mormonism

I use to be a Christian. But I don't think I was ever a believer. Even as a 6 year old I just couldn't believe a woman was made out of Adam's rib. Or that a snake spoke to Eve. Or a donkey spoke to Absalom. Or that a 500 year old drunkard built a huge boat and gathered two of every animal...

So this year's hot button in Mormonism is Heavenly Mother. That is, in Mormon doctrine God has a wife who bears spiritual children. These days the growing feminism movement has focused more attention on the possible veneration of Heavenly Mother. This has been heretofore forbidden. In the...

I'm splitting this off from the Anti-Muslim Terrorist Attack thread because I suspect it would be a sizable derail... For me, I'm against any marriages that are forced, Full stop. This includes monogamous ones in other religions, in which young girls can still be forced into marriage with...

This sounds like conditions dogs suffer with their hind legs, dragging themselves around. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11896915

I want to talk about my experiences being a gay Mormon and living in Utah. First of all, I've come to the realization that the Church is not responsible for my misconceptions about my sexuality. I left activity in the church when I was about 21 and I developed a complex of feeling bad about...

I just had a little blurb article show up on my Google News feed about a Mormon religious scholar lecturing about the swords mentioned in the Book of Mormon. Seems those ancient meso-Americans that JC appeared to had a variety of steel swords and other weapons. Unfortunately, no such artifacts...

L. Ron Hubbard may have been too much of an egotist to ADMIT to appropriating ideas from anyone else, but he was hardly original. I've found it's not uncommon for people to think one has gotten Scientology and Mormonism confused when one explains the cosmology of the two cults. Scientology is a...

Welcome to the LDS continuation thread. Older posts can be found HERE. Feel free to quote or link to them as you see fit. The cut-off point was arbitrary. The only reason is due to the length of the thread. Thank you. Why are there so many LDS Temple Divorces...

While critics like to take pot shots at the error riddled "Book of Mormon" a later fraud, "The Perl of Great Price", appears to be far more important from a religious perspective. In this thread I will post selections from "The Pearl of Great Price" for general discussion. We will use the...

Some young mormons just knocked on my son's door, trying to spread the word. My son and his housemates are atheists. They scoffed at the mormons' beliefs and told them they are atheists. The mormons proposed a challenge - they gave my son the Book of Mormon and told him to read it, and the...

I find it a bit strange that Romney's Mormon heritage isn't mentioned here more often. I can understand that in theory, melting pot and all, this shouldn't be an issue (like sexual orientation isn't an issue for European politicians), but in practice Mormonism is ******* out there, and the...

Early in the primary season, one of the favorite topics of the punditry was how Romney's Mormonism made him unelectable. The closer he came to becoming the inevitable nominee, the less we heard of this as an issue in the campaign. Now it seems apparent that there is a journalistic embargo in...

http://www.theofrak.com/2012/06/romneys-religion-sumerian-submarines.html In an earlier post, I inquired into the core beliefs that Mitt Romney probably has as a “true believing Mormon.” There is considerable evidence that Mitt Romney is a true believer, and I will not rehash them here...

As a former Mormon, I thought I might be able to shed some light on Mitt Romney's religion. I don't think most people appreciate how strange Mormon beliefs are. On my blog, I started a series of posts beginning with Romney's Religion: What does it mean to be a "true believing" Mormon. I plan...

So I'm a jaded 29 year old (damn you Obama), but I wanted to share a thought about Mitt Romney that occurred to me: when religion guides a politician, usually America is worse off. Since Romney is Mormon, he really can't allow his religion to guide his decisions, at least not publicly. It's...

Romney’s Mormon Problem Mitt Romney and the weird and sinister beliefs of Mormonism. By Christopher Hitchens Monday, Oct. 17, 2011 "I have no clear idea whether Pastor Robert Jeffress is correct in referring to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, more colloquially known as the...

Can I assume I won't be seeing a reply to my previous post? Just to remind you: So two people who care about each other and wish to get married is "a vulgar mockery"; do you apply this standard to: Forcing women into marriage? Forcing women into marriage for the material gain of her...

That's generally in line with past polling going back to 1967 according to Gallup. The breakdowns are somewhat surprising. Only 18% of Republicans would not vote for a Mormon, while 27% of Democrats would decline. And given that the question asked whether you'd vote for a Mormon nominee of...

We already have a thread on how silly Mormonism is, but here's a different question: how bad were they? I remember being quite surprised when I first read the Sherlock Holmes tale "A Study in Scarlett" to find that the dastardly villains were Mormons - I just didn't have the LDS pegged as a...

Does anyone know more about this? http://www.mormontimes.com/article/20386/Study-Routine-periodic-fasting-found-to-be-good-for-health-heart Afaik, the study has not been published yet, but I guess there's some kind of a preliminary paper out. I haven't found it yet, but the topic interests me.

I admit, as someone who was raised in the LDS church, that it strikes me as weird that so many people regard Mormonism as more weird than other religions. I just don't see it. I really don't get why the garments are something to snicker about but transubstantiation, special facial hair grooming...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/mar/31/book-of-mormon-review How has Utah reacted?

The Presbyterians say Mormons can't be scout leaders because they don't consider Mormons Christians. Well lets see. Gays can't be scout leaders and atheists can't even join. I guess a Muslim, a Hindu or a Jew couldn't be a scout leader either. These people are crazy.

its comes down to the idea that the "book of mormons" is blasphemous, and Joseph Smith being a charlatan (albeit an epic one). wiki- if your not familiar with the text, imagine a david ike novel hijacking an established religion, rewriting "history" its a shame that in the United States the...

Forgive me if you've heard this one before, but I had never heard it myself, so I simply had to share it with y'all. According to Mormon "urban legend", our hairy friend Sasquatch is really Cain of biblical fame, cursed to wander the earth forever, raiding pantries for baked beans and tossing...

Hi, I currently have the below thread in the History and Literature forum. http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=124603 In that thread which has over 14,000 posts I give some historical and other evidence why I believe Christianity is true. That thread has been closed...

I'm uneducated on this, so perhaps someone can clear this up for me. Do Mormons really believe that Israeli's were the real native Americans, and the Indians were native Americans who had their skin died, or something? Or is this just an allegory? I'm having a hard time believing that any...

Here is part of an article from a Mormon publication that I found on the internet. I am wondering is there is anyone on this forum who understands any of it. Specifically, what I am interested in is what the roles of the angels are, and how are they involved with end time events. What is the...

What do Jehovah's Witnesses do or say when Mormons come knocking on their door? And what do Mormons do or say when Jehovah's Witnesses come knocking on their door? This may sound like a joke thread, but I'm genuinely interested.

I vaguely recall seeing from another thread somewhere here in R&P that someone mentioned that Mormonism was actually polytheistic in nature, but that the LSD Church basically made that a kind of hush-hush secret teaching for marketing purposes (it might put off a lot of Christians whom they're...