Who has something POSITIVE to say about Mormons?
402273
Yeah... I don't believe what they do...but if you want a great neighbor... Mormons are the best!  Mormon families are usually good people to get to know.... they live good lives, and are good citizens (there's always and exception to the rule).... they are peaceful, and very family oriented.
922935
It really depends on where you go as to what kind of experience you're going to get.\n\nI'm Pagan, but I attend church with my Mormon parents-in-law when I visit them in Virginia, but I've never heard a single word uttered about Joseph Smith, and I've heard many about Jesus.\n\nThere are many little differences, but essentially Mormonism and other Christian faiths are the same.\n\nOne difference is that Mormons don't believe in the Trinity - they believe that the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are three separate entities instead of three aspects of one entity. And, if you do your research, you'll find that the idea of a Triune god is actually a Pagan ideal - one of many stolen by Christianity in it's earlier years.\n\nThey also have more respect for others' beliefs and their right to have them. They do evangelize during 2-year long missions (which are optional), but they do not push the issue if they are told that someone is not interested (at least, they're not supposed to).\n\nThey believe in three different "layers" of Heaven: Celestial (the best/top), Terrestrial, and Telestial (the bottom/worst). They also believe in Hell, but they believe that Hell is only reserved for those of truly unforgivable evil. Even if you are not Mormon, so long as you have lived a reasonably good life, they believe that you can still go to Heaven, however you cannot reach the Celestial level unless you follow every commandment, are married in the Temple, etc. The Celestial level is where it is believed that God and Jesus themselves reside.\n\nThey are also the only denomination that uses additional scripture in conjunction with the Bible. They do not favor it over the Bible as many believe (not all of them, anyway), but they do have three extra books that they regard as scripture: The Book of Mormon (for which they are nicknamed), Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price.\n\nThey also believe in one additional prophet, which no other Christian Church acknowledges: Joseph Smith.\n\nLast, but not least, they believe that as "man was created in God's image," God was once a man Himself, under the rule of another god when He was human. I don't fully understand the conditions, but I know that it is believed that under certain circumstances, you can reach godly status after you die, and are given the power to create and control a planet as God created and controls this one.\n\nTo my understanding, these are the most prominent differences between LDS faith and other Christian faiths.
1179233
Jesus said to love one another, but I have yet to meet a JW who has not criticized my own beliefs when coming to my door. Its not a case of not liking JW's but when they have come to my door, instead of accepted my own beliefs and wishing me well they decide to attack. They instigate this attack not me. I accept the views of others who knock on my door and respect that they are doing work according to their beliefs but I won't accept behaviour in this way. Maybe I have been unfortunate with the JW's who have come to my door in that they may have be over zealous in their approach but I have never had a problem with the Mormons. They knock. We chat and we wish each other well on our respective journeys. That is how it should be with two people who feel equally proud of their own beliefs.\n\nI hope this is respectful enough without declaring myself as a true Christian above all other denominations etc etc.
447521
They are good people with good intentions.
788716
People used to ask me those questions all the time too and it was so annoying. No I'm not Mormon and no my dad ( who lives in Maryland) doesn't have a billion wives. He has one and no it's not my mom. And no, I'm not Catholic. I wanted to wear a sign so people would stop looking at me like a circus freak. People even ask in Utah are you Mormon, well then what are you. I'm human thanks! I think people do think that Mormon's are the only people there, it's just ignorance, don't let it get to you. But I sympathize.
362569
No not at all....I'm thankful I have a religion a faith the opportunity to believe, and regardless of what religion a person may be someone is always going to put "their two cents" in on it...Believe in what's right for you...no one can do this for you....and I feel you shouldn't put others beliefs down either..Think about it my parents were raised catholic...so of course me and my siblings were all raised catholic...if they happened to be Mormon than we would be Mormon...like I said before believe in what's right for you as a person, to me God can tell the difference of people sincerity regardless of "what religion you may be" or "which religion you think is right"....
292016
While the Mormon people seem to have great family values, if you do research on the founder of the Mormon faith, he was a con that had an arrest record.  His story of finding the tablets doesn't hold up either.  Check out these websites.\nhttp://www.padfield.com/2005/mormon-comparisons.html\nhttp://www.informationgospel.net/mormonism.htm
273046
I've been LDS for 47 years and the teachings of the Gospel of Jesus Christ have helped our marriage to remain strong for 26 years; I've raised five outstanding sons, none of whom drink, none of whom smoke, none of whom take drugs, none of whom have joined gangs, none of whom feel the need for tattoos, piercings, weird hair styles, or rebellious behavior.  Four of my sons have chosen to serve full-time missions in various places throughout the world (my youngest is only 15,) my two married sons (the others are too young) were both married in the San Diego Temple to lovely, moral, pure young ladies, and they live respectable, moral, upstanding lives today with their young families.  All thanks to the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  Jesus taught that by judging its fruits you can determine the value or validity of the tree.  The fruits of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints are so highly prized, logical, down to earth, and helpful that there can be no serious question by any spiritually-aware person about its divinity.  Be careful on this site because people will drum up some obscure statement by a member of the church spoken 140 years ago or a practice that has been irrelevant for 110 years and they ignore all the fruits of the church today.  Don't pay them any mind.  Others are ex-Latter-Day Saints who generally leave the church because their own lives cannot be controlled to following the high standards of the church.  The generally have drinking or moral issues that they want to encorporate into their lives so they drop out of the Lord's church and then find a home among the Born Agains where they can live any type of sinful life they choose and still have the frim (but false) belief that they will somehow magically get into heaven regardless of their actions.  From someone who KNOWS I would encourage the step of entering the waters of baptism.  If the teachings of the LDS match your own beliefs then it is clear that you are a member of the House of Israel that the Elders have found and you will feel right at home living the high standards and receiving the rich rewards of LDS church membership.
