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Mormons Have Irrational Beliefs? Who Doesn't?

Reginald10 Wrote: Jun 19, 2012 10:22 PM

Not all taxation is theft. If you join a club, which has dues, then you've agreed to pay them when you joined the club. If you have agreed to pay taxes, by being a citizen of your country (state, municipality), then it's not theft. It's paying your dues. If you don't like it, give up your membership / citizenship, and move elsewhere.

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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...