Ask me a Mormon Question

[Cinjin]

Magic Mormon Underpants VIDEO

Amazing how much utter stupidity humans are willing to believe just to feel some kind of inner warm fuzzy feeling.

[Red_Baron]

Are you one of the 10,000 Mormons who think that polygamist guy in Texas that was sentenced to prison for having young wives is a prophet and can talk to god?

also how do magnets work.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

I know how the foundational claims of the church are not true and that they were twisted around many times. The fact that a lot of stuff is disturbing is the reason I left it. However, I hope you mean by true history you mean more than watching the South Park episode on TV.

Indeed, I even tried reading their loopy book a couple of times.. I can kind-of understand how gullible and deeply ignorant people could be conned by that semi literate nonsense in the nineteenth century,but TODAY: EG Lamanite theory, black people have no souls,baptising dead people. Do they really believe everyone gets his own planet? What was their original scriptural authority for polygamy as an imperative?

Is the "Mountain Meadow Massacre" widely known by Mormons? How is explained,seeing Brigham Young was almost certainly culpable, if not directly involved in the murders. (At the time he was head of the LDS and governor of Utah)

I know how the foundational claims of the church are not true

Oh ,you meant the Angel Moroni, the golden tablets and magic lenses,that Jo Smith read from his hat? Not true? I'm shocked.

[searchingforanswers]

Lol has anyone here seen the book of mormon?

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Lol has anyone here seen the book of mormon?

Yes. See my post.

The Scientology of its day. No surprise LDS has become mainstream and bourgeois..

[Gawdzilla]

Would you like to stay for lunch?

   

[The Grand Nudger]

Sits next to the bible on the shelf, wedged between the koran and the vedas.

[Skepsis]

I really don't know much about Mormons, but I do remember the whole bit about God living on another planet impregnating women all the time.

[Rokcet Scientist]

The magic underwear. Can't believe no-one asked about it yet

Saw some1 say that the most devout/fundamentalist will never completely take it off.

It protects against sin/satan? How?

These are referred to as "sacred temple garments." I never wore these because I didn't make it this far in my 12 year reign.

In order to wear these, you must fulfill the ordinance of the endowment ceremony. This is the ceremony with the washing an anointing, you wear special clothing that is white and the men wear this cap that looks like a bakers hat, you watch a movie about Adam and Eve, then you learn the tokens which are handshakes and password to go along with each of them that you have to do with a man behind a sheet that you can't see that is playing the part of God. Also, you are given a password that you have to say before crossing the veil. This represents the password that you must give to god along with the tokens before you can get into the celestial kingdom that they believe will happen someday in another realm. After you cross the sheet you get to sit in the celestial room until you are ready to leave that I believe is all white and represents heaven.

A current Mormon will never disclose the details of the ceremony because it is a sacred ceremony which must not be talked about. Before 1990 you used to have to make blood oaths to not disclose the secrets by the penalties of having your throat slit and you bowels removed. This was removed from the ceremony in 1990 because of how strange and masonic it all was.

The clothing you wear only in the temple but you must wear the special undergarments at all times except for showering and swimming as a reminder of the commitment that you made with god. The way it protects against sin is the symbolism of it all. On lds.org to order the temple garments you have to have a code that they give you after you attend the ceremony in order to buy them because they only want those worthy to be wearing them.

So bascially that is the idea behind the garments. It is not much different than a wedding ring really. It is just clothing to remind them of their committment they made to god.

Wow!
Assuming you are serious Mormons are a LOT crazier than I already thought!

I shudder to think that someone with a tin foil hat, ermm... "special under garment", would be the "leader of the free world". Appropriately an oxymoron if ever I saw one!