ldsfaqs wrote:The Church has always been diplomatic when it concerned other religions.
Really?
Here are two quotes from the current LDS canon...
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 ccorrupt; that: “they 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.”
Behold there are save two churches only; the one is the church of the Lamb of God, and the other is the church of the devil; wherefore, whoso belongeth not to the church of the Lamb of God belongeth to that great church, which is the mother of abominations; and she is the whore of all the earth (Book of Mormon, 1 Nephi 14:10)
Brigham Young (Mormonism's Second President) said:
Should you ask why we differ from other Christians, as they are called, it is simply because they are not Christians as the New Testament defines Christianity (Journal of Discourses 10:230).
When the light came to me I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness (Journal of Discourses 5:73).
The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God (Journal of Discourses 8:171).
With a regard to true theology, a more ignorant people never lived than the present so-called Christian world (Journal of Discourses 8:199).
The religion of God embraces every fact that exists in all the wide arena of nature, while the religions of men consist of theory devoid of fact, or of any true principle of guidance; hence the professing Christian world are like a ship upon a boisterous ocean without rudder, compass, or pilot, and are tossed hither and thither by every wind of doctrine (Journal of Discourses 10:265).
... the time came when Paganism was engrafted into Christianity, and at last Christianity was converted into Paganism rather than converting the Pagans (Journal of Discourses 22:44).
Brother Taylor has just said that the religions of the day were hatched in hell. The eggs were laid in hell, hatched on its borders, and kicked on to the earth (Journal of Discourses 6:176).
Spencer W. Kimball wrote:
Presumptuous and blasphemous are they who purport to baptize, bless, marry, or perform other sacraments in the name of the Lord while in fact lacking the specific authorization" (The Miracle of Forgiveness, pg.55).
Is this LDS diplomacy?
ldsfaqs, you are either ignorant or a liar - which one?