Your Opinion About Mormons.

[McNutty]

My opinion of Mormons is that they have been misled in their faith. I do however think that they know their religion far better than the majority of most Christians which is why Mormonism stands so well is because the Christian church is not educated as well to put down some of the doctrine that they hold to that is erroneous. I took a class at college a couple years ago called World Religions and Cults and it was very well documented, but I couldn't provide anything off the top of my head. I would have to go back to those notes if you want examples.

In any case, Mormons are very nice people who hold to almost the same morals as Christians, but they are treated better within our society because the name of Christianity is so marred by those who claim to the title but have no idea what it means. I do find it interesting, though, that other ethniticities were not allowed in the Mormon religion until after the whole civil rights movement following the "miraculous discovery" of a new text allowing different skinned people to become Mormon. The book of Mormon has been changed many times which is one of my big qualms with the religion as I feel it simply adapts to the society it is in rather than being a standard of living for all people to adhere to.

[clpo13]

Thanks for the clarification, Nick.
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[Raija]

My opinion on mormons is that they should not call their religion christian, as it is not even close to the evangelical christian religion that is based on the Bible. The mormons use a lot of the same expressions, but they do not mean the same thing, and that is misleading.

It would be nice if you could tell us about the planets and the gods that live there.

[Nick1337]

Sorry for not responding for so long. I've been away from the computer. I have quite a good knowledge of the doctrines of the mormon church so any more opinions are welcome.

[voltare]

I agree with most of what has been said, as well. I had missionaries knock on my door when I was living in both Japan, and here in Chile. I know a fair bit about their religion, and as far as christianity goes, it's pretty good (even if it's beginnings are a little unusual, it's no more mystical than the beginnings of any other religion.)

[Nick1337]

Thanks voltare. Now here is someone I can agree with. No more remarks on that post. Any more?

[mrLenin]

For my mind Mormons is like the catarrh. You think nothing serious, but it is the basic for other more serious diseases. So the Mormons is the same - it is deflected moral. Nothing good.
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[Pieri]

I don't know anything about mormons,but I can say they are very funny persons and they have beautiful music,they sing songs playing a lot of instruments and that's important in a religion.
It's another way to call people...

[Mr.Fraud]

[dylan2xs]

I had a girlfriend in highschool who was mormon. She was very nice also her family..nice people, awesome family values, I think it is really cool that the Mormons have their own community, but I felt pretty left when i was with them.I respect all religions, including the Mormon religion, but I think it is a bit disrespectful to convert people almost all the time, and thereby tell them that being a Mormon is much better than any other religion the people already believe in. one day one of them told me that he believes that he will become a god someday. he also used the god thing to try to convert me... well anyways i dumped my girlfriend in less than 2 months.. she was too "faithful" to the teachings of her Church, .. would be no sex before marriage, she wouldn't drink, smoke or do drugs. etc.. well .. a bit boring for me.




They are like overgrown boyscouts

[Grimoire]

[Nick1337]

Again, I am very sorry for my incredible off-time. Any new posts will be welcome and All the previous posts since my last post are very well written. thank you for your opinions.

[Xtreme]

Mormon theology, for one thing, is plainly absurd. No offense, but that's the simplest way to put it.

Some of the more eyebrow-raising things that come to mind include the Mormon belief that after death the faithful will somehow become substantively equivalent to God and will obtain for themselves their own planet or universe (or something) over which they can reign.

Or what about the embarrassing "mis-prophecy" in 1832 which Joseph Smith declared that within one generation there would be a great gathering in a "New Jerusalem" that would be built starting with a place of worship in Jackson County, Missouri. No Mormon place of worship was EVER, to the date, built where he specified, much less within one generation.

Or how about in 1835 when he declared that Christ would return in 50-something years? Yeah, nice try.

Or even a one-up to that: try Mormon teachers (with the blessing of the Mormon leadership) gallivanting around claiming (quite literally) that American Indians descended from a single Israelite who sailed across the Atlantic something like half a century BC. Yeah. Okay. Hope they don't do DNA ancestry investigation any time soon.

I'm not trying to be offensive, just point out that it's essentially impossible for Mormonism to hold up when put to theological inspection and examination.

[Grimoire]

Heh, I love religious in-fighting. You've no idea how amusing it is to see two groups asserting that their version of total fantasy is the correct one, or one group's fantasies are slightly more fantastical than the other, so it has less chance of being true.
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[martin]