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In reply to the discussion: Mormonism is NO different than any other religion or club [View all]Zorra
(27,670 posts)156. Not buying. That club deliberately took away the rights of my lovely, innocent friends
and family in California. Just 4 years ago. They say they are sorry. Some of us don't believe them. I don't want to take the chance of a member of this fascist club running our country. They took it upon themselves, because of their belief that they know the absolute truth, and therefore, belief that they know what is best for everyone, to take away our rights in California. Even if you are straight, those rights are your rights also.
That totally separates the Mormon church from just being a harmless little boys club.
It's not just a harmless, benign little boys club. It deliberately hurts innocent people, did so in the recent past, and there is no reason to believe that it will not continue to do so if it is not prevented from doing so.
That Mormon "club" also overwhelmingly votes for republicans.
That Mormon "club" believes the infallible omniscient omnipotent creator of all that exists hangs out on a mythical planet called Kolob.
Heaven's Gate was an American UFO religion based in San Diego, California, founded in the early 1970s and led by Marshall Applewhite (19311997) and Bonnie Nettles (19271985).[1] On March 26, 1997, police discovered the bodies of 39 members of the group who had committed suicide[2] in order to reach what they believed was an alien space craft following the Comet HaleBopp, which was at its brightest.[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_%28religious_group%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_%28religious_group%29
People's Temple was a religious organization founded in 1955 by Jim Jones that, by the mid-1970s, included over a dozen locations in California including its headquarters in San Francisco. It is best known for the events of November 18, 1978, in Guyana, in which 909 people died at the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project (informally, and now commonly, called "Jonestown"
and nearby airstrip at Port Kaituma, and Georgetown in an organized mass suicide/killing.
The mass suicide and killings at Jonestown resulted in the greatest single loss of American civilian life in a non-natural non-accidental disaster prior to the events of September 11, 2001. Casualties at the airstrip included, among others, Congressman Leo Ryan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_Temple
The mass suicide and killings at Jonestown resulted in the greatest single loss of American civilian life in a non-natural non-accidental disaster prior to the events of September 11, 2001. Casualties at the airstrip included, among others, Congressman Leo Ryan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_Temple
People have a right to believe what they wish. And I have every right to not trust organizations that deliberately do bad things to good people.

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Maybe I'm going out on a limb by saying that there's no way any Amish would ever run nt
riderinthestorm
Oct 2012
#109
I wouldn't either. I'm just pointing out that they live outside the mainstream
geardaddy
Oct 2012
#129
In any case, I'd guess it's a political loser to go after Romney's religion
struggle4progress
Oct 2012
#2
I don't think mainstream Christians seek a Theocracy, though sure, what religion wouldn't want to be
WinkyDink
Oct 2012
#51
Harry Reid has explicitly endorsed the separation of church and state. So has Biden (like JFK)
riderinthestorm
Oct 2012
#15
If you're going to use Harry Reid as the Mormon standard then its an important point
riderinthestorm
Oct 2012
#37
Sure but that's informed by his RELIGION and its dogma that a Mormon US president
riderinthestorm
Oct 2012
#63
Do you know of any other mainstream religions with a White Horse Prophecy these days?
riderinthestorm
Oct 2012
#82
"do you want the US Government to go back to it's policy of open religious persecution"
lalalu
Oct 2012
#150
And sexism. Even in the Mormon afterlife, women are second class citizens
riderinthestorm
Oct 2012
#9
yeah but in the fundie muslim heaven they have to service the martyr with 71 other women
loli phabay
Oct 2012
#24
Romney believes in the golden tablets. Obama believes that Jesus Christ turned water into wine.
Nye Bevan
Oct 2012
#7
It is considerably different. JFK wasn't a Bishop; he wasn't "fulfiliing" a prophecy for a Theocracy
WinkyDink
Oct 2012
#23
Not any more. Romney's term as a bishop expired many years ago, before he became a politician.
slackmaster
Oct 2012
#81
Why is Catholicism always the default comparison? Anglicanism began over a divorce, FGS.
WinkyDink
Oct 2012
#17
You are completely off-base re: Mitt's Mormonism. He believes; he is a Bishop; he speaks of his
WinkyDink
Oct 2012
#36
He's also demonstrably lived out his faith's tenets that women are not equal to men
riderinthestorm
Oct 2012
#49
gotta ask wtf is a possum lodge ive seen beaver lodges in the woods but never a possum one
loli phabay
Oct 2012
#118
Sure, Ma'am, But It is Obviously a Magpie's Collection Of Baubles And Shine
The Magistrate
Oct 2012
#76
Let's put it another way, they all pray, they all have churches/temples/synagogues
snooper2
Oct 2012
#149
Oh Nadin's not accusing DUers of slander. Its accusations of Nazis in their quest to demonize Jews
riderinthestorm
Oct 2012
#104
Then you know Mormon's also did their fair share of persecuting from the Mountain Meadow massacre
riderinthestorm
Oct 2012
#114
No, Magistrate made observations about Mormonism and you put words into his mouth
CreekDog
Oct 2012
#142
Religion is all about reassuring people that after death, they can go on with their lives
Taverner
Oct 2012
#110
Christianity itself is a cult. It was one of many that existed at the time of Jesus.
slackmaster
Oct 2012
#86
I struggle with this issue. I agree that it would be difficult to explain Catholicism, or any
Texas Lawyer
Oct 2012
#96
"Man is the only animal to have discovered the One True God.....several of them." Mark Twain
Tierra_y_Libertad
Oct 2012
#100
My favorite religions are Dervishes, the people who say shit like "falafel" and pretend they're...
porphyrian
Oct 2012
#125
Okay...how many religions, cults, and clubs want to replace the US government with....
OldDem2012
Oct 2012
#152
kind of like asking how many groups other than furries want a furrie president
loli phabay
Oct 2012
#155