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Mormons Have Irrational Beliefs? Who Doesn't?

Dreadnaught011 Wrote: Jun 29, 2012 7:45 PM

After 1625 posts; there's little more to say, Rich is exposed; he's a small-time diminutive Thumper of no immediate challenge to the Catholic church. He's labored like that great mountain of French literature. Groaning, huffing and puffing; strained to the end of his chain; all these days; Giving birth at long last, to a MOUSE. That's his offering here.

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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...