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Originally Posted by Looger
if christianity in general had no provable history and was 'read out of a hat' as it were, it wouldn't lead me to be any more or less scared of pat robertson and the christian coalition, who advocate a blank cheque for israel to bring aboot the end-times.
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The reason Mormonism creation is so critized is because it is so new and is in the age of printing machines and accurate historical records. I am sure Christianity went through the same thing, but now lots of the knowledge of the phrophet/saviour is lost. Unlike Joesph Smith which writings of him still survive today, who is known to have had a hundred children some of them from wives that were 14 years old. Anways. Christians that are for stronger nuclear armament just baffels my mind.
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actions speak louder, and the majority of mormons you run across are incredibly nice and don't organize political movements to end the ****ing world. would they if they were a majority? i guess that's possible, as political movements typically infiltrate religious institutions and twist them to their will.
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Oh, I agree mormons are typically terribly nice people. Basically why they don't push the armageddon stuff is because of their outlook. My understanding is that they have the frame of mind that "we're right and going to heaven. Everyone is wrong and going to hell and it's their fault for not seeing the light, not our wrong for not showing it to them."
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i was at london drugs a couple weekends ago helping my buddy buy a microwave and while strolling through the computer section i pointed out and laughed at one of these 'saty behind' computer games, with captions that read 'destroy the unbeliever' (paraphrase) etc. and not 10 seconds after i replaced it on the shelf this guy comes along showing it to his friend, 'yeah we're all going to heaven like next week'...
these 'ejection seat christians' hell bent on 'moving things along' should read some history, the schoffield bible came out luike a century ago and the world is still here - mess it up enough and you'll be stuck with the rest of us.
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Was this guy at Lodon drugs joking? I recall a lecture I watched from Sam Harris that talked about 30% of Americans believe the end of days will happen within their lifetime and another 30% believed it would happen either in their lifetime or in the next 50 years. Scary stuff.