Rubicon Wrote:
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> The Book of Mormon no longer converts people to
> the church. If it's not doing that it's not
> serving a real purpose.
that deal when the anchor prop for your religion scam becomes more of a distraction than an asset
> It really is nothing more
> than biblical rehash. Ok. Christ visited America.
So Mr. busy resurrected body goes globe hopping to show off after He raises Himself from the dead. .......THEN the divine bastard goes AWOL for 2000 years, except to speak to Joseph Smith about starting ANOTHER Christian/ quasi Christian church ....and to make sure that Joe marries/screws every available female around ....even though Joe does not really want to (EYE ROLL!).
That kind of behavior by Jesus displays a marked detachment and disinterest and even dislike for doing His job and for being the kind of unconditionally loving minister that Jesus is supposed to be. In traditional Christianity, Jesus being physically absent from His ministry for over 2000 years is bad enough. It demonstrates a nasty vicious disregard for those Jesus is supposed to care about and minister to as His followers.
The MORmON version of things where Jesus is hyper ambitious enough to quickly tour American along with all the other highly important resurrection type stuff that He has going on, before going totally AWOL just accentuates the degree of subsequent disregard that MORmON Jesus has toward His messianic ministry, His followers, and actually doing His job.
....it is almost like MORmONISM is a mockery of Christianity!!!
> Well the Yogi Manda's believe Christ visited
> India.
>
> The Book of Mormon brought people into the church
> when America was viewed as the magical land where
> anything can happen.
>Those days are over.
Along with Exponential growth for MORmONISM ....or any real growth for LD$ inc's Book of MORmON scam, along with the MORmON dream of MORmONISM taking over the world, regardless of how the power gluttons at LD$ inc cling to it !
> President Nelson has even said church growth has
> shifted to South America and Africa. He knows
> it's not going to grow in the west anymore.
"the west" AKA the places where the internet service is a commodity .....GUESS WHAT !!! -it is just a matter of time until the internet is a fixture in South America and Africa too. TICK! TOCK! TICK! TOCK!
>
> The real interest in the church is retaining it's
> tithing paying members and you do that with the
> temple recommend. What makes more tithing money
> and keeps people in the church is temple weddings.
That's the advanced end of the MORmON scam. It was something reserved for only the very best and most devout MORmONS.
That is wildly discounting LD$ Inc's easily observable predatory desire and willingness to shake down lots and lots of more casual MORmON members each for a few dollars along the way to add up to a lot of money .....but that is NOT working so well either !!! So the emphasis does go back to more fully stinging the more devout MORmON members who are more willing ( STUPID ENOUGH) to be sucked dry by MORmON causes.
> It's pretty demeaning to be the member of the
> family who can't attend the temple wedding of a
> relative. Most members don't want to be that
> person. So many jump through the hoops to get and
> keep a recommend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i4HC3rZiDoFor those who are still STUPID enough to want to be in the MORmON dog and pony show social club, salvaging/ preserving one's MORmON image is nice, but at what cost ?????? How many thousands of dollars to maintain that good MORmON member image???? There is also a huge amount of embarrassment in being BROKE !!!! by being cleaned out by LD$ Inc again !!!!
More and more, MORmON members simply can not afford being temple worthy, EVEN if they want to.
> Temples are what the church is focusing on.
Things are to the point where it does NOT matter so much what THE (MORmON) church wants to focus on, because LD$ Inc has lost control of its own MORmON message. It is what potential members and potential contributors/offering payers are focusing on that really matters. The thing those potential donor people are focusing on, because they have to, is that STUPID secret and even unmentionable (WORTHLESS!!!!) temple handshakes that have ZERO real efficacy are NOT really worth 10 percent of a person's gross income.
> The
> Book of Mormon is just kind of there. Sure the
> church still puts a big focus on it but that might
> start to be replaced with a general focus on Jesus
> and eternal marriage and eternal families.
LD$ Inc is SCREWED either way !!!!!!!
The Book of MORmON and MORmON temple worship are two major things that make MORmONISM unique and set apart MORmONISM from other Christian denominations. IF MORmONISM does away with those things then it loses it's MORmON identity that MORmONISM needs to stand out from other Christian churches.
Emphasizing those things brings scrutiny to those things, scrutiny that they can not stand up to.
The (IDIOTIC) Book of MORmON can NOT with stand any real scrutiny. MORmONS love Love LOVE to endlessly blabber away about how important their temples are to preserving family association, But then MORmONS have to instantly clam up when it comes to the actual details (STUPID Secret Handshakes and chants) that outsiders are NATURALLY compelled to wonder about after incessant MORmON gushing on the superlative splendor of the MORmON temple.
The thing is: The MORmON temple ceremony is now available on the internet. IF I had that advantage when I was teenager, (40 years ago), after seeing that Hokey MORmON BS for myself prior to being subjected to it, and having a little more suitable time to reconcile myself to the situation, Then I would have left MORmONISM at age 18 instead of being blindsided by the HORRIBLE MORmON temple ceremony and then going on a FOOL time mission at age 19.
> Magic America doesn't sell anymore and so the Book
> of Mormon is just a book a Broadway play that
> mocks the church is named after. Nelson badly
> wants to get rid of the word Mormon.
Nelson might as well wish to have his head amputated too.
> No better
> way than to take the focus off the Book of Mormon
.......than to have the MORmON religion implode !!!!!