That’s just bizarre. Obviously, we know he can’t actually be speaking face-to-face with God. Therefore, he’s either delusional, or this is a massive scam. Since it’s unlikely that Mormon presidents have all been delusional in succession since the religion’s founding, then it suggests it’s a scam. It’s amazing. Really, how does this religion survive? This is practically the definition of the word “cult.”
I’m guessing that one becomes a Mormon president by being an upstanding Mormon. I wonder how one turns from an upstanding Mormon into someone who essentially lies about directly conversing with God.
It all just seems so fantastically made up. It makes me wonder if I’m being too lenient on automatically dismissing this religion off and I shouldn’t bother giving them the benefit of the doubt (not in the sense that their religion is the true one, but rather in the sense that there must be some logic to their beliefs – really it seems as if there’s no sense to it whatsover). How do they know it isn’t all just made up? Why do they believe it in the first place without something showing them it’s worth believing in?
Do they still teach that black people turn white when they become holy? I sat next to a Mormon on a flight once and had a conversation with him and he denied that claim, yet I do read that this really was Mormon doctrine. It’s also just weird. It suggests racism and you have to ask, is there any documented case where a black person turned white thanks to becoming a good Mormon?
I know that as Catholics, we do claim fantastic things, but at least we have miracles to back them up, such as Eucharistic miracles, miracles for canonisations, Marian Apparitions that even non-Christians have witnessed, etc. We still have miracles till this very day of an advanced scientific age; we don’t limit our miraculous happenings to the middle ages. Mormonism is a relatively new religion, coming to existence just as science was making great strides. Therefore, a black person turning into a good white Mormon should probably have been somehow documented and verified, right?
On this case, I’m judging them on the same basis that I welcome everyone to judge us Catholics; we have miracles to back up our teachings, reminding us that our religion is correct and that our fantastic claims are substantiated.
Mormonism seeks out to claim fantastic things as well… but aren’t Mormons yearning for proof? Like a black person turning white? That doesn’t seem too much to ask for, even if it’s exceedingly rare.
I’ve never been able to figure out why anyone would believe Joseph Smith over anyone else who has made similar claims, and I have a lot of believing Mormon family. It is frankly how I came to convert to Catholicism, from a LDS to atheist background. I see no reason to believe any claims but those of Jesus Christ. Everything else is, to my view, rooted in a person or persons who just one day decided to fire up their own religion.
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get wet enough for them.
saddened to realize that there are people out there who believe that this gentle young soul needed anything other than “Come ye blessed of my Father…” to enter into Heaven.
