon church so incredibly cruel to gay people? Such as re-education camps and eventually excommunication? What good is a church or a god that can't forgive and embrace people?

 

I Give you these 15...*crack* .... TEN...Ten commandments!

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It's hidden in a giant warehouse now. I saw a documentary on it with Harrison Ford.

 

Question-

All those Rightwing Protestants who were calling LDS a "cult" before Romney won the Nomination in 2012....

then stopped calling it a cult out of partisanship during the 2012 Election....

are they back to calling LDS a "cult" again now???

 

I'm not a Mormon. I think that you guys are a cult with some serious doctrinal issues, however I fail to see how marrying more than one wife is sexist. Unless you have a double standard and women can't marry more than one husband having multiple wives is as sexist as fornicationg as a single with single women.

 

I still didnt voted for him. Because (a) I wasn't old enough to vote and (b) I still think Mormonism is a cult.

 

some on the alt-left, believe there are merely denominations of Religionists.

"Sects" within Monotheism is an example.

 

OMG, I am so worried you think our church is a cult.

Wait, you have many years of church membership????? No, I thought not.

To me the cult are the Democrats. Really, they are the cult.

Personally, a wife is also a responsibility. I never had the capacity for more than one woman at a time. I dated two at one time for a short period around 1984 and the stress was intense. I breathed a huge sigh of relief when we broke up.

 

Does the BoM teach that non-believers go to hell?

 

You are correct, having multiple wives is sexist. Having multiple spouses of either sex, isn't.

 

So you're what? 18-19-20-21 now? If so, that would explain a lot.

Let's see....home-schooled or did you go to fundamentalist Christian school?

 

But notice, it showed how "thin" the whole 2012-Romney Fundamentalist Rightwing Protestant and Rightwing Mormon "Alliance" was. It was a sham...like the Molotov/von-Ribbentrop Pact.

Soon as Romney lost? Your "friends" who were Fundamentalist/Evangelical Protestant went back to calling the LDS Church a "cult".

I'm sure Franklin Graham, James Dobson, Tony Perkins....i.e. the RW Protestant political/religious leaders have flip-flopped on it as well.

You may hate Democrats....but a WHOLE LOT of your fellow Republicans....don't trust you and the members of your Church.

 

I am advocating for a secretary of human sexuality; to advance equality.

We could promote the general welfare in such a manner that, every woman can marry a nice guy, and every guy can have a wife.

 

I am always leery when Democrats speak for republicans, See, I have been loyal to both those parties. I know how democrats operate.

I don't manage my life based on evangelists. I would think were we a cult, we would never have church permission to check out the rest of the churches. Cults love to clamp down on you and choke off freedom.

My church is ultra kind.

Why do the bulk of our members vote for Republicans is a decent question. We do in general back republicans. We have a fraction,.such as my deceased parents who were ardent Democratic party supporters. I know a good LDS friend of mine says he is a registered Democrat but he did vote for Romney. I think because Romney is a very good man and a member of the church.

If you wish low key, come to our church. We don't bite and we don't get radical. We are a very low key group.

Personally I would describe the members as more like family. And they are independent thinkers too.

A cult devotes itself to a human. We are devoted to GOD and Jesus Christ.

 

It is not so much I hate Democrats, I do loathe their leaders. They are being misled. And the leaders understand that they are misleading the rank and file Democrats.

But many democrats, such as my parents were when living, were very decent humans.

For many years, I too was deluded by the Democrats leaders.

 

That is a serious question. Let me try to go into more detail.

First know this. I have had Catholic friends whose church I went to with them. I have had baptists in my family and went to their church with them. I have attended non denominational churches as well. I have never gone to a lutheran church or some of the "god squad" churches, but got a good dose of bigotry against my church at one of the non denominationals.

I was informed there supposedly my church is a cult. I never figured out how that could be. It is so unlike our church yet we get called a cult. They do not understand our church is all I can conclude.

Now, since I have attended various churches, I found some do talk of hell.

I am 78 yet never at any time heard my church bring up Hell. I even searched our doctrine to see if it mentions hell.

So will you burn in hell?

Well, if so, i know nothing about that.

https://www.lds.org/topics/hell?lang=eng

 

That is too bad that bigotry caused people to shun Romney.

Who informed you our church is some cult?

I know as a baby you did not believe that. Somebody put that idea in your mind.

 

We marry one wife. To marry other women, per the law, we get divorced.

We try to have members get married in the Temple. By marrying the one wife there, it is hoped that is the only marriage for them. I don't call other churches cults. I may not agree with them, but to me a cult is not a church at all. It is a fraud on the public.

Reading your comments again, I see you just do not understand the church. I can't relate to your comments on women.

 

This is more a simple observation your church started with Polygamy and seem to have given that up only fifty years later the founding due to political pressure, yet up to then you accepted persecution to some degree taking it for the team, so don't you think the faith took the easy way out over the polygamist fringe Mormons who opted to stick to the original teachings? (Not saying they are proper Mormons if you say so and they might have cult elements but they do accept the persecution.)

 

I'll be honest and state that,IMO, all religions are cults. I was a Christian for most of my life. A few months ago I read the bible and found it to not represent an all knowing, loving or just being. I found it to be more like the writings of men with an agenda.

Looking at Christians from the outside, I see the disconnect they have with reality, logic and reason. How most religious people ignore the blatant absurdities of these books. My questioning here is to see if Mormonism follows the same trajectory, which it does. Thanks for your attention to my question.

 

We are huge fans of Jesus. Just the actual name of our church explains that.

So sorry you quit supporting Jesus.

I was reading last evening that in Europe, scientists proved there is life after death.

The Bible is very puzzling to me. The OT makes GOD seem like one angry entity. Then the NT shows up and he is a decent GOD. In the BOM GOD is fine.