why do people think Mormons are poligamists? or unchristian? or have horns in their heads?
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Because it is always more fun to pass on misinformation.  Also in the religious arena we tend to vilify people who believe different than we do.  Don't you find it odd that nearly every religion teaches that they are the only true religion and that all others are false - "run or founded, by the devil".  I am of the influence that all good things come from God.  Besides I cannot think of a heaven where Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King, or Billy Graham weren't present.
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They sound like a Christian to me.  I've never met one who follows the teachings of Christ. Intead they follow the politics of their "religion" usually to the compleat exclusion of the teachings of Christ.
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Mormons are Christians, first of all.  According to the teachings of the church, we must follow Christ and accept Him as our Savior.  They pray in the name of Christ, and perform all church ordinances in the name of Christ.  They sing hymns about Christ.  Christ is considered to be the Head of the church.  Yes, they believe Christ also visited the American continent after His death.  Yes, they believe that Jesus is the Son of God, and that God the Father and Jesus Christ are two separate beings, yet one in purpose.  And they believe that God continues to reveal His word to man through living prophets.  But how do these doctrines make them non-Christian?\n\nMormons study from the Bible just as much as they do from the Book of Mormon.  In fact, the curriculum for Sunday School lessons this year is the Old Testament.\n\nIf the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints only pretended that they believed in Christ, then why would people stay in the church after getting baptized?  Why would the church keep growing at such a tremendous rate if its members only pretended to believe in Christ in order to attract more converts?  More than two-thirds of its baptisms every year are convert baptisms.  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the fastest growing religion of North and South America.  Joseph Smith, at a time when the church only had six members, prophesied that the church would fill North and South America, and eventually the whole world.  Brigham Young prophesied that the earth would be dotted with hundreds of temples, at a time when they were just beginning to be built.  We are seeing these prophesies fulfilled before our own eyes.\n\nSo many people have been deceived by a pack of liars, who say the Mormons aren't Christian, and consider the Mormon religion to be one of the most evil on the planet.  Christ said "Ye shall know them by their fruits."
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Mormons are Christians\n\nThey believe in Jesus, what else consitutes being a Christian?
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The diferences between Mormons and Christians/Baptists are so many and so great that mainline Christians almost universally consider Mormons to be unsaved cult members and not Christians.\n\nFor one thing, Mormons do not consider Jesus to be God. A Christian believes in the Trinity-God being made up of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.\n\nMormons consider Jesus to be a brother of satan and merely a man. Christians believe that Jesus is also God. Christians believe that one cannot deny the Jesus of the Bible and be saved. \n\nMormons believe that God was once a man and later became God. They believe that God has a number of heavenly wives and that God lives near a star called Kolob. They believe that Jesus was conceived by God coming to earth as a man and having phsyical relations with the virgin Mary. Christians believe that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit and that Mary was still a virgin at his birth.\n\nMormons believe everyone has two sets of parents-spiritual parents and earthly parents. They believe they are first born as spirits and then sit around until a couple on earth conceives a baby and then they are assigned a body. Mormons have a lot of children because their church has told them that there are a surplus of spirit babies waiting for earthly bodies, so it is the church members responsibility to provide them. \n\nThe men of the Mormon church in the 1800s were encouraged to take multiple wives so they could create a lot of eartly babies for these spirit babies. Many times women were strong-armed into accepting additional wives into their families because they were told by their husband and the church leaders that they wouldn't get into heaven if they disagreed. \n\nYoung women who might not want to marry an old guy with several wives already were also told that they wouldn't get into heaven if they didn't marry some old geezer they didn't like.\n\nUpon marrying women were given a new spiritual name and so were their husbands. The men would know the woman's name but not vica versa. This was so the man could supposedly call his wife into heaven someday. It was also kind of hung over her head that she had to be obedient or her husband wouldn't call her into heaven.\n\nIt is my understanding that until recently the Mormon church in some of its special ceremonies had participants pretend to cut their throats or tear out their organs if they would leave the church. \n\n\nMormons actually believe that they will each become gods someday and rule heavens. Christians believe that men are men, that men do not become gods. Christians do not have this strange spiritual belief and pride that Mormons do.\n\n Mormons believe in heavenly marriages. Jesus taught that marriages are just while people are on earth. Mormons perform "eternal" marriages in their temples in the belief that in the afterlife when they think they are gods and godesses that they can make lots of spirit babies which in turn will be sent to earth to some human couple who conceives.\n\nMormons believe in baptizing the dead into their church, so frequent baptisms are held in their temple for ancestors of Mormons who they believe may not have been baptized into the Mormon church. They have also taken upon themselves to baptized most dead US presidents as well as a number of Jewish holocaust victims, until a number of those of the Jewish faith complained. \n\nThis is why Mormons are so interested in genealogy. They want to marry and baptize all these dead people.\n\nMormons believe in a three tiered heaven-a telestial, terrestial, and celestial heaven. They believe that only married Mormons can attain their highest level of heaven (celestial), so single Mormons are always encouraged to look attractive and find a mate so they can make the highest level. \n\nChristians believe in one heaven, not a multi-tiered one. Christians don't believe being married has any affect on their status in heaven.\n\nTo get into a Mormon temple to b
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The Mormon Church is God's favorite Christian church. It's his favorite because Mormons are required to think, participate in their own churches, have rules to follow, rituals to perform if you violate the rules so  you can repent. and Mormons offer actual, realistic explanations.\n\nUnlike the other mindless zombie churches that require nothing more than showing up on Sunday with a few dollars to give the blowhard spouting off about his opinions of what God "really said."\n\nAnd, if Christianity isn't your cup of tea, Islam is his favorite.\n\nFor the same basic reasons.\n\nI am an atheist and unofficial, self-appointed religion critic.\n\nMormons & Muslims get two thumbs up.\n\nModern day Judaism isn't a religion, it is a criminal enterprise. There are some "real Jews," but most people wouldn't qualify for membership, so they are unrated.
