Is Mormonism any less true or sillier than other religions?

[DC]

I'm not exactly sure how any religion could be "less true" than any other; however, yes, Mormonism is sillier than Judaism and Christianity...and a hell of a lot more cultish, as well.

isn't it a Christian sect?

 

[DanishDynamite]

Don't worry, it is no less or no more weird than scientology or any other religion.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Anybody who hasn't seen this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q6brMrFw0E

 

[DC]

Anybody who hasn't seen this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q6brMrFw0E

wow that extremely racist, is it true? always get doubts when videos are labled Banned

 

[Brainache]

I think the fact that their holy book was dictated by a convicted fraudster talking into his hat and the fact that they are expected to wear sacred underpants makes the Mormons sillier than most and just as true as any of the major religions.

 

[dylan2001]

Religion is precisely about asking questions. If your mind is unable to resist the nonsense answers that's your problem.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

wow that extremely racist, is it true? always get doubts when videos are labled Banned

Travis could tell us? Or not?

 

[AdMan]

Religion is precisely about asking questions. If your mind is unable to resist the nonsense answers that's your problem.

I don't know what questions you're asking, but most of the answers religion provides are nonsense, so it's not too hard to distinguish them.

 

[dylan2001]

Religion asks how can so much beauty coexist with so much pain?

 

[DC]

Religion asks how can so much beauty coexist with so much pain?

its actually a stupid question from a PoV of a believer, they have plenty of answers to it.

 

[dylan2001]

If your answers to that are easy I would like to hear them.

 

[dylan2001]

Lets hear them

 

[AdMan]

Religion asks how can so much beauty coexist with so much pain?

No; for the most part religion tries to rationalize away how there can be an omnipotent, all-good and all-loving god given there is so much suffering in the world.

It's the religious answers that don't make sense.

What does that have to do with Mormonism being extra silly, anyway?

 

[DC]

Lets hear them

they are not my answer, i am an atheist

but freewill, without evil there is no good, if you don't know how it feels to be unhappy how would you know how it feels to be happy? etc etc. they have many answers.

 

[Zep]

And the answer is always to fill their collection-plate.


LDS is the Scientology of the 1800's. It is silly in the sense that the religion is utterly illogical and oppressive in most respects. But it is "smart" in the sense that it is an ongoing successful business for fleecing millions of suckers for the benefit of a highly unworthy few. At least Phineas Barnum was honest enough to call his operation a "circus".

 

[Alan]

Things can occur.

Not all of them 'good'.
Not all of them 'bad'.

Why is it such a strange thing that beautiful things and painful things can both occur? Why is it some puzzle that some people have to come up with nonsense like "It was MAGIC" to non-explain it?

 

[dylan2001]

You make sweeping judgments about all answers to the questions that occur in the hearts and minds of people without any evidence or examples.

 

[DanishDynamite]

Religion asks how can so much beauty coexist with so much pain?

Religion asks no such sophisticated thing. It asks only that you send your money to 0800-IM-BRAINDEAD.

 

[Alan]

What is your answer to why beautiful things and painful things to coexist?

 

[dylan2001]

The question posed is whether or not mormonism supplies a viable answer and I propose that they do not.