Positives of Mormon religion:The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (abbreviated as the LDS Church, and colloquially referred to as the Mormon Church) is a restorationist Christian church and the largest denomination originating from the Latter Day Saint movement founded by Joseph Smith, Jr. Founded in Upstate New York in 1830, the church is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, and has established congregations (called wards or branches) worldwide.
* No Drinking
*No Smoking
* Modesty in women
*No adulterous relationships
*No premarital sex
*Cleanliness
*Very organized
*?Monotheistic?
*Positive view of Prophet Muhammad
*Crazy feminists not allowed
Cons:
*They think they'll become Gods in the hereafter...
*Priesthood (membership) denied to Blacks until quite recently.
Mormon view of the Prophet:
B. H. Roberts: “[God] raises up wise men and prophets here and there among all the children of men, of their own tongue and nationality, speaking to them through means that they can comprehend; not always giving a fulness of truth such as may be found in the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ; but always giving that measure of truth that the people are prepared to receive. . . . . So with the Arabian prophet, that wild spirit that turned the Arabians from worshiping idols to a conception of the Creator of heaven and earth that was more excellent than their previous conception of Deity . . . Wherever God finds a soul sufficiently enlightened and pure; one with whom his Spirit can communicate, lo! he makes of him a teacher of men” (Defense of the Faith and the Saints, “Revelation and Inspiration,” volume 1, Part 3, chapter 4, pp. 512-513).
DISCOURSE BY PRESIDENT GEORGE Q. CANNON
JoD Volume 24,pg. 371
"I believe myself that Mahomed, whom the Christians deride and call a false prophet and stigmatize with a great many epithets. I believe that he was a man raised up by the Almighty, and inspired to a certain extent by Him to effect the reforms which he did in his land, and in the nations surrounding. He attacked idolatry, and restored the great and crowning idea that there is but one God. He taught that idea to his people, and reclaimed them from polytheism and from the heathenish practices into which they had fallen. I believe many men were inspired who lived after him and before him, who, nevertheless, did not have the Holy Priesthood, but were led by the Spirit of God to strive for a better condition of affairs and to live a purer and higher life than those by whom they were surrounded were living."
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George Albert Smith,JoD Volume 3 pg. 30
"About six hundred years after Christ a prophet rose in Arabia, by the name of Mahometâ?¦ Mahomet continued preaching: there was nothing in his religion to license iniquity or corruption; he preached the moral doctrines which the Savior taught; viz., to do as they would be done by; and not to do violence to any man, nor to render evil for evil; and to worship one Godâ?¦. They raised a superior force of 3000 men, and had a second fight with the prophet (in 626) who could scarcely muster 1200 men; his orders not being obeyed, his followers left the field, but the prophet was determined not to be beat from the track, and concluded to fight the battle alone: his intrepidity and boldness on the occasion converted a leader of the infidel army, named Khaled, and he subsequently made him his general and surnamed him the sword of Godâ?¦. Now this man descended from Abraham and was no doubt raised up by God on purpose to scourge the world for their idolatry.â?Â
These people seem much better folk than the vile Southern evangelical Christians that have been called the American Taliban with their intolerance of everyone else.
