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In reply to the discussion: I don't want to put down Mitt Romney's Mormon faith [View all]boppers
(16,588 posts)To be "elite", I guess, is incredibly easy, then. If you have a year to spare, you, too, can get one (as some journalists have done, just to see the same "secrets" available at their local library).
Which kind of contradicts the word "elite", but whatever.
Hinduism and Islam aren't (agruably, Allah is the same god to Jews, Christians, and Muslims) Arbramic faiths, but you are basically running a standard "Blood libel" game, if you want to stay in one child the Arbramic faiths:
1. Pick an enemy.
2. Distort and exaggerate a belief.
3. Claim being "attacked" by them for the exaggerated belief.
Christians aren't the enemy of Mormons, as they worship Christ as part of the godhead, but they don't *replace* God with worshiping Christ (or his mom, for that matter). Such beliefs caused (and still cause) quite the schisms over the years.
"Even the Mormon religion admits that a temple recommend is rare, and only applies to between 15% and less than 20%"
You keep repeating this, without offering any evidence. I am guessing you aren't distinguishing between "having a current recommend" and "getting one, but one bothering to keep it up, because it's no big deal for anybody to get one".