Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:You know, for all those whiny Mo's over at MDD complaining about Smithmas concepts like it simply don't occur in a vacuum. I wonder where Mormons got the idea to emphasize Joseph Smith on par with JC during the holiday season? Hrm? It certainly wasn't introduced by non-Mormons..
- Doc
Pick me! Pick me! I know!
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.
Of course there's not just one way of interpreting this quote.
And again, on the ground, at least in my ward, Jesus Christ is the reason for the season.
Regards, MG
Thanks for the link (I especially like the "best answer"), but there's no need for an interpretation when the statement is clear on its face.
I'm glad your ward has focused on Christ this season. My ward has focused on signing up for tithing settlement. I hear more about that, than Christ. Even yesterday for the "special Christmas program," only one speaker talked about Christ, and even then it was just regurgitating some of Christofferson's First Presidency Devotional address.
Trimble, you ignorant sack of rhinoceros puss. The only thing more obvious than your lack of education is the foul stench that surrounds you.
Tomorrow is Smithmas in my parents household. Growing up, my parents did in fact celebrate Smithmas. We would get together on his birthday and have a short lesson on the prophet, have dinner and play chess. Not sure where paying chess came from.
Sanctorian wrote:Tomorrow is Smithmas in my parents household. Growing up, my parents did in fact celebrate Smithmas. We would get together on his birthday and have a short lesson on the prophet, have dinner and play chess. Not sure where paying chess came from.
My parents also celebrate Smithmas. I remember singing "Praise to Man" and reading the First Vision in the JSH every year.
"I'm on paid sabbatical from BYU in exchange for my promise to use this time to finish two books."
To be fair, the spouse took me to our Branch's nativity thing & it was all about JC. It was funny, though. Kind of cringe worthy... Reminded me when we would do stuff like that on the mission. The Mo's here are pretty cool...
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
mackay11 wrote:Scott will be delighted. He's been hopping around for days like a 7yo boy needing a wee, waiting for you filthy apostates to start this thread.
The funny thing about Scott is that, given his limited audience and myopic fanaticism with his version of Mormonism, he just offends other Mormons.
"Any over-ritualized religion since the dawn of time can make its priests say yes, we know, it is rotten, and hard luck, but just do as we say, keep at the ritual, stick it out, give us your money and you'll end up with the angels in heaven for evermore."
Sanctorian wrote:Tomorrow is Smithmas in my parents household. Growing up, my parents did in fact celebrate Smithmas. We would get together on his birthday and have a short lesson on the prophet, have dinner and play chess. Not sure where paying chess came from.
My parents also celebrate Smithmas. I remember singing "Praise to Man" and reading the First Vision in the JSH every year.
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.
The problem with exmos is that they just can't understand it. But then again maybe they do but need to exploit a strawman anyway.
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 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?
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2 different threads same day 2 hours apart Yohoo Bat 12/1/2015
