thews wrote:Wake up... seriously. Mormonism is false = wrong = not true. It's not Christian, it's not true, it degrades women as objects and people of color as lesser humans. If you want to pretend to drink the blue KoolAid and paint this ruse that you actually believe it, go for it, but it sickens me.
Thews, I happen to believe someone is in control of the universe, is actively involved in preserving some good things into the eternities, and will in fact preserve some good things into the eternities. I call that someone God. Perhaps we disagree with regards to that someone's attributes, but I really don't see how you can call my belief in the existence of such a being a farce.
Tell me, please, for someone like me who believes in such a deity,
what's the conscientious alternative to believing what the LDS Church says about the being who's in control of the universe?
You said the LDS Church "degrades women as objects"? How do you figure? It degrades "people of color as lesser humans"? I think that's a bit of an exaggeration, but if you're talking about the theories that blacks were less valiant in the pre-existence then I need to confess that I got caught up in that when I was a teenager myself, but it's been over three decades since the LDS Church has
even mentioned ideas like that, and it's recently come out and said completely to the contrary.
The LDS Church isn't Christian? Once again, how do you figure? Who gets to decide who is Christian and who isn't?