Posted by
Phil E. on Thursday, June 28, 2007 6:09:46 AM
The sure sign of a cult.Don't let even your members speak about their religion.(Consistent with their "
creepy cult warning" audio clip."
The Truth shall make you... silent?
One of the common questions you'll hear among Christians who evangelize to Mormons is: "If they have the truth, what are they so afraid of?"
Indeed, the Mormon mantra (and I REALLY mean mantra - they repeat this to themselves over and over again at least once a month at
Fast and Testimony Sunday) is
"I know that the church is true." (As if Jesus was going to ask you on Judgment Day what church you belonged to.
He will not.)
More specifically,
a comment from a blog by a former Mormon:
Standard content for a testimony (often the only words you'll hear from children as young as 3 who do this with their parents whispering the right words in their ear) starts out with:
"I know this church is true"
"I know that Joseph Smith is a prophet"
There's more but I don't care enough to try to recall. The point is that they are literally encouraged from a very young age to stand in front of a crowd of apparently like-minded people and explain how they "know" things that really are leaps of "faith". And its weird because I think this choice of phrasing comes from the Alma quote above.
And so the indoctrination into the cult begins.
Now, if what you believe is really the Truth, you should have no problem explaining and defending it, right? Kind of like trying to educate your Liberal acquaintances about the futility of their beliefs and the rightness of Conservative ones. Indeed, all
true Christians are commanded to "Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have."
1 Peter 3:15So why would the Mormon church violate this command to explain what facts their faith is based on, banning, instead, discussions about religion on their "property," even by their own members, under threat of law?
Men in Black
Here's a
recent report about how this works from some evangelical Christians
visiting the Mormon temple in Salt Lake City. (If you're ever in Salt
Lake City, try this for yourself. Visit the Mormon temple and start asking questions about religion. Ask them about what you've read in this blog.)
If
you have ever been to temple square, you will see, lurking in the
shadows, "men in black." These men, dressed in dark suits, each wearing
an ear piece are the "temple guards." They lie in wait to POUNCE UPON
anyone who dares discuss religion on their property.
Our first
encounter (of many encounters) yesterday came at the end our tour of
Temple Square. As the missionary sister guides were concluding the
tour, some in the group began to engage the missionary sisters with
simple doctrinal questions. Others in the group entered into a
discussion of Mormonism with a Mormon family who had been taking the
tour with us. The discussions were going GREAT... totally
non-contentious [he put this in here because contrary to the Jude v3 in the Bible, in Mormonese, "contention is of the devil"],
quiet and peaceful - both the Mormons and the Christians were enjoying
the dialogue when out of nowhere, a "man in black" appeared. (I swear
it was just like the Matrix.)
He
rushed in and in a raspy voice said, "YOU CAN'T TALK ABOUT RELIGION
HERE!" Everyone, including the sister missionaries and the LDS family
just looked at him with shocked expressions on our faces. We all said,
"Why?" He replied, "BECAUSE IT IS AGAINST THE RULES TO TALK ABOUT
RELIGION INSIDE OF TEMPLE SQUARE!" The Mormon family actually saved the
opportunity when they told the man that we were having a wonderful
discussion and that they wanted to continue. The temple guard, a bit
confused as to what to do, issued a few more warnings and then very
reluctantly allowed us to continue our discussion.
This type of
thing happened over and over again - all day long. A small group of
Christian missionaries would get into a discussion with missionary
sisters or LDS people and the men in black would charge in. The LDS
person would defend us, saying that we were being totally
non-contentious and pleasant, however, as the day went on, the temple
guards got meaner. They would tell the LDS person to leave the scene,
and then they would threaten to arrest us - FOR WHAT? For quietly and
in total non-contention talking about religion at a religious temple???
One older Mormon man, who was enjoying a discussion with one of our
college students actually put his finger in the face of the LDS guard
and said, "YOU ARE OUT OF LINE!"
If you can't beat 'em, silence 'em
Wow, this is right out of the Democrat play book. For years, the Mormon church in Salt Lake was troubled by Christians coming to their temple and, from the public sidewalks, proclaiming the truth about Mormonism. Turns people away and hurts the bottom line, dontcha know.
($)So the Mormon church did what any self respecting cult with a lot of money would do. It silenced its critics. In this case, by buying the up the public street in front of their building! Yeah, chill free speech. Now that's an American value.
That's only slightly less onerous than what another cult does.
The Church of Scientology has a declared strategy of suing critics.In a policy order dated Oct. 18, 1967, concerning a "suppressive person" (SP) or "enemy" of the church, Hubbard wrote:
"SP Order. Fair Game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed."
I don't want to get off on that tangent now about the whole unconstitutional issue of the Mormon church buying up a public street (only in Utah could a church get away with this) but you
can read about this Conservative, American way [sarcasm] of dealing with your critics yourself. Even
the ACLU came to the defense of Christians over this! (Some Christians were arrested for trespass when the street was still a street and had just been bought up.) That ought to tell you something.
Just like a Liberal
I've said before
that Mormonism is inherently Liberal. And, as Rush Limbaugh says, Liberals want to silence debate because they know they can't win in the arena of ideas.
This will be Mitt Romney's plan too, because
Mitt Romney is a RINO. (Look at the picture and see for yourself!) He's really a Liberal.
You've already seen how he tries to shut down discussion about his cult faith, at first deferring to the boy missionaries and now
labeling those who challenge Mormonism as bigots. (See how effective this has been on Republicans.)Don't vote for Mitt Romney. Don't put a Mormon in the White House. The Mormon church has already demonstrated it's not for the American value of Free Speech. Neither is Mitt Romney.