Your Opinion About Mormons.

Nick1337 · Experienced Poster Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 42

Being a Mormon I would like to know about the opinions of the people on LifelessPeople.com. I will probably counter your opinions with what i believe. So Post!

allstar · green are the ways. Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 4133

Mormon are just like everyone else and like everyone else they have a different belief system that in serveral ways are the same.

I have nothing bad to say about mormons. (I hate to sound like a stupid person), but a bunch of my friends were mormons when I was growning up and except for a few things I did and music I listen differently they were the same as my other friend.

Now, also it depends on the case of mormon like everything else. You do have those that live by the book and are very strong in the belief that straying means certain bad things will happen. Then you have the lax mormon that kind of live by the book as long as in the end they do the things that are most important. Just like everyone else they have different levels of belief and how close you have to follow the book of mormon. Which I have read and enjoyed, it even inspired me to live a more peacefull life, but in the end I had some issue with it and followed my own path to my own belief system.

Only thing is the multible wifes issue. I have seen some specials on pbs that make it look like the husband is neglecting the needs of the women and also shouldn't, but does play favorites on whom gets his attension.

Other then that I like the value system mormons have. I enjoy when missionary's come around, they are always very pleasent to talk too.

Nick1337 · Experienced Poster Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 42

The Multiple wife issue is non-existant for the mainstream Mormons. Polygamy was outlawed in the church a looong time ago. Polygamy is also AGAINST THE LAW. The only Mormons you see in the news practicing Polygamy is those of the FLDS sect, a splinter group from LDS. If you visit mormon.org or do a search on mormonism you probably will find tons of anti-mormonism stuff. I respect the opinion of all the other denominations of christianity. And yes the missionaries are very pleasant to talk to.

marinaroz · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 3:14 am Post subject:

I do not know much about Mormons, except it's a branch of christianity that for some reason has controversy about it. As for me, I don't really care what religion people choose to follow, as long as they don't mess with mine.
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Golfguy · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 3:00 pm Post subject:

I know religion is about faith, but that religion is beyond the pale. If anyone has seen that episode of south Park, they will know what i mean Smile

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Nick1337 · Experienced Poster Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 42

Think about it. It is South Park. DO any of you honestly believe the stuff they put on that show has any true meaning. South Park is accustomed to trying to skewer various religions for fun, so techinically it is just to poke fun at Mormons

Magpie · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 3:04 am Post subject:

A couple of mormon missionaries knocked on my door once and we had a lengthy discussion about their faith and my atheism. They were really really nice people and we became very good friends, even though we agreed to disagree about our religious beliefs. Because I spoke to them, I now understand a lot of their beliefs and I think that the preconceived ideas that people have about the mormon faith are totally inaccurate.
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drath · D Joined: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 1704 Location: Canada

clpo13 · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 10:46 pm Post subject:

Hehe, I got some Mormon pamphlets once. They were pretty funny.

I see nothing wrong with Mormons. I take the same stance with them as I do with any other religion. Good for them, not for me. From what I've experience, though, Mormons seem to be a little pushier in trying to sell you their religion. And even when they're not, they can be a little annoying in how they tend to criticize anything you do that's not Mormon-kosher, or whatever. I know this isn't all Mormons, though, so I guess they can't all be that bad.
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Magpie · Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 1:59 am Post subject:

drath · D Joined: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 1704 Location: Canada

Ya, actually Jehovah's Witnesses are worse around here than Mormons. Almost everyday I see the guys in suits walking around in suits with a bunch of papers.

Vipralion · Lifeless Person Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 855

Why do Mormons try so hard to get others to convert to their religion? Is that what the Mormon beliefs teach?

So long as whoever's going around spreading the Mormon word is courteous and not aggressive in the word-spreading I'd have nothing against the Mormons. I haven't actually answered the door when a group came a-knockin though.

Actually, I might like a conversation with one of them. Find out what they're all about. I wouldn't convert of course but it'd be very interesting to talk with the religiously devoted.

By not being aggressive they simply provide an easy to access though sometimes inconvenient resource to the Mormon religion. It should only be right that all religions stray from insulting or nay-saying other religions or aggresively promoting their own. It's up to the individual to find their religious beliefs, find a religion that supports them, and devote away.
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clpo13 · Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:24 am Post subject:

I think I heard somewhere that mission is a required part of being a Mormon. Something like a few months or a year of trying to convert people. Of course, I was reading about Fundamentalist Mormons, so that might not ring true for all of them.
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Grimoire · Forum Regular Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 439

Don't fool yourselves that only mormons and jeohva's witnessess try to convert people.
Members of all religions do their best to convert their children to whichever arbitrary faith they happen to follow (usually based on e on which religon their own parents happen to follow)
It's a vicious cycle that's been going for thousands of years.
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Nick1337 · Experienced Poster Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 42

All the previous posts above are extremely well said. The Mainstream Mormons can be pushy about converting people, but that is not true of all of the Mormon missionaries. It really depends on who the missionary is.
Once again, being a mormon myself i disagree with some of the things the members of the church do.

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