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markbark

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3. Prime example of Pot, Kettle, Black.
Sun Oct 21, 2012, 09:02 AM
Oct 2012

Soooo... the difference between a "cult" and a "religion" must be a few million members, right?

This fellow seems to regard Mormonism as a "cult".
Must be new kid on the block syndrome.
I'm sure he's forgetting that 2000 years ago, Christianity was considered a cult.
The passage of time and the gaining of members has promoted it to a religion but their traditions are no more or less wacky than those promulgated by Joseph Smith.

The above breathlessly states "Never before seen videos of secret Mormon Temple rituals"
So it's an "exposé" of what exactly? Mormon opinion on metaphysics?

Sounds like he's whistling past the graveyard:
Look at all those silly Mormons!
Planet Kolob? Multiple wives? Christ partying with indigenous Americans?
How ridiculous! They don't have beliefs like us REAL Christians(tm)
(like talking snakes, virgin birth, water into wine, a guy reanimating three days after being nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if we were all just nice to each other for a change, etc.)

It's all just invented bullshit.
This guy has his panties in a twist because the Mormon fanfic doesn't gibe with the fanfic he was taught as a child.

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