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Mormons Have Irrational Beliefs? Who Doesn't?

Darren70 Wrote: Jun 21, 2012 12:00 AM

You repeat the claim that Joseph Smith wasa sex addict. You cite nothing to support you claim. i can easily call you a child molster, rapist, adulterer, etc. but without evidence that would hardly be ethical and it most assuredly is not Christian. I think you've used up enough of my time, sir. Your posts are meaningless and consider your pst flagged as offensive. I do hope action is taken against you for I do not care to associate myself with any blog that may support unsubstantiated claims of sexual improprieties against anyone.

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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...