Posted by:
Elder Berry
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Date: June 15, 2016 12:39PM
What would you say are Mormonism's Top 10 Denials? I've been trying to make a list in my head. I don't know if there are even 10? Maybe I'm just too far or too close to Mormonism.
Racism is probably in the Top 5 as well as sexism. They deny these routinely with a terrible history of historical inconsistency in both counts against them.
But I wanted something conclusive, entertaining, and clever. I would love such a list.
I went a-google-ing and found some great lists of which this one was paramount. Talk about a list (hopefully written for satire) written from a point of denial.
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Top Ten Reasons Why this Message WILL NOT be posted on this site
created by Huntsman Peter - 03/05/2008
10. It is very common for people who leave the LDS church to try and pull others down with them.
9. As the old saying goes...misery loves company!
8. People cant seem to realize that anti-mormon sites usually dont tell all of the truth...duh
7. If poligamy is so evil why did God ask many of the prophets of old to practise it???
6. If God called prophets for 1000s of years to speak to his children in the past why wouldn't he do it today??? perhaps because we dont need to hear him anymore??? perhaps he does not love us anymore??? perhaps he just doesnt have the power anymore???...If there were ever a time to hear the voice of the Lord with all the earths troubles...isnt it now???
5. After 1000s of attempts to prove the book of Mormon false by the best historians of Religion in the world, not one has ANY hard evidence that it is false...(not bad for a farm boy with very little education to make up)
4. There can only be one true church (God will not let the doctrine of his church be 99% correct and 1% made up)
3. Why is it with all these anti-mormon web sites that the LDS church is still the fastest growing church through conversion than any other in the world??? seems pretty good for the "church of the devil"
2. "...the standard of truth has been erected; No un hallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the great Jehovah shall say the work is done."
1. And who ever reads this list and does not post it on this web site is only proving that everything I have stated, is the truth... "
http://salamandersociety.com/toptens/And I also found Mr. McCue's article on Mormon denial containing this little nugget.
"I have heard this approach advocated by one General Authority during a personal interview with him, and by several academically oriented Mormons who choose for various reasons to remain affiliated with Mormonism. This is the “advanced course”. One had the gall to tell me that most Mormon bishops and stake presidents don’t really understand Mormonism or spirituality because they are too literal in their interpretation of both. Accordingly to this fellow, the “enlightened” Mormon intellectuals who see the deception, uncertainty etc. and decide to continue to believe and obey (at least when the feel like it ““ they are not generally as obedient as the true believers) are the only really spiritual ones. This is a vanishingly small group at the moment."
http://bobmccue.ca/2012/01/27/how-denial-works/A better mind reading of Mormon leaders I've not found and one so flawed a river of doubts runs through it.