Religious Question

[theGinsue]

I respond to the doorbell or a knock on the door with a loud and gruff "Who is it?".

I've found this is usually successful in intimidating anyone coming to my door. The point is to throw any potential evil-doers back onto their heels long enough to get the advantage.

One day about 2 months ago I did this and heard a little squeak for a response. This intrigued me enough to answer the door. In front of me sttod 2 very young little girls selling some homemade craft items with eyes as big as saucers. I felt horrible!

[ChunkyMonkey]

I take those door knockers all day long rather than building crashing religious zealots.

[Zundfolge]

If we don't recognize you we just don't answer the door.

[Irving]

I don't understand why people have such a disdain for Mormons. I really feel like most people know next to nothing about Mormons and they get a totally unjustified bad rap. I have a Mormon friend who's family moved her to Utah to be even more Mormon, and every time I've asked her about something, she always said something along the lines of "I don't know where you heard that, but I wasn't ever taught that, and never knew anyone who believed anything like that." She also loves the Mormon episode of South Park.

Mormons are just Christians who have more modern books. Joseph Smith was just a more recent profit. I always cringe when people bash the story of Joseph Smith reading testament off of plates, yet know that the same person has no problem believing in What's His Name interpreting specific things from a dewy piece of fleece. What's the deal with that? The Mormon's effort to bring Christianity out of an ancient grave by the addition of more recent stories and profits seems like a great idea and the most logical progression of any religion. I'd think it would be much more popular than people make it out to be.

[cowboykjohnson]

I was told by a very mormon friend in high school that the south park episode is surprisingly mostly true. I also worked with a man who was mormon, and his whole family still is, flat out told me mormon was sooooo close to a cult it was scary.

[Irving]

I guess it depends how closely you follow the literature then. Mormonism is based on Christianity isn't it? They believe in Jesus, the Old Testament, the New Testament, and then their own, later scriptures. I stopped allowing myself to be taken to church after sitting through a lecture telling me that I was a sinner just because I existed. I thought it felt pretty cultish. Anyone who follows anything exactly like the book, is going to be viewed as "cultish" by people who don't. That goes for tax collectors who won't give you any leeway of the tax law, and that HR lady at work who will chew your ass out and send you home if your skirt comes above your knees.

I just find it interesting that most non-religious people think that ALL religious practices are "cultish;" then you have religious people who are comfortable to a point, but still view others' practices as "cultish" when it's all the same type of stuff, only in a different shade. Tell me that sacrificing 12 yearling bulls, 12 lambs, and 36 cattle isn't "cultish."

*I hope you don't take this as an attack on you Cowboy, because it isn't. Your comment was just perfect material for me to expand my point.

[BigBear]

Sunday Mormons can I can tolerate... but when you get really involved and live/believe what Mormonism entails.... scary stuff...

http://www.lifeafter.org/ <--- site that explains some of their beliefs and etc. Interesting reading.


And Stu, sacrificing was done in the Old Testament as a way to ask for forgiveness of sin. There isn't any sacrificing in the New Testament (grr.. been a while, I hope I remember correctly) as JC was the last sacrifice needed to erase our sins. The NT is what Christians are supposed to be living with now. The OT should be treated as a historical reference and to see the Laws that man could not uphold.

[jim02]

I don't understand why people have such a disdain for Mormons. I really feel like most people know next to nothing about Mormons and they get a totally unjustified bad rap. I have a Mormon friend who's family moved her to Utah to be even more Mormon, and every time I've asked her about something, she always said something along the lines of "I don't know where you heard that, but I wasn't ever taught that, and never knew anyone who believed anything like that." She also loves the Mormon episode of South Park.

Mormons are just Christians who have more modern books. Joseph Smith was just a more recent profit. I always cringe when people bash the story of Joseph Smith reading testament off of plates, yet know that the same person has no problem believing in What's His Name interpreting specific things from a dewy piece of fleece. What's the deal with that? The Mormon's effort to bring Christianity out of an ancient grave by the addition of more recent stories and profits seems like a great idea and the most logical progression of any religion. I'd think it would be much more popular than people make it out to be.

I agree with you, before I moved to Colorado I had never knew any Mormans, I believed it was a large cult and they had many wives and all the typical stuff.
At my job I there were 3 young Morman guys and 2 of them I became good friends with.
They welcomed my in and extened a hand far past what anyone else in the community did. 1 of them was a newlywed and they had me over for Christmas and even had a gift for me. Everything I knew about Mormans was false.
They are good people from my 10 years of experience with them.

Now dont confuse most Mormans, those that follow The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints out of Salt Lake, UT with fundamentalist Mormonism like those in Eldorado,Texas or Colorado City, AZ who pratice child marrage and polygamy.

Edit: I am not a Morman and they knew that and never tried to convert me, they have some diffrent ideas but much of what I see is the same as other Christans.

[cowboykjohnson]

No attack considered, that was just what I was told by former followers. I really didn't consider it cultish until he made all his points to me clear from his perspective. I personally have nothing against them...

[Beprepared]

Some people live hard lives and find "religion" and they want to share it.
Some people have a traumatic experience where "faith" got them through.
Some people had "miracles" and it changed their life for the better.
Some people....

I believe in God. I believe that there is ONE God and His name is Jesus Christ, who came to this earth in human form to take our sins to teh cross once and for all. But I do not go out and knock on peoples doors and force feed 'em my personal beliefs... If people have questions, they can ask. I might throw some stuff out there now and then when I'm with a good friend and they are desperate or serisouly looking, but I don't force anything.

It's my personal beliefs. Some people think my beliefs are cultish, I think some others beliefs are cultish...

I don't know what I'm trying to say, just thought I'd post something.

If you don't take offense, great. If you do take offense, then keep on scrolling down and ignore me. Nothing to fight about.

God Bless All. People can and do change.

Well said!

As for the Mormons...their beliefs are a bit odd. Most Mormons I know are great people. If your a practicing Christian they tend to leave you alone. Many I know are armed to the teeth. They have a good preparedness mindset. Food banks for their own to last a year. They'll even teach non Mormons how to can food. You can also make arrangements to use their facilities.