Atheism is not a religion, right?

[_Corpsegrinder]

I'll leave Mormonism when it posts something negative about another religion.

That's a typo, right???

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Has the LDS Church at any time actually put that on a billboard?

JMS

I don't think they had billboards back when Joseph Smith wrote the first vision. Why does the medium matter? A billboard wouldn't even be conidered official doctrine. Where it is right now is official doctrine.

[_aranyborju]

Why is it not okay for an atheist billboard to say that all religion is wrong, but it's okay for Joseph Smith's 3rd account of the 1st vision to say that all religions are wrong???

God the lack of critical thinking around here is mind boggling.

Has the LDS Church at any time actually put that on a billboard?

JMS

No...they send missionaries around to knock on doors and read it to people instead...would you prefer atheists did that? Srsly, which is worse?

[Tator]

Had to comment on this...

I'll leave Mormonism when it posts something negative about another religion.

Really Drifting, your logical mind is faulty.

JMS

18 My object in going to inquire of the Lord was to know which of all the sects was right, that I might know which to join. No sooner, therefore, did I get possession of myself, so as to be able to speak, than I asked the Personages who stood above me in the light, which of all the sects was right (for at this time it had never entered into my heart that all were wrong)—and which I should join.

19 I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that: “they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof.”

http://www.LDS.org/scriptures/pgp/js-h/ ... lang=eng#0

You're welcome.

[_Corpsegrinder]

Why is it not okay for an atheist billboard to say that all religion is wrong, but it's okay for Joseph Smith's 3rd account of the 1st vision to say that all religions are wrong???

God the lack of critical thinking around here is mind boggling.

Has the LDS Church at any time actually put that on a billboard?

JMS

It's not official doctrine unless it's on a billboard? is that how it works?

[_Sophocles]

Had to comment on this...

I'll leave Mormonism when it posts something negative about another religion.

Really Drifting, your logical mind is faulty.
JMS

Had you served a mission (instead of just going on splits a few times) you might have remembered this passage from A Marvelous Work And A Wonder, part of the missionary library:

Oh, yes ; we may find plenty of churches, such as they are, but
how incomparable to that matchless temple built upon the rock of
continuous revelation, wherein were apostles and prophets, priest-
hood and power, helps and healings, gifts and callings, discernment
and directions, angels and inspiration, baptism and the laying on of
hands, revelations and righteousness.

In imitation of this sacred edifice we have a thousand compet-
ing counterfeits erected upon the shifting sands of creedal changes.
Without windows of inspirational light they depend rather upon the
flickering flare of human learning, which at the best is but contra-
dictory to itself.

The learning injected into the Papist will never make him a
Protestant; and the education of the Protestant abhors and repu-
diates that of the Papist. The enlightened Universalist sees only
narrowness in other teaching, while the polished Episcopalian ap-
proves only of Episcopalianism. The learned Lutheran cannot
make his books read him into any other church, and the Baptist di-
vine, rejecting all others, presents his cause as the simon-pure con-
tinuation of Christianity.

Never was it known that the Methodist college turned out any-
thing but a Methodist, while the Presbyterian schools evolve only
Presbyterians.

Thus it is that the ecclesiastical learning of the age is nothing
but a mess of contradictory ritualistic rot, nursed by tradition, dei-
fied by denominationalism, and protected by the prejudice of the
priest.

[_DarkHelmet]

God the lack of critical thinking around here is mind boggling.

Has the LDS Church at any time actually put that on a billboard?

JMS

It's not official doctrine unless it's on a billboard? is that how it works?

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[_aranyborju]

Having an opinion on why one hasn't joined other religions vs plastering ugly messages on a billboard and demanding people go out and mock other's beliefs are two different things. If that concept is too hard for you, then oh well.

And the fact Atheists don't get it flies in the face of the premise Atheism understands Morality.

JMS

Atheists are either moral or they aren't, just like anyone else. Religion has nothing to do with it.