It’s not mockery, intolerance or bigotry when Mormons do it.
As someone who’s old enough to remember the LDS temple film before the 1990 changes, it’s awfully rich for Mormons to complain about lulz aimed their way when part of their most sacred ritual used to include chuckling at a cinematic portrayal of a bumbling Christian pastor cast in the role of Satan’s hireling.
By: Chino
You can go on youtube and see Missionaries pretending to be baptist preachers and plenty of other offensive things. And the things the leaders of the LD$ “church” have said over the years… holy crap!
“When the light came to me I saw that all the so-called Christian world was groveling in darkness.”
- Prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, v. 5, p. 73
“With a regard to true theology, a more ignorant people never lived than the present so-called Christian world.”
- Prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, v. 8, p. 199
“The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God”
- Prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, v. 8, p. 171
“Christians—those poor, miserable priests brother Brigham was speaking about—some of them are the biggest whoremasters there are on the earth, and at the same time preaching righteousness to the children of men. The poor devils, they could not get up here and preach an oral discourse, to save themselves from hell; they are preaching their fathers’ sermons —preaching sermons that were written a hundred years before they were born. …You may get a Methodist priest to pour water on you, or sprinkle it on you, and baptize you face foremost, or lay you down the other way, and whatever mode you please, and you will be damned with your priest.
- Apostle Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses, v. 5, p. 89
“Both Catholics and Protestants are nothing less than the ‘whore of Babylon’ whom the Lord denounces by the mouth of John the Revelator as having corrupted all the earth by their fornications and wickedness. Any person who shall be so corrupt as to receive a holy ordinance of the Gospel from the ministers of any of these apostate churches will be sent down to hell with them, unless they repent.”
- Apostle Orson Pratt, The Seer, p. 255
There are dozens more!
I just love how Mormons call themselves prophet, apostle, bishop, elder (some 18 year old knocking on your door) without ANY theological education, seminary, ANYTHING that would qualify them for position such as bishop. As for apostle, do they live during the time of Jesus? Prophet, so they,re chosen by God? Give me a BREAK! And, they claim they are the one true church when they go against so many of the Bible’s teachings, prohibitions, and laws? And, follow a book that a known criminal, a con-man, wrote that reads part fairy tale, part science fiction? Whew!
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LikeDislikeI remember that segment of the temple film. The Pastor wasn’t a bumbler, and there was no chuckling because the point the film was making was not to make fun of the pastor. In the film the pastor taught that any who professed to be servants of God should be called upon to demonstrate some great miracle, such as cutting off an arm and restoring it again. The point was that those who teach that we should seek for such signs are deceived by Satan. The Bible teaches that when someone professes to be a servant of God, ye shall know them by their fruits. The fruit the scriptures speak of is Christlike behavior, not arm chopping and restoring. When someone is living the gospel and teaching others to do so, that person is a servant of God. That’s what that segment of the temple film was trying to teach. Perhaps it was removed from the film because so many people missed the point.
Do Mormons get a planet when theory go to meet their god?
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