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From: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Mormonism (part I of IV)
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Date: Thu, 4-Apr-85 01:09:04 EST
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Summary: 

Can we stop this propaganda series before it starts?  (I doubt it, but
it's worth the try.)

Mormon theology is a fairly complex body of concepts, certainly worth
more than a series of quotes out of context followed by quotes from the
Bible (no doubt both taken from non-mormon "literature.")

Given, too, that the source documents for mainstream Christianity (The
New Testament) often contradict the Old Testament, updating it and
revising it, to criticize Smith's revelation on the basis of disagreement
with parts of the Bible is somewhat like the pot calling the kettle black.

Not that there isn't much to be discussed about the LDS faith, but let's
do it honestly rather than hunkering down behind our quotations throwing
charges of heresy like hand grenades.  I haven't seen any Mormons casting
aspersions on the more mainstream sects even though Joseph Smith was 
martyred at the hands of Christian Americans.
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						Byron C. Howes
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