344148
What bothers me most about Mormons are their false scriptures and false prophets. They have three false scripture-the book of Mormon, a Pearl of Great Price and Doctrines and Covenants. Starting with the founder Joseph Smith, Brigham Young and all their church presidents are false prohphets. What changes would I recommend. Throw out their scriptures, read their Bibles and forget about their prophets. \n\nA short summary for those not familiar with Mormonism\n\n\nThe Mormon church has some very unusual doctrines and beliefs and is considered to be a cult by most conventional Christian denominations.\n\nFor example, they believe their God has a number of heavenly wives. They believe God lives on a planet near a star names Kolob. They believe that they can become gods in the afterlife. They believe in a three tiered heaven which can only be reached through works including marriage to another mormon. Single Mormons can not reach this third level of their heaven. They believe their God used to be a man of flesh and bones and later became God. They believe God came down to earth as a man to impregnate the virgin Mary. \n\nThey believe Satan and Jesus are brothers. They believe everyone has two sets of parents-heavenly parents that create spirit babies and the earthly parents who create the bodies into which these supposed spirt babies go. The reason Mormons have so many children is that they believe that there are a surplus of spirit babies and so members are encouraged to have as many babies as possible to make a place for the spirit bodies to live.\n\nThey believe in marrying and baptizing all their dead relations into the Mormon church, hence the interest in geneology. They have also baptized most dead US presidents and a number of holocaust victims until they got quite a few complaints from members of the Jewish faith. \n\nThe church is very controlling and a person must pass an interview with a church official each year to get a temple recommend pass-this includes a promise of tithing, believing the prophets, work in the church, etc. \n\nThe mormon church was founded by Joseph Smith a local ne'r do well, who spent most of his time treasure hunting, and one day ta-dah he discovered supposedly gold plates from the angel Moroni in New York. The book of Mormon, as opposed to the Bible is historically and archeologically unsound. For example, Bethlehem and Jericho existed. Not so for the locations in the book of Mormon. Joseph Smith as a child made up lots of involved stories regarding Indians and other inhabitants of America. Not so surprisingly the same type of stories are in his book of Mormon, which he claimed came down on gold plates from God. According to Mormon doctrines dark skinned people were dark skinned because of a "curse" placed on them.
324255
I think most missionaries mean well and have noble intentions and empathy.  It is just unfortunate that these warm-hearted individuals have been brain-washed into believing that saving people from hell-fire (which doesn't really exist) is as noble a cause as saving them from disease or starvation.
1117556
Give me one example of anything in the Christian religion being good.
158480
My guess is that some Mormons are nice for the same reason that anyone is nice to anyone.  I'm a Mormon, and I'm nice to everyone, because I have been raised to be non-judgemental of other people, and I have been taught to love and respect other people.  It doesn't having anything to do with trying to get people to join the Church, or trying to be better than other people.  I simply geniunely respect and care for people, because of the way that I was raised, and so I am nice to people!
1008786
mormons again ? really
951050
Religious affiliation can be a positive when it provides a social support network for people that goes beyond immediate family.  This can be good if the group is truly caring of the other members and if their support is based on love rather than on judgement and criticism of others.\nReligion can also be positive if it creates a framework for behaviour that is beneficial to the fabric of society.  But this framework must be broad, flexible and inclusive in order to accommodate the diversity of the human experience.
652307
They believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost.\n\nThey believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam’s transgression.\n\nThey believe that through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.\n\nThey believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, Repentance; third, Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; fourth, Laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost.\n\nThey believe that a man must be called of God, by prophecy, and by the laying on of hands by those who are in authority, to preach• the Gospel and administer in the ordinances thereof.\n\nThey believe in the same organization that existed in the Primitive Church, namely, apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, and so forth.\n\nThey believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth.\n\nThey believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; They also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.\n\nThey believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.\n\nThey believe in the literal gathering of Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes; that Zion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon the American continent; that Christ will reign personally upon the earth; and, that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory.\n\nThey claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.\n\nTHey believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in cobeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.\n\nThey believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, They may say that they follow the admonition of Paul— They believe all things, they hope all things, they have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, they seek after these things.
990539
there are some good people in this world\ngo to a church and they will be more than happy to help
235609
Of course they should be able to.  Latter-Day Saints have cartoons crawn about them all the time in various publications, we don't go running into the street tipping over cars, setting fires, and demanding blood to avenge our wrong.  We simply get over it and move on.  We are too busy raising our families, trying to obey the law, earning a living, and helping others.  Everyone has the freedom to express themselves any way they wish, what someone says about someone else reveals much more about the accusor than it ever says about the accused.  We have false things said about us (the LDS) all the time, it doesn't make them true, it simply reveals the misunderstandings or intentional dishonesty of those who say them.  Who cares?