Bylimet Spiritwalker

I got a call from my mother last night, and she was asking what all these "I'm a Mormon" commercials were all about. My take on it is Mitt Romney and friends are wanting to change the attitudes of folks prior to the next presidential election.

There sure are an awful lot of them, meaning an awful large chunk of change being spent on the campaign.

Any other thoughts?

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Jensae1

Havent seen it. Is it a regional thing?

Malse

Not sure if it's specifically Romney but those are definitely politically motivated, trying to cover up just how crazy those people are even by the standards of the lunatic evangelicals.

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Elemak the Enchanter

Wow Malse, just when I thought you were done saying completely retarded things you go and surprise me

I haven't seen any yet, but I'm guessing it's more of a "hey we're not a bunch of whackadoodles"

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Malse

So, you're conjecturing that the equivalent of 1820s scientologists, who believe that some guy found gold plates that only he could read, detailing how jesus was an alien, and he and the indians, who were lost isrealites, fought evil thousands of years ago, and now operate one of the richest cults in the US, doing such totally normal things like baptizing famous dead people into their religion, are somehow not dangerously insane? Particularly given they've been turning their wealth towards political action on an increasing basis for the the last decade or so?

Or are you just objecting to them paying to do damage control because other religious zealots have had it in for them since the beginning?

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I saw innumerable hosts, foredoomed to darkness, dirt, pestilence, obscenity, misery and early death.
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velvetsilence

Is it the mormons or the JW's that maintain the belief 99.99% of the slots in heaven available are already filled and that the rest of us fighting for the 6 remaining slots?

Korlis

jw believe 100% of the slots are filled but that after the tribulation all those that have died will be ressurected to live on earth in peace for a millenia or something like that.

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Cloudwalker21

If you're interested in reading about Mormons (and their purported crazy), I'd check out Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer. Interesting read about the murder of Brenda Lafferty and her daughter, along with the fact that there are two 'churches' that exist in Mormon faith, the fundamentalists (hyper-crazies) and the regular garden variety. Mormons don't scare me nearly as much as the scientologists do, who have such interesting rituals as harassing and beating their members and intimidating city officials to get what they want. Maybe I just haven't heard those stories much.

Though to be fair, both of them put together don't scare me nearly as much as Calvinists did, because when you already are going to heaven or hell, who cares what you do? You're already going somewhere regardless of your actions.

Cados Evilsbane

@Malse - Before you go gallavanting about how crazy/terrible we members of the LDS church are, why don't you try meeting some in real life... you probably know quite a few, at least if you're at all acquainted with regular, upstanding people.

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Cloudwalker21

Cados, out of curiosity (since I take it from your post that you are Mormon), is there a recognized divide in the church between fundamentalists and...non-fundamentalists? I got the impression from the book I mentioned that there was a group of perfectly sane people (who called themselves the Latter Day Saints) that called themselves Mormon, and then the murderous, polygamist "Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints", which is what most people associate with Mormonism.