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"McCraney-ism"


by Jason Wallace



Many former Mormons have escaped the institution, but not the mindset of Mormonism. All their lives, they have been fed stories of how bad other churches are. Protestant pastors have been caricatured at the Mormon Miracle Pageant and in endless stories they have heard from their youth. After years of being told all other churches are wrong, many LDS simply add Mormonism to the list of false churches and embrace atheism. They abandon the claims of the LDS church to truth, but they blindly accept all its criticisms of the Bible and other churches as true. They breathe out contempt for Christianity with the old fervor of Brigham Young and Parley Pratt.



Though the vast majority of those who abandon Mormonism try to convince themselves there is no God, some recognize that they cannot escape His reality. They see the foolishness of an atheism that pretends to find meaning and value in a world devoid of purpose. They instead read the Bible and see an explanation for the world before them. Man is capable of greatness and perversity - - Bach and Hitler, DaVinci and Stalin. They discover that the world was created good, but it has been corrupted through sin.



In that same Bible, they find the one who has come to undo the Fall of man and reconcile sinful men to a holy God - - Jesus Christ. They hear His words and recognize their truth. The problem is that all too often, they do not recognize that they still carry with them the prejudices that were inculcated in them from youth. They view the Bible, Jesus, and His church through “Mormon glasses.” It is into this confusion that Shawn McCraney has stepped. He has been the instrument of helping many people see the errors of Mormonism, but in its place he is teaching a Jesus who plays to these prejudices, but is not the Jesus of the Bible.

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(The rest of the content edited out due to board rule against posting entire articles (due to copyright and space) but also because it is preachy. If someone wants to read it they can click on the link.)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/14/2019 12:27PM by maude.

Nicely done.

"I will recalculate..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QMQ9wUkeck

anybody Wrote:
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> "I will recalculate..."
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QMQ9wUkeck


That is hilarious; I love these old crappy movies, like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyMae8ykcgo, and I did not immediately see the resemblance.

Strawman alert !!!
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"Though the vast majority of those who abandon Mormonism try to convince themselves there is no God, some recognize that they cannot escape His reality. They see the foolishness of an atheism that pretends to find meaning and value in a world devoid of purpose. They instead read the Bible and see an explanation for the world before them. Man is capable of greatness and perversity - - Bach and Hitler, DaVinci and Stalin. They discover that the world was created good, but it has been corrupted through sin."