Buffalo wrote:"Scam" and "myth" sounds pretty mild in comparison. I guess Joseph Smith et all were just massive bigots. Right?
Again, that is between followers, not something publicly posted on large billboards and street corners.
JMS
You're moving the goal posts, it's an irrelevant distinction to establishing whether something is bigoted or not (talking about "niggers" in private doesn't make it okay) and besides, many were published in periodicals. Not to mention, no youtube in 1840.
What I'm hearing from you is "it's okay when my side does it."
Parley P. Pratt wrote:We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.
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.”
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
Drifting wrote:Canonised bigotry from the Mormon big man...
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.”
By your standard, all theologies are bigotry. They all have reasons they don't believe each other.
JMS
Great Spirits Have Always Encountered Violent Opposition from Mediocre Minds - Albert Einstein
jskains wrote: By your standard, all theologies are bigotry. They all have reasons they don't believe each other.
JMS
Just as atheists have reasons they don't believe in god.
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775
jskains wrote: By your standard, all theologies are bigotry. They all have reasons they don't believe each other.
JMS
How many religions claim Christ told them that Mormonism is an abomination and the whore of all the earth?
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
jskains wrote:I have seen too many atheists who are angry kids looking for attention.
JMS
My irony meter just fizzed, spluttered, then exploded...
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator