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Mormons Have Irrational Beliefs? Who Doesn't?

Darren70 Wrote: Jun 20, 2012 9:05 PM

"But staunch faith in somebody else's fraudulent stories and evil character is of no spiritual use to anyone." This is my main contention: you declare your opinion/interpetation of Joseph Smith and the LDS faith as if it were absolute fact. I do not expect you or anyone else to agree with what I believe. Simply not agreeing is not the same as outright attacking and doing so foundlessly. You beling to a great faith. One which the entire world should express a debt of gratitude for preserving the word of God throughout many generations. (con't)

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Mormons Have Irrational Beliefs? Who Doesn't?

Commentators on both the right and left and both secular and religious note with disdain that Mormons (Latter Day Saints, as Mormons refer to themselves) have irrational practices and beliefs. The former, we are told, includes the wearing of sacred undergarments and the latter includes posthumous baptisms and the claims by the prophet of Mormonism to have found and deciphered engraved golden plates in New York State.

I read and hear these dismissals of Mormonism with some amusement -- because everyone who makes these charges holds beliefs and/or practices that outsiders consider just as irrational.

Let's begin with the religious critics.

There doesn't exist...