Gazelam wrote:Can you specify a doctrine taught in the Book of Mormon that you have a problem with? List the verses please.
Gaz
Although your question is not relevant to the point of this thread, I would nonetheless be glad to answer it.
Nephi wrote in 1 Ne. 4 10&11 wrote: 10 And it came to pass that I was constrained by the Spirit that I should kill Laban; but I said in my heart: Never at any time have I shed the blood of man. And I shrunk and would that I might not slay him.
11 And the Spirit said unto me again: Behold the Lord hath delivered him into thy hands. Yea, and I also knew that he had sought to take away mine own life; yea, and he would not hearken unto the commandments of the Lord; and he also had taken away our property.
His defense is "God made me do it?" I have a problem with the lesson taught here. It was learned by the Laffertys, John D. Lee, the brethren in Cedar City, and just about anyone else who wants to put the blame on god for their actions.
Why is it god can't do his own wet work? Why did the leaders of Mormonism advocate carrying on the carnage that Joshua started by killing man, woman, child, and jackass in Jerico? And why is it that religious people dismiss the heinous acts of their followers but demand revenge for the Prophet, Hyrum and the victims of Hahn's Mill? -- Even unto the third and fourth generations? So much of turning the other cheek, I guess.
I know: testing the people and clearing the land of evil. Odd how murder is forbidden by the ten commandments but excused for plates of brass. Why do I think that grabbing the plates and running would have worked if only god would have made it work? No murder required: just paralyze Laban.
"Suppose we've chosen the wrong god. Every time we go to church we're just making him madder and madder" --Homer Simpson's version of Pascal's Wager
Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
Religion is ignorance reduced to a system.
