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Mormons Have Irrational Beliefs? Who Doesn't?

Darren70 Wrote: Jun 20, 2012 11:51 PM

"It's also a very bad sign; if you're hated everywhere you go, to measure a monster against Jesus Christ, who is the Son of God. Joseph Smith is no Savior or Son of God, Darren. " The monster you reference createdan organization which is one of the most chritable on earth, does good to others, and is reknowned for forming strong families. that's its fruits. The Book of Mormon testifies of Christ's divinity and also to fbring forth good works in Christ's name. It stands along side the Bible as a divine witness of our LORD and Savior.

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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.

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