Heavenly Mother

[gnome]

I suppose it all depends on how you like to spin it. No fan of Mormonism here, but in that version at least, the goddess's part in the whole operation seems fairly normal. I mean, it's made up and stupid, but it's not quite so creepy.

In the Catholic version, if you don't start with their doctrines and strange sexual ideas, we seem to be left with God grooming a woman to accept involuntary artificial insemination without enough awareness to call it a rape.

That is an interesting point. I think there may be an overall impression of Mormons as some weird offshoot of Christianity, but when you think of organized Christianity as already pretty weird, that variation doesn't really come off much different.

 

[gnome]

Then you leave the trinity and move on to the fourtinity.

That's how paganism works. According to them, One god manifests in the form of many beings. They originally believed in only one god, but unconsciously became polytheists. The devil's trap is always the same.

Hindus: "333 in 1"

Christians: "3 in 1"

Pantheists: " all things in 1"

New Agers: "we are in 1"

Make it "The Many-Faced God" ... it's all the same idea, you get to be polytheistic and monotheistic at the same time.

 

[Chanakya]

That is an interesting point. I think there may be an overall impression of Mormons as some weird offshoot of Christianity, but when you think of organized Christianity as already pretty weird, that variation doesn't really come off much different.

When I heard of that weird bunch of islanders that apparently believe Prince Philip was God, and now that's he's gone Prince Charles is, what I thought was, this is something that ought to be publicized really really widely. Because most people, first time they hear of this, will probably literally ROFL away at the weirdness of these weird folks; but then, if they're able to link this to their own pet theistic superstitions, then they'll find that their own version is no less weird. Allah-cultists, or Jesus-cultists, or the Shinto types, or the Hindu Trinity, or the weird Mahayana/Vajrayana not-god gods and deities, all of them, every one of them.

Absolutely, compared to the weird RCC fairy tale the Prince-Philip-as-God tale comes across as relatively sane! And sure, the Mormons are crazy weirdos, and all of their beliefs, old and new, plain cuckoo --- but no more so than anyone else's weird beliefs.

 

[Myriad]

Then you leave the trinity and move on to the fourtinity.

That's how paganism works. According to them, One god manifests in the form of many beings. They originally believed in only one god, but unconsciously became polytheists. The devil's trap is always the same.

Hindus: "333 in 1"

Christians: "3 in 1"

Pantheists: " all things in 1"

New Agers: "we are in 1"

Maybe, but if you believe in "the devil", your god is now just (at most) "1 out of 2."

 

[Chanakya]

Then you leave the trinity and move on to the fourtinity.

That's how paganism works. According to them, One god manifests in the form of many beings. They originally believed in only one god, but unconsciously became polytheists. The devil's trap is always the same.

Hindus: "333 in 1"

Christians: "3 in 1"

Pantheists: " all things in 1"

New Agers: "we are in 1"

Muslims: "I'm busy trying to uncross my crossed eyes, and trying in vain to formulate coherent words off of my dribbling mouth. I'm a silly ignorant moron that believes in and worships a foul monster whom I call Allah, and I'm so very stupid that I can't even see what a comical silly fool I am."

In other words: They're all silly, these beliefs. Whether 333 in 1, or 3 in 1, or all things in 1, or we are in 1, or 1 in 2, or just 1, or whatever other random nonsense. Yes, their beliefs are cuckoo, sure; but yours are, as well. (Should you harbor any nonsensical theistic beliefs yourself, that is. I'm not sure you do, harbor crazy belief in some monstrous Allah-god I mean; and if you don't then naturally this doesn't apply to you).