Posted by:
cludgie
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Date: October 24, 2018 01:57AM
Mormons now do two things that disqualify them for true Christianity, whatever the hell that is. For one, they're all about ritual and obedience and obedience to the ritual. All the temple-going and drool-inducing worship services are now all they know. They believe that works will save them, but their "works" amount to nothing at all.
The other thing is their constant need for praise, always taking photos of themselves helping while wearing their yellow smocks, and then putting it all in the Church News to make other Mormons feel all soft and squidgy about their religion. I don't believe in the New Testament, but sort of respect the Christian teachings, and it bothers me to see the missionaries blatantly go against the teachings of Paul et al.
Remember after the hurricane in Haiti, a handful of BYU students rushed in and hammered together a couple of shacks as the Church News photographer shot pictures of it. Everyone was surprised when they up and left after a couple of days' worth of good pics, never to return. I wasn't surprised.
When I lived in Congo, the church sent over a gaggle of doctors who conducted a two-week neonatal thing, then handed out stethoscopes to everyone. That was okay, but the stupid Church News photographer was hovering around taking pictures for the rag. Usually, the church does very little other than proselyting among the desperately poor, before telling them them to pay tithing. The missionaries are aware of how bad this looks, so occasionally they will put on a show by trying to participate in some initiative with the Baptist and Adventist missionaries and other charities to show that they're in the game, too. You know... Like good Christians.
So one time, some charity was going to go into the bush to vaccinate villagers. The Mormons wanted in, and the other participants reluctantly said okay. They are often reluctant because they view the Mormons as generally unqualified. The other missionaries speak Lingala, or at least French, and the Mormons don't bother to learn a language. The other missionaries consist of doctors and other medical personnel, and teachers; the Mormons are retired accountants, attorneys, software developers, and in one weird case, a truck driver. So sometime in late 2007 or early 2008, the church sent over a couple whom I actually happened to know (a retired accountant and his wife), to go into the bush with the others. But the LDS couple dawdled and showed up late, thinking that the others would surely wait for them. But when the Mormons didn't show at the appointed time, the others just proceeded into the bush without them. The Mormons were burned over it, having lost their chance to get some good photo ops. They spent a few days in Kinshasa, before flying back. It is kinda funny to watch, or entertaining, at least. But the church doesn't care much. It's not costing them anything, because the missionaries are paying their own way. But it's awfully disappointing to the neo-Pharisees when they don't get their photo ops for doing nothing.
I've said too much. Sorry.