Do you wish to have work down on a hat or Jacket? This is the place to go!!!!
Afterwards, I began my walk towards home.
I noticed two guys on the sidewalk and quickly recognized them by their Uniforms.
They were Mormons!!!
I had the music on and I was cruising away.
One of the guys tried to chat with me but I just kept on trucking.
I quickly came to a sudden stop and had a change of heart.
I decided to have a chat with the two guys.
Of course they were from Utah U.S.A.! They quickly realizes that they had a little problem? They stop a guy with ADHD and of course stories I do have . . . lol . . .
I asked them if they knew what was a blogger?
I was surprised they didn’t?
I explain to the guys blah blah blah....
We discussed the issue of religion for a few minutes and I’m sure we’ll meet again. < Not if they see me first! >...lol..
One guy wanted to take a pic with his camera so he was nice enough to play along by wearing my new blogger hat!!!!
So? What do you think of their religion?
Myself, I’m a Catholic and I believe that I will die one?
I have been debating the issue of the way they treated the black population for years.
Did you know in the 50s they believe that blacks would only go in heaven as Slaves?
All this change in the 80s when someone received a message from God that Blacks should be allowed in the Mormon Faith.
But the sad part is the guy who got the message threw his whole family off a 12th floor building and committed suicide himself. But that’s history now and Blacks are allowed to pray with the Mormon religion.
As for the two youths who stop me on the streets?
They sounded like nice people.
What do you think of their religion?
9 comments:
I've always found the Mormons to be the most polite of the apostletizing sects. Also, while they may have their own dogmatic agenda for why they do so, the work they've done compiling genealogy data is unrivalled in helping family tree researchers.
"What do you think of their religion?" That's really a silly question to ask. It doesn't matter what religion a person is.
"It doesn't matter what religion a person is."
Religions have the ability to affect the thoughts and actions of many, to in turn influence society as a whole. I'd say religion matters quite a bit. Just because one may be agnostic or falls asleep in church, you shouldn't expect all people to be so apathetic.
Now, I don't mind the Mormons, but what if the person in question was a Moonie, Solar Temple cultist, or a member of the Manson family? Would it still not matter if they were recruiting on the streets of Fredericton?
as long as they aren't polygamists. Gross.....
Not to say that I think all Mormons are polygamists. I know that they aren't all in that ideology. What I'm trying to get at is that I think Mormons all seem like very nice people. When ever they try to convert me they are very nice, ha ha!
That is a very interesting fact about not letting black people be mormons unless they are slaves; I didn't know that! But of course, almost all white peoples' ancestors have wronged visible minorities in the past, and what is important is that they have changed that rule.
When I was last approached by mormons, one of the girls was non-white, so we are seeing this in practice, not just in theory.
I don't mind your everyday Mormon, I think they are quite kind. Much better than Jehovah's Witnesses anyway (I'm just joking... but if I had to pick....)
Many people practise polygamy-they just do it before they are married:) But as for being gross, well, just read your bible! Lots and lots of polygamists in there!
Technically, until quite recently the catholic church didn't think anybody but catholics even got into heaven, so the mormons are one step up-at least they were in there! To compare religions, a good question is which 'heaven' sounds best. A lot of young people like the sound of the thousands of virgins that muslims get, but that sounds like way too much work, and what about the choices of those virgins? The Jehovah witnesses have those covers where the rainbows are glowing and all the people are living in peace and harmony with all the animals. That sounds nice, but playing ring around the rosey for eternity sounds as boring as 'singing hossanahs' for eternity.
Like most religions the people are quite nice, but like most religions when you get into the faith is where it gets dodgy. The bible is pretty draconian, revelations reads like an opium nightmare, and the book of mormon reads like an acid trip. Pick it up some time, its quite entertaining.
The main problem I have is any religion where they don't let you think and act for yourself. Jehovah Witnesses won't let you celebrate Halloween. The mormons do a lot of good work themselves though, but their 'decrees' come down from 'on high' in Utah, where people can be married before we'd even let them legally have sex.
They are also very involved in media, at one time they owned CBS, but I think they sold it. But they have a massive media empire, although I suppose better them than Rupert Murdoch! I still remember the book "The Mormon Murders" that sent a shiver up my spine, it was an investigation into some Utah shenanigans. However, that doesn't mean anything about the 'foot soldiers' who at least get out there and meet people and get (some) people to talk about religion.
The JWs lost me when they told me that without killing (in response to the book with the tiger and the lamb livin' it up together), there's no meat eating in Heaven. I felt pretty bad for the tiger and definitely was not keen on going myself after that.
I invited the JWs into my home for Bible study, for several months to give them a fair shake. It was one of the most frustrating things I ever did. They have a number of church-sanctioned books that quote the Bible and then have essays on the meanings, usually out of context, while demonizing theologians and literary critics.
It took me all that time just to get them to actually open the Bible and plainly read it. They even brought elders from their district churches to my house (univited) to guide me. All I wanted to do was read the Bible. They had no problem lecturing me on how infallible it was but would never read more or less than the prescribed passage on the prescribed subject before turning back to the prescribed manual.
It just got too frustrating and finally I had to give up.
Church-sanctioned books that quote the Bible and then have essays on the meanings, usually out of context? Sounds pretty much like any television evangelical preacher I ever heard and most bible study groups I have sat in on for that matter.
Yeah, but some are worse than others. If a mennonite or a unitarian has a theological conversation with you it sounds far different.
As soon as any religion starts throwing the &^%$ on another religion then they've pretty much lost credibility.
Most religions, particularly christian ones, don't want people to know too much about what they are reading. For example, the story about "let he who is without sin cast the first stone" was never said by Jesus, it was written in by a scribe.
Most of the meanings when looked at in context of their original language don't mean anything close to the current meanings they are given.
I did notice also that the JW have a set routine. Their 'green' greeters, usually two women or a woman and a kid show up just to get you to open the door. If you are at least friendly then after two visits the 'higher ups' come along, usually older gentlemen. At that point they give up if you don't come around. However, at least they are always friendly.
I think not eating meat would be a good way to enjoy heaven. If you actually watch nature a lot then its clear that hunting is the worse part of any carnivore's day. They do it becaues they have to, not because they want to.
But for those like the above that thinks it doesn't matter that's far from the case. I can remember many examples where public employers of a certain religion routinely hired those of the same religion.
Scientology is like that too. I remember when I was a wide-eyed, young buck on the streets of Halifax, maybe fifteen years ago now, and I came upon this gorgeous, voluptuous, leggy, buxom, almost-supermodel standing in a doorway on Argyle Street. All of a sudden, she propositioned me to "come on up" and "try a quick little test". (Kinky, eh?)
Now, I'm thinking, "this isn't Hollis Street so she's probably not that kind of girl... what the heck!"
I went up and sure enough, it was Dianetics. I did the test and they gave me this praising but transparent result. "You're good at this, you're great at that, very gifted in this category BUT there's one little thing you should work on... Why not watch a video and afterwards, pick up a copy of our book."
I skipped it and went for a beer at the Seahorse instead.
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