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http://www2.tbo.com/news/faith/2012/jan/22/mormon-church-works-to-dispel-mystery-as-profile-i-ar-349954/By MICHELLE BEARDEN | The Tampa Tribune
Published: January 22, 2012 Updated: January 22, 2012 - 5:00 AM
For a religious denomination that claims about 2 percent of the American population, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is getting a lot of attention these days.
There's the award-winning Broadway play "The Book of Mormon." There's the Mormon author of the popular "Twilight" vampire series, Stephenie Meyer. And Donny and Marie Osmond are still performing to sold-out crowds at the Flamingo Las Vegas.
Everyday people have gotten their moment, too, thanks to a 2010 church-funded national advertising campaign called "I'm a Mormon." snip
"They're going to see him more as a person than a stereotype," Patrick says. "Here's what they will learn: Mormons are regular people with jobs, who love their families and get involved in their local communities. We're not some wide-eyed cultists planning some nefarious plot."
rustydog
(9,186 posts)Look! We seem normal just like you, we just think God cursed the Negro!
Vote Romney!
sadbear
(4,340 posts)No, we're not like him at all. (When, in fact, they're more like him than they would like to admit.)
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)far into the depths of your religion
No secrets, no lies, everything open
If not then you are just a cult in my opinion
jody
(26,624 posts)Edit to correct broken link.
for supernatural beliefs that exist independent of all known scientific support.
Joseph Smith, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith is no exception and who is to say that his story of the supernatural is not right and others are wrong, e.g. Moses, Bahá'u'lláh, Gautama Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad, Zoroaster, and many others some forgotten?
Greg M. Epstein, a Humanist chaplain at Harvard University, states that "essentially all the world's major religions were founded on the principle that divine beings or forces can promise a level of justice in a supernatural realm that cannot be perceived in this natural one."
Those who have been abused in this life cling to justice in the next and that can make the difference in enduring one more day at a time rather than simply giving up.
Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)XemaSab
(60,212 posts)jody
(26,624 posts)never let me down.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)...talk about a culture clash.
metalbot
(1,058 posts)I'm not big on the Mormon church as a whole, but I've liked every Mormon I've ever met. I'll occasionally let the missionaries in and offer them water on hot days. The missionaries are kind of idiots, but in a very likable way.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)they should allow nonmembers to attend weddings, observe their religious practices, and open up their historiCal documents to outsiders.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)jody
(26,624 posts)MattBaggins
(7,904 posts)I can attend a catholic mass, visit their properties, view their religious writings. Catholic priests will sit down and discuss doctrine with me. I can do the same with Jewish Rabbis and with most Protestants.
Mormons are a bit less likely to allow others to see what the are really about.
jody
(26,624 posts)In any of those cases, I hold to my assertion until someone, anyone, presents scientific proof that the supernatural upon which all religions depend, exists.
That would require using the tools we use to explore and understand the universe composed of energy and matter dimensioned by space and time, can be shown to apply to its complement, the unknown realm of divine entities.
MattBaggins
(7,904 posts)Will there be leprechauns and unicorns?