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As near as I've been able to tell there are some that are very open minded while maintaining their belief and tenants of Faith. Zealots on the other hand aren't interested in the opinions of the Person sitting beside them in their own church, they seem completely self absorbed. I've listened to them chastise each other for not being holy enough and that's the Mad leading the Insane as near as I can tell. Those type of Zealot Christians are just totally screwed in the head, every single one of them spits in the Face of God!
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I believe you to be true in what your saying.\nYou seem to me like a christian. I find demons to be in mormons. I find them to stick together like a cult group as well. They have hard time figuring out what is real and what is correct. Have you noticed that non member is always corrected even when you join "you get corrected".\nLike that other girl said For some reason like other post of yours you seem to know alot about mormons. \nTalking to the mormon lady who spoke up  well so what if he does! Do you want convert him cause you lose people more and more everyday! Wake up silly mormon tricks are from  the \ndevil not from God. Real christians know that mormons dont live the way God says in the bible. Real christians know that mormons have to have there way. Real christians also know you dont go by a cross you go by a spare that sticks straight up. Nothing you can say can change a christ follower thats "christ", no one else shall i follow, but christ. As a christian follows a true christian knows they can not do works to get there self in to heaven. By the way there is only one heaven and one hell. Sorry that i had to be the one to tell you the true truth.
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"Because they believed not the word of God as truth, for this cause shall God send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie."  Mormonism is fallacy, strong delusion to those who do not want to follow the true Messaiah. If Mormons would read the true word of God and not blindly follow false proplhets (Prophedts of Baal) they would understand why the Word says that "turning aside from the Truth, they have turned to fables."\n"-Help stamp out ignorance. Read your Bible"
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horns must not be a symbol of evil, because the ram's horn (called a shofar) is blown on one of the holiest days of the Jewish year, and it is certainly not considered evil in that context.\n\nBut I think the issue here is that you would most likely freak people out if you went about with corral horns on your head.  I don't think God would really be all too thrilled about you freaking others out!
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Mormons believe that the "true" religion of christ was lost from the earth shortly after christ died.  This "true" christianity was then restored through their first prophet, Joseph Smith, in 1830 when god and jesus appeared to him and told him he had been chosen to restore the true church to the earth.  He also was visited by Moroni, supposedly a prophet from a lost race of ancient americans, who told him where to find golden plates on which was written the spiritual history of his people, similar to the bible but with all of the events taking place in ancient America.  The book he "translated" from these plates became the book of Mormon (Mormon was one of the ancient American prophets), and tells their history as well as the story of Jesus visiting the faithful in America after his resurrection.\nThey believe "as man now is, god once was...and as god now is, man may become" -- meaning that god was once a guy on a planet like us, he did good, achieved eternal life, and was given this earth to rule.  They believe that each of us can do the same, after our lives are over if we're righteous we can get our own world to create/rule over, populate with spirit children, etc.  You get to be a god!\nThey have secret rituals that are done in their temples that are derivatives of Masonic rituals, secret underwear that reminds them of the rituals done in the temples and which are supposed to protect them from harm, still hold plural marriage (polygamy) as a tenet of their religion although it's currently not practiced officially by church members.  They are adamant about collecting 10% tithing (you have to "settle" with your local church every year, showing your tax return and proving you paid your 10% to be considered a faithful member).  They're big on missionary work and getting new members, sending thousands of missionaries to every country in the world they can every year.  They believe they can do "sacraments" (baptism, temple marriages, etc.) for their relatives who have passed away and never had a chance to join the Mormon church, which will give them the chance to accept it in the afterlife.  There are other differences, but that's the gist of it :)\n\nI'm a former Mormon who did a 2-year missionary stint, and know the temple routines very well.  Send me an e-mail or IM if you want to know more.
