A so-called LDS religious scholar said FLDS more closely resemble Catholics & Baptists than LDS

[RebeccaJ]

None of the abuses you cite are part of FLDS theology. If they occurred, they would be in direct contradiction of FLDS teachings. You keep saying “these people,” as though they are all the same. I remember when it was common to say “these blacks” or “these Jews”

To be clear, “these people” is in reference to the adults from the El Dorado ranch in TX who are under a criminal investigation for the crime of child abuse.

The only reason their religion comes up at all is because it is apparent that the abuses have become a part of their religion.

I suggest you go to a Catholic university and study a little bit of Church history, as I did. The Catholic Church has a very long history of atrocities to which it freely admits.

As far as Warren Jeffs, he did not start this religion. If he was as really bad as you say, then you might feel sorry that the people who are simply following the religion of their anscestors got stuck with a bad leader.

A similar siutation would exist with Catholicism and all the bad popes it has had over the centuries. We don’t condemn Catholic religion as a whole because a pope is bad, and it is just as wrong to condemn a Mormon because he got stuck with a bad leader as well.

Perhaps you should realize that no matter how bad any pope was or is, there is no Catholic today that supports crime for the reason that a pope or the Church has been or is a part of that crime. Yet, that seems to be your stance with THESE PEOPLE from El Dorado. Why is that?

 

[xixxvmcm85]

1. As one poster said, I suggest you worry more about the implications of the state’s arguments than debate the theological differences betwene Mormons and Roman Catholics. The state said in a filing yesterday that they took all the boys because they believed in a living prophet. Since a prophet in Mormonism has a lower position than the Pope does in Catholicism, there may be something in the state’s arguments that may be directly relevant to you.

I most certainly agree that the state is constructing a mighty slippery slope here, however one comment in this post caught my eye: “…] a prophet in Mormonism has a lower position than the Pope does in Catholicism …]”.

I’m curious, how exactly have you come to this conclusion? Though I’m a very inexperienced Catholic (still a catechumen), I’m certainly a very experienced former-Mormon and one thing I do know is that whereas the LDS prophet can dramatically alter LDS doctrine at the whim of a “thus saith the lord” revelation, the Holy Father cannot do such with Catholic dogma.