From: agr00@ccc.amdahl.com (Anthony G Rose)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc
Subject: Re: Why do people give Mormons a hard time?
Date: 12 Dec 92 05:00:04 GMT
Reply-To: agr00@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Anthony G Rose)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <1992Dec11.164533.9464@ac.dal.ca> hartigan@ac.dal.ca writes:
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>Why in the name of the blazing blue Buddha do people hate Mormons so much?
>I am not a Christian in any socially meaningful sense of the term, but
>I have known a lot of Mormons, and a lot of other serious Christians,
>and in my experience, Mormons are the kindest, most hard-working, most
>decent, most moral, least objectionable Christians around. These are
>generalizations, of course, but I worked for a Mormon once, and he
>was one of the most decent men I have ever met -- and so were 
>most of his friends, his sons, etc.   I think their dogma is more than
>a little loopy, but geez...no more so than regular Christianity. 
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>I do NOT want to start a flame war here, so let's keep this
>civilized, okay?
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>Note: if any Mormons think that a question like this will do more harm than
>good, just post a message saying so. I don't want to bring any more
>flak on you than I know you already get.  I'm just baffled by the
>animosity many people have against the LDS church. Is it just
>sectarian back-biting?
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>Sean Hartigan
>hartigan@ac.dal.ca
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>Let he among you who is without sin cast the first stone. 
>-- Usenet Survival Guide


No one is hostile toward Mormons as people.  As you have mentioned, there
are some very bright, sensitive, smart, and good Mormons.  I know many of
them that fit those categories.  My best friend is a Mormon.  The problem
is not with the Mormon people, it is with the LDS church's doctrines.

The LDS church is built upon the assumption that there was a TOTAL
APOSTACY within the Christian Churchs.  Mormonism cannot be true, unless
there was a total apostacy, because if there wasn't, there was no need for
a restoration, in which they claim.  So their "gospel"
(see Galatians 1:6-9) includes "the apostacy".  Therefore, they have over
46,000 full-time missionaries going door-to-door throughout the world
telling people in their living rooms that all the Christian churches are
an abomination in the eyes of God.  Wether they win a convert or not, they
have indoctrinated this fallicy in the minds of the people they meet.

We are instructed as Christians, to contend for the faith that was once
delivered unto the saints (Jude 3), and to test ALL things by the Word of
God.  Galatians 1:6-9 says that if we or an angel from heaven preach any
other gospel, let them be accursed.  The origianl Greek word that Paul
used is ANTHAMA, which is defined as THE WORSE POSSIBLE CURSE OF GOD.

Although the LDS church send thousands of missionaries all over the
world to teach about the APOSTACY of the Christian Churches, they spend
millions of dollars each year trying to convince the world they are
Christian.  Despite this delimnam and spreading the false accusation that
the Christian Churches are in an APOSTACY, we Christians love the Mormons
with all our hearts, and want to reach them with the true gospel of Jesus
Christ, so that they may come to know Jesus Christ for who he claimed to
be.  The ONE AND ONLY TRUE GOD, in the flesh.

You ask, as many Mormons do, "why are you persucuting us"?  When the fact
of the matter is, that the LDS church threw the first stone when it
claimed that all of Christianity was APOSTATE.

If you were out in the middle of a river drowning, splashing your hands in
the air while gulping water by the gallons, and sinking into despair, if
I were on the shore safe and sound, and through you a life presever,
would you ask me, "WHY ARE YOU PERSECUTING ME?"

If you came home one night and your neighboors house was on fire, and
they were all asleep inside, would you say, I shouldn't bother them, they
are confortably asleep and I don't want to bother them?

Well, as Christians, we are waking up the Mormons who are sleeping in the
flames, and throwing ropes to those that are drowning.

When PERSON A tries to save PERSON B, even though PERSON B's church
sends thousands represenatives around the world to tell everyone that
PERSON A is APOSTATE; PERSON A can hardly be accused of persecution.
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