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OK, I'm a Mormon (convert of ten years) and am amazed at the level of ignorance shown here. Here's how it really is:\n\nWe DO NOT believe that God had sex with Mary. (Pernicious falsehood started by anti-Mormons)\n\nWe DO believe "that Jesus is Lord and that He died on the cross and he rose from the dead on the third day". [c.f. "Jesus_is_awesome"]\n\nWe believe that Jesus and satan are spirit brothers ONLY IN THE SENSE that everyone and everything, even satan, are created by God. People created by the same father are brothers.\n\nWe DO believe in salvation by grace, and we DO NOT believe that our good works save us. However, when we confess faith in Jesus Christ we promise to follow him. "If ye love me, keep my commandments". Our works are what show that He is Lord of our lives. If we deliberately fail to live according to his will we cannot really have meant that prayer. (But we know we can repent when we make a mistake.)\n\nI recently asked "What must I do to be saved?" I had 33 answrs, all of which said something along the lines of "Accept Jesus Christ and repent of your sins." I have done that, therefore I am saved and going to heaven. I also happen to be a Mormon.
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Any faith system that claims that Lucifer is Jesus' "spiritual brother", as Mormonism does, is not Christian. As far as I am concerned, to put Jesus Christ, Lord over all, on the same level as Lucifer, a fallen angel, is heresy.\n\nSo I stand by the former.
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Ummm, Mormons believe in Jesus.  They just believe in more than Jesus.
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I agree with you. Some people have weak minds, and need religion to support them. For some of these people, it's a benefit, for others, a mental parasite. Some people have strong minds yet still hold religious notins dearly. That's the way things are.\n\nI have neither. I am an atheist and a satanist, so I am just giving my outsider's observations.
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that they can become gods . have sputural children and have there own planet .wifes . and my ex, brother in law was a mormon . ever see those silly underwear that they wear. looks very silly. being sealed in there temples for all time ref. www. mormonnomore. no masnknows my history. ?
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I am glad there is someone else out there questioning the manmade mythological figure as well as the socially constructed theologies or religious politics, I was raised in a catholic environment and decided based on the hypocrisy and stupidity that there was no god at the age of five,but only told my dad,my mom and her mom dragged us to church almost everyday and on the weekends where we were forced to witness a bunch of ignorant hypocrites who drank,beat their wives and children,whose sons were in prison for raping and murdering,daughters who have illegitimate children or are molested by a family member it is the same typical congregation anywhere you go, everyone goes to the meat market looking for a date,ready to punish and condemn other people for their mistakes or flaws while pretending to have none themselves,and pay (donate money) to listen to some stranger talk about something he does not believe in or follow himself (it is rare to find a sincere minister and you can tell that because when people find out one exists only his mass becomes a standing room only event and people come from all over to hear him)\nthe Jehovah witnesses were the most intolerant as children we were scared of them and we would run inside ,turn off the tv and play quietly pretending not to be home,when they came walking down the street with their watch tower magazines trying to convert everyone and prepared to argue with you for hours with your own bible if you give them a chance to,they rejected and disowned their own children and family members for their cult and we felt sorry for their kids and wanted nothing to do with their selfish god who seemed worse than our catholic one ,only the exdrug addict /alcoholic - former convict born again christians could match the persistence and brainwashed mentality of the witnesses, it's like their new addiction was jesus and they had to praise every other damn word out of your mouth it is sickening(remember these were observations of a child)as children we saw through all the crap that adults hide behind ,so they dont have to deal with what they dont understand, and watched them practice predjudice,bigoted behavior,heard their ugly intolerant words as they punish others for the same sins they commit themselves in private,I wonder happened to some of my peers and how they ended up becoming part of this virus of society, \nwhat bothers me most is the comments and questions that demonstrate many supposed christians dont know what the hell they are talking about - they miss the whole point or dont understand and apply their own supposed values to themselves but hold the world to their personal standards ,they all insist jesus came from a virgin (god forbid that vagina ever had a penis in it or an orgasm)but dont seem to understand or care about the significance of the heretic christs story or parable, either the whole lesson went over their head or they are stupid hypocrites that dont understand a blind man can smell their bs\nas an adult I am still learning about other religions and I see alot of ugly things people do to cause suffering in the name of god and alot less good coming from religion which seems to serve evil more than anything else\nI have seen men die afraid,sad,and alone knowing that they are somehow treated as subhuman and regarded with hatred by their own parents for being gay and having aids. \nsecond only to protesting at funerals this is one of the most vile unforgivable christian acts ,I have witnessed\nand if I were wrong and there is actually a special hell for those that believe in hell ,then I would gladly go there and wait for all those parents who did that to the children they brought into this world and pull their souls in after there bodies died and give satan a break while I did his work for them on their souls\nand no I am not a gay man,just a human female that cares about humans despite their assigned social statuses and labels\nif you have read any of my previous answers yo