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CentralCali · Joined: 17 May 2007

C'mon! You're don't seriously think IGTG managed to post something credible, do you?

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

Alex Jones just plain makes up stuff in Endgame, to sell a DVD. Why should he be any different here?

Czarjorge · Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 12:14 am Post subject:

http://www.jewsforjudaism.org/web/Mormons/mormons.html

Here's one version of the etymology of the word Mormon.

I've seen it used in fiction as a word to describe "the other" for Jews, akin to Gentile or the way the Amish refer to all non-Amish as "English."

Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee · Joined: 25 May 2003

Prison Planet Rolling Eyes

tomato · Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 5:47 am Post subject:

When Joseph Smith, or whoever wrote the Book of Mormon, made up names which sounded like Biblical names.
One of his favorite ploys was to take the beginning of one Biblical name and graft it onto the end of another Biblical name.
One of the Nephite prophets was named Mosiah.

igotthisguitar · Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 7:29 am Post subject:

tomato · Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 5:13 pm Post subject:

When I read that article, I got curious about what Ed Decker had to say about Joseph Smith's unfulfilled prophesies.
I found this Website:

http://www.saintsalive.com/mormonism/falseprophetjs.htm

Here are some of the high points:

■ Joseph Smith said that Jesus would return in 1891. In fact, Jesus would return 10 years earlier if Smith met a violent end, which he did. The years 1881 and 1891 passed without incident.

■ When Joseph Smith took on extra wives, his first wife Emma was understandably unhappy with the idea. Smith said that if Emma continued to disapprove, she would be "destroyed." Smith himself was killed a year later, while Emma lived to a ripe old age.

In fact, Emma helped their son Joseph Smith III start a new church in Independence, Missouri, which preached that polygamy was a sin.

I once heard a member of that church quote JS III as saying, "I don't believe my father was a polygamist. If he was, it was wrong."

I can't imagine a man being a polygamist without all his children knowing about it, but that's another story.

■ Smith must have been the 19th Century counterpart to Pat Robertson. It seems that he invoked H F and D on anyone who disagreed with him. The cities of New York and Boston would suffer "desolation and utter abolishment" unless they accepted his mission. As for the church's mission in other countries, some of those countries have banned the church, but they have not been "brought low" as Smith predicted.

Smith and his followers decided that the city of Independence, Missouri was the New Jerusalem which God decreed for them, and that the current residents would just have to move out. To the surprise of no one but the Mormons, the people would not move out. Smith revealed that God would send 10,000 angels to intervene for them. No sign of those angels came, so Smith and his brethren took their obnoxious behavior elsewhere.

■ While in Independence, Missouri, God told him to purchase a lot in that city and to build a temple there. Smith made the purchase, but that was about as far as he got before he and his followers were driven out by the irate townspeople.

According to a source which I read elsewhere, a splinter group acquired title to that lot by some legal fluke. The group is too small to raise enough money for such a major project, so the lot is now flourishing in daisies and dandelions.

CentralCali · Joined: 17 May 2007

Ed Decker? Wow. You guys don't miss a trick. I almost fell out the window laughing.

tomato · Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 2:05 am Post subject:

CentralCali!
Fancy seeing you here!

tomato · Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 6:14 am Post subject:

Here is something which I got to hand to the Mormons:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090311/ap_on_re_us/states_of_happiness

The anti-Mormons gleefully pounce on any divorce statistics, crime statistics, or any other statistics which makes Utah look bad.
But here is one which makes Utah look good.

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

Believing centuries-old myths instead of millenia-old myths like normal worshipers is the surest way to make yourself look like wacko in today's world.

agentX · Joined: 12 Oct 2007 Location: Jeolla province

Well, look who's crawled out of the woodwork today! Razz

Anyway, I thought the Mormons were agog over their "top secret" internal ceremonies (with gaudy garb) being shown on HBO's "Big Love" show this Sunday. Between that and Prop-8ate they would have enough fish to fry and not wanna get even Alex Jones on their case.

I guess the Mormons never heard the phrase "when there's smoke, there's fire".

Kepler · Joined: 24 Sep 2007

It's a drug induced happiness according to exmormons-
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