Religious Question

[jim02]

I would like to ask, is this the same way you feel when some kid knocks to sell cookies/junk or the guy knocks to sell you steaks out of his truck and all the others that knock to sell stuff?

Is this a pefect example of a free Republic, I have the right to come to your house and ask you a question and you have the right to answer no if you so choose.
As long as there is no trespassing or harassment I see nothing wrong with those who wish to sell you faith, cookies, magazines or any thing else they want.

[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.

[iamhunter]

@stuart

I dated a mormon girl for about two months.

Many of their practices are VERY different from Christianity, and many of their beliefs and hidden practices would not be looked on favorably in a public light.

Now, I must qualify, that I do not think all mormon churches are like this, but the one I had experience with definitely had some weird things going on, and, in my eyes, some less than acceptable beliefs.

[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.

[Elhuero]

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.

heh bigbear says go here to find out about Mormons and posts an anti-Mormon website.

here's the website you should go to if you have questions about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints: http://lds.org

I get a chuckle out of people that cry because someone knocked on their door.