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From: barry@ames.UUCP (Kenn Barry)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Wed, 17-Apr-85 02:19:26 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 17 02:19:26 1985
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Someone named Holly makes the following comments about Mormonism...

>Those promises are only in the Book of Mormon and
>the other doctrines of the Mormon church written by a man who saw all of
>this supposedly by revelation by putting a rock in his hat...his "seer
>stone".

>This man committed
>many sins during his life time.  He broke nearly every commandment that God
>gave us.

>It was the
>lust for other women that led Joseph Smith to have a "revelation" that led
>to polygomy.

>Yet here are five million people following the beliefs of a
>real con artist as I and many others see it.

>I don't understand this at all.  What about the five point upside down star
>on the temple? In the occult, this means the goat of geddes (Satan). 
>Explain this to me.  If this is the Lord's temple, why is the star of Satan
>on the front of it?

>Why are the rituals so similar to that of Freemasonary? (Joseph Smith 
>was really into this in case some of you don't know this.)  No where in the
>Bible does Christ tell us to keep secrets or hold secret rituals yet
>everything that goes on in the temple is a secret and all who partake of
>the rituals swear to a blood oath of death should they reveal the secrets
>of the temple.

and then ends her article by saying:

>I would really like some answers to some of the above questions because I
>honestly don't understand where the Mormon faith is coming from at all.

	To which I can only respond, cut the crap, Holly. Your questions are
no more sincere inquiries than Don Black's little questions about the Jews
were. Is Mormon-baiting really the best use you can think of for this forum?
If so, at least try to be honest about it. Your hypocritical "just a question"
approach offends the intelligence of anyone who can recognize propaganda when
they see it.

-  From the Crow's Nest  -                      Kenn Barry
                                                NASA-Ames Research Center
                                                Moffett Field, CA
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