im not saying anyone who is on here hates lds believers people do people dont, but if you do why? i live in utah and you wont believe how many people are against mormons.

i am mormon but not very religious. and i overhear conversations sometimes that people are saying "that guy is mormon i would rather ignore him" or something close to that. i have friends that smoke, drink etc. and they are the nicest friends on the planet. you dont hear me saying "im not going to talk to him cuz he drinks or im not going to talk to him cuz he smokes"

i understand that missionaries walk up to your door and say "hi we are here to talk to you about our faith". they are just doing what they believe and if you dont want to talk to them dont slam the door on their faces just simply say "i am not interested thank you" and they will leave you alone im on both sides on this. people dont like being preached to and people dont like being hated upon. you dont have to become lds if you dont want to just dont spread the hate of mormons around its not cool they are human too.

like i said before i am not accusing anyone on here im just announcing.

sorry about the punctuation i wasn't the best at english

I do not agree with them. with that said when i was in the service i found that the only new people comming inn that told the truth were LDS airmen. One became a good friend niether of us discussed our religion we basically knew what each other believed. I from thier action would give them a vote of confidence on thier outstanding character I found in them. Blessings..Miles

my grandmother (my dads mom) she is a mormon and my grandfather was catholic and they were married for over 60yrs

Maybe it started with the multiple marriages they did or still do? It doesn't mean it's right for others to judge them, of course. One thing I don't care for (and this isn't LDS related) is what I call the "door to door, let me force my religion on you" which now the Baptists do, and the Jehovah Witnesses do too. The last time I had the Baptists at my door, I thought I was going to have to call the police to get them to leave. That's crazy. Methodists don't go door to door like that, let alone get that obnoxious. It's something that I've never understood all my life.

I think its scary that the history of the Mormon church is so short and there are already people with in the church trying to cover up who Joseph Smith was and how he lived his life. He started out being somewhat of a swindler. However by the end of his life he was willing to die for the religion that was created from his actions. I know I'm going to get a lot of grief for this but I think this is probably how Jesus lived his life. He needed to get by so he did basic magic tricks and the whole healing the sick show. Over time things changed people bought into his whole myth so he started to also and he saw peaceful protest was the way to go. Care for the poor, everyone is the same in the eyes of God. He bought into it so much that at the end he was willing to die without a fight, just like Joseph Smith.
Unfortunately the strongest and most loyal followers of both of them do not have faith in the truth. They needed to make up things to make them look better or smooth over bad things. Faith is what these followers lack, faith in the true story and life of their leaders.

Perhaps it has something to do with salt lake city having the largest number of registered child sex offenders. Or maybe it’s that salt lake city has the highest rate of parents doping their kids with ridelin. Or maybe it’s that up until the 60’s mormon doctrine stated black folk couldn’t hold the priesthood in the church because they were inferior beings in the pre existence.

I used to hate mormons and with good cause, it was my milk religion. But, the more you know the real history behind the church, Mormonism is just more and more ridiculous and amusing. that anyone still buys into this religion speaks volumes on human stupidity.

But don't you think every religion must start out like that?

no

Which do you think is the exception?

i just dont like Mitch romney and it aint his religion.

budhism and taoism; both originated from the pursuit for truth, not the pursuit of dominion...

I am saying that if you look at thier founders. The actual Guy. You would find a flawed individual that turned toward the light.

LDS is the religion of Mormon?

LDS is the religion of Mormon?

intersting, think of the history of it

it is a christian view that man is fundementaly flawed. no, i do not agree. there is a supreme difference between the individial who seeks the truth and the individual who instead embraces delusion.

When I said the Guy I didn't mean the one worshiping. I meant the actual breathing man that started the religion. Jesus in Christianity, Etc.. This may be tough for taoism cause I think it was more of a rules to live by type of thing.

i understood you perfectly... i think perhaps your knowledge of joe smith is a bit week. i give him the same credit aleister crowley did.. nothing more. i think perhaps you know very little about the man. it would my pleasure to answer any questions you may have about the prophet or his church....

Mormonism is not Christian, i dont believe you called it such on purpose.

however becasue they call themselves that doesnt make them such