why me wrote:Nothing wrong with celebrating someone's birthday who was born two days before christmas. I feel sorry for the poor souls who were born on the 23 or the 24th of december and who are christians. They must feel cheated a little.
Would it be any different for christians born the 26th or 27th?
No. But because Joseph was born two days before christmas and the church recognized his birthday when he turned 200, the exmos seem to exploit it. They need to relax and see the context.
I intend to lay a foundation that will revolutionize the whole world. Joseph Smith We are “to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to provide for the widow, to dry up the tear of the orphan, to comfort the afflicted, whether in this church, or in any other, or in no church at all…” Joseph Smith
Why Me, who needs exmos and critics when the church has it's own faithful history to speak for itself....
"Joseph Smith wrote:In all these affidavits, indictments, it is all of the devil--all corruption. Come on! ye prosecutors! ye false swearers! All hell, boil over! Ye burning mountains, roll down your lava! for I will come out on the top at last. I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam. A large majority of the whole have stood by me. Neither Paul, John, Peter,nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet. You know my daily walk and conversation. I am in the bosom of a virtuous and good people. How I do love to hear the wolves howl! When they can get rid of me, the devil will also go."
"Jesus gave us the gospel, but Satan invented church. It takes serious evil to formalize faith into something tedious and then pile guilt on anyone who doesn’t participate enthusiastically." - Robert Kirby
Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer. -- Henry Lawson
Listening to a recent Bible Geek podcast, a questioner made the comment that the Mormons considered Jesus to be Elias to Joseph's messiah. Have to say, I had to agree.