Posted by:
txrancher
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Date: August 10, 2017 03:06AM
I got this inane email from someone I haven't spoken to in years about my son going on a mission. How did he even get my email?? And any communication in that time has included some insensitive and stupid comments. I dropped him from social media years ago, but somehow he still stalks me.
Here it is. I was thinking of ignoring it, but maybe I'll respond...if I feel like it will be hurtful (I'm terrible, I know.) So I welcome your best, cutting responses that I may include.
His message:
"XXXXX congratulations on X being assigned to serve in the XX XX mission (and leaving tomorrow)! Even though the likelihood of him learning Spanish as a missionary (like his pater familia) is slim, and I don't know about your relationship to the Church, what a proud dad you must be that he is choosing to serve others for two years."
My response would be as follows:
Wow, even after all these years you still are only capable of a douche bag communication. I'm sure that you don't intend to say the wrong thing, but somehow you always include something idiotic. That is the definition of a douche bag: Someone who is idiotic but doesn't realize it.
"I don't know about your relationship to the Church" suggests that I'm an apostate. What do you know about me after all these years? Why even mention that?
No, I'm not proud. I'm not proud that my son will pay his own way to promote a pedophile who forced two fourteen-year olds to "marry" him so he could have sex with them. Threatened with an angel holding a flaming sword and the damnation of their families if they didn't comply. And, by the way, don't tell Emma.
Does this make sense? Even the LDS church acknowledged these things. Finally, after how many years of denials. And the Church even admitted that these were marriages were "generally including the possibility of sexual relations." Oh, convenient. The Church says that sex was not out of the question. I'm pretty sure JS took his liberties.
Look into a hat at a stone to translate the Book of Mormon. Not the pretty paintings of JS reading the golden plates through inspiration...yet after all these years the Church has finally admitted that this is what really happened. Does this sound crazy to you yet?
Four or five different versions of the first vision? Some common elements, but some VERY different things changed or inserted in the narrative. Why so many different versions? So what really happened? Was it one or two personages? Yeah, big difference. But I bet you didn't know.
The fraud doesn't stop there. The Book of Abraham, presumed to be translated from ancient papyri...yet scholars who actually understand what it means say that the translation isn't accurate. It's not even close. And definitely not written by Abraham. It's a common Egyptian funeral script. Doesn't stop the LDS church from claiming, "Well, it inspired Joseph Smith to give revelation."
Nothing that contradicts the LDS faith is acceptable. All criticisms are "anti" and should be ignored. Doesn't that sound like a cult?
Which leads me to "..what a proud dad you must be..." Really? Why? He's going to shill a fake religion and try to steer others from their own beliefs, when every Mormon won't take a minute to listen to another person's beliefs because it could harm them? Talk with them about your beliefs but can't stand to hear theirs.
They tell you what underwear to put on, mimic Masonic rituals, ask you questions about masturbation in your teens, and require you to pay money to go to the temple. Their corporation doesn't require inspiration or revelation to determine the next prophet, the seniority of the apostle does. When was the last time a prophet had a revelation?
Stay in your cult. That's what it is. By every definition. But you are clearly too stupid to accept it. Doesn't surprise me. And at the very least don't contact me with your insipid messages.
Edited 7 time(s). Last edit at 08/10/2017 03:30AM by txrancher.