Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!usc!rutgers!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: hall@vice.ico.tek.com (Hal Lillywhite) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Real and unreal Christians Message-ID: Date: 6 Nov 90 08:18:32 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or. Lines: 35 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article birchall@pilot.njin.net (Shag) writes: >... The Mormon stated steadfastly that no one who was >anything but Mormon stood a chance of ever getting into heaven This sort of true but rather oversimplified. LDS (Mormon) belief is that one must be baptized by an authorized agent of Jesus for that baptism to be valid. We believe that the authority to do so today resides with our peiesthood holders. However we believe that for those who do not have an honest chance to receive such baptism in this life the Lord provides a way for them to accept it between death and resurrection. >{Baptists particularly, I learned with chagrin, are no friends of the >Mormons - oddly enough,... I suspect this depends on the variety of Baptist. I have met some on the net who are very open and friendly. However I can also testify from personal experience that some are quite willing to persecute others for religious reasons. I was raised LDS in a Southern Baptist community and the religious attacks were there. They sent out poorly informed religious attacks when my dad ran for the school board. The best school superintendent we ever had was Catholic and they hasseled him until he left town. Some of the unkind things done to me were probably the result of kids being kids but a lot of the religiously motivated political attacks were directly sponsored by churches. Please do not take this as a blanket condemnation of all Baptists or even all Southern Baptists. I know there are many who do not suscribe to this kind of behavior. Unfortunately there are also quite a few who regularly teach about us in Sunday School and what they teach is usually wrong. This last of course is not limited to Baptists but it seems to me they are more likely than most denominations to do it.