If I Wanted to Start New Religion

[RebeccaJ]

…or go with “the book of zelph”.

 

[tarboy]

Don’t forget to change your name to Joseph Smith and call it the book of momon!

Ohh, I get it,
You guys are mocking them!

hmmm, I must have been sick alot more than I remember growing up.
I don’t recall one Catholic school religion class (6 yrs) nor one CCD class (5 more years) that taught this technique. I also don’t recall any sermons by Monsignor Gnedovic on this technique.

 

[JackVk]

And if you find a particular group of people irksome, don your cowboy hat, round up the family, make some picket signs, and protest outside wherever they may be, telling them that (insert deity here) hates them.

 

[JonNC]

Ohh, I get it,
You guys are mocking them!

hmmm, I must have been sick alot more than I remember growing up.
I don’t recall one Catholic school religion class (6 yrs) nor one CCD class (5 more years) that taught this technique. I also don’t recall any sermons by Monsignor Gnedovic on this technique.

Imagine for a moment, a Mormon who is having second thoughts about being in LDS, and decides to simply lurk here at CAF in order to seek more information about the CC.
Then imagine that he reads this thread…

Jon

 

[Wildkit]

TK,
What’s your point?

Jon

I just am smarter,…more insight than the rest of you folks! I must be better !! ?? I simply know more…

 

[vera_dicere]

St Adam and Eve Nudist Baptist Church.

I saw a documentry about a Christian [Baptist slanted] nudist colony. It was frightening.

 

[SteveVH]

I saw a documentry about a Christian [Baptist slanted] nudist colony. It was frightening.

Especially when everyone bowed.

 

[Lucky7]

I would agree that the mockery is inappropriate. However, it made me think of yet another Family Guy reference (which of course was meant to mock)…“The Church of Fonz”.

 

[TexanKnight]

Actually, I am not mocking anyone. People should not always assume the worst in a person. Those that did are just as bad you made me out to be in your condescending posts. What is worse? Condescending posts or presumed mockery? Anyway,…

I was discussing the LDS Church with a very good friend of mine over lunch. He has wanted badly for me to return to the LDS Church. I told him I could accept much of what the LDS Church teaches, but could never again get past Joseph and the Book of Mormon.

He asked me why. I used the OP as my illustration as to why I can;t accept Joseph. It was not mocking at all. Nor did he take it that way. It was simply to show how well-thought out Joseph’s plan was. To start something using people and lands etc that No one could ever find and therefore disprove him.

I apologize if anyone took it as mockery.

 

[colmywaykurtz]

Make sure to specify that the individual’s opinions/feelings on a subject trump any actual authority on the matter.

I hear people enjoy religion where they get to play God and decide for themselves what is truly right or wrong, so maybe toss in something about being your own god and they’ll bite?

Hubby and I often joke about opening a church called “The Church of God and Stuff” and tell everyone that as long as they believe in God (in whatever form they choose to believe), they can decide what else they can believe and they’ll be justified/supported by our church. It’s tempting; just IMAGINE how many people would flock to us! We’d be RICH!

I don’t know, didn’t the Unitarians already try that?

 

[SpeSalvi]

^Funny fact- I researched the Universal Unitarian Church a LOT in my inactive LDS days. I really loved the appeal of it, but I just couldn’t get behind the idea that God didn’t make a set list of doctrine; that everything was up to you on a personal level. I guess even then I should have been looking into the Catholic Church

 

[joe370]

and make it where I could not be truly second-guessed discovered…

I would write my own Scripture using a group of people no one can verify living in a place no one can find who wrote in a language no linguist will say existed.

And if I wanted to make it sound Biblical, I would write it in King James English (though no one in my time talks that way) and pepper it with lots of “and it came to pass”.

That is what I would do.

Texan, did you mean to be flippant or have I missed the message?

 

[EllieH]

Imagine for a moment, a Mormon who is having second thoughts about being in LDS, and decides to simply lurk here at CAF in order to seek more information about the CC.
Then imagine that he reads this thread…

Jon

Out of three pages, (thus far) one reasoned response. If I was the questioning one only upon the obvious thoughtfulness of this response would I consider going any further at all. I appreciate your mature observations.