(June 30, 2013 at 12:16 am)Regens Küchl Wrote: Every Christian church believes in an ovious fraud, so no reason to damn the mormons for it especially. At last they never murdered 100 000 000 people in the new world alone, like the great christian churches did.
I thought this thread would be informing about sinister inside things of the LDS church(es) of today, like religious mind control, corruption et cetera.
Instead for the 1000th time this thread brings the old "Joseph Smith digged for treasure in his early teens, so he must have been the worst of all men!" routine. Or : "Mormons believe in the Book of Mormon, so they are despicable!" routine.
As good I could say :"Jews believe in the Torah and Talmud, so they are despicable!"
See what I mean ? The argument is not logical.
So does anyone here have some real inside information about sinister ongoings in todays LDS churches or not?
This isn't a conspiracy theorist's corner.
Mormonism may be an obvious fraud to the trained skeptic, but I was a missionary once and I saw firsthand how the Church can dupe the unwitting. There's some serious psychological damage that happens when someone stays in the Church for a long time, so it's a very serious matter, and any and all information on this organization, I feel, should be talked about whenever possible, not only if there's some big, sinister, underhanded plot going on.
You want underhanded? You should look up the time when the LDS Church's last president, Gordon B. Hinckley, actually gave in to blackmail. Or have you heard about the Mountain Meadows Massacre or Blood Atonement?
And even if you have, we're talking about things that everyday people can understand. I didn't make this thread for shock value, but as a place for people to share information. And the Thread title is catchy, so I don't feel bad that you got drawn into reading it.
Now, do you have anything real to contribute, or are you going to gripe about something you have no control over?
