Posted by
Phil E. on Saturday, October 28, 2006 8:52:16 AM
Just watched Greta on FoxNews. (Tuesday, Sept 5, 2006). She's
interviewing a reporter from The Deseret News. (A Church owned
newspaper. In fact, BOTH major newspapers in Salt Lake are now owned by
the church. There's an interesting scandal about that, involving a
Mormon judge.) The reporter says Prosecutors will charge Fundamentalist
Mormon "prophet" Warren Jeffs as an accomplish to rape, because he
threatened to withhold salvation from teenage girls if they didn't
acquiesce to consummating marriages to older men. But wait... have
Mormon Prosecutors thought this through?
You see, in Mormonism, to get to the highest heaven (they have 3 levels of heaven) to be a god someday, you have to have a
Temple Recommend" - a special pass from the Church that allows you entrance into the temple.
And
what do you have to do to prove you're a good Mormon, worthy of a
Temple Recommend? Why, among other things, you have to prove that
you've tithed to the Church, what else? (It's always filthy lucre,
isn't it?)
And just as with the IRS, the Mormon Church wants to see documentation of what you make. [Corrected after listener comment. They give you an annual audit. It's called a "
tithing settlement"
where you report to your bishop you've been paying a full tithe and, apparently, he takes your word for it. Updated again on 10/31: A former Mormon tells me her grandmother used to take all her financial records to the settlement. So perhaps this is yet again one of those changing things in Mormonism that were done a generation ago, but not now. Maybe to avert identity theft, much like the latest change in the temple ceremony to prevent molestation.] Don't
pay your 10% and they take away your Recommend. See where this is going?
They
just opened the door to letting any former Mormon charge the Salt Lake
Church with theft by extortion! For, you see, in the same way that
they're accusing Warren Jeffs of being an accomplice to rape because he
threatened to withhold salvation, a bishop in the Mormon church is also
guilty of extortion. For just like Jeffs, he threatens to withhold
salvation to those who will not comply with his orders.
I ran
this past a former Mormon who concurred. Told me this: Do you know what
the first thing someone who comes out of the church says?
I WANT MY MONEY BACK!
While
the Salt Lake denomination is actually the Liberal here - the
Fundamental LDS being Conservative, truer to Mormon Scripture, which
requires polygamy to become a god (as well as their founder, Joseph
Smith and his polygamy) - do you really want a Mormon for President?
It's not the same thing as Christianity. If Mitt Romney doesn't follow
orders from his "Living Prophet" in Salt Lake, they might pull his
Recommend, and hence his salvation. It's like the Chicoms holding
phone-sex tape recordings over Bill Clinton's head.
Do you really want a compromised President like that?