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What if a BSB went to the temple?
nicksgal:
I have my moments. lol
Purpura Lipstick:
This is a long one for being posted yesterday. Mostly because of the religious aspect probably.
I was raised Roman Catholic and have taken quite a bit of heat growing up. Mostly because people don't understand the worship aspects of the faith since it has the same root as many of the other religions.
As for Mormons, the only thing I dislike is the door to door attempt to preach. Though the ones I've turned away have always been curteous about me doing so. *shrugs* If I wanted to seek out a particular faith I would do it on my own. But hey Jehovah's Witnesses do the same thing so yeah. heh.
Pretty much I will discuss religions with people, I like to debate the details and play devils advocate (yes I will debate you against religion) but it's only to get people thinking and really learning how to defend their own faith (one guy told me I helped him grow deeper in his faith) LOL. I have been hated and called athiest for it ...heee.. I'm of the belief though you don't bash a religion and only can speak negatively about it if you know the religion deeply and not just think you know it. I like to take aspects of lots of different religions and form my own beliefs off of them, that's how I am now.
As for a story about a boy falling for someone from LDS I think it would be interesting for the religious aspect. Quite a drama can ensue with a boy fighting his love for the girl because of her religious beliefs but that's the only reason he fights it because she is a perfect match for him. It would be quite intriguing though I could not write it since I do not know the Mormon faith well enough to write about it.
My husband was rasied RLDS *Ducks* It's called something else now but I've heard that Mormons HATE RLDS but he can't tell me about the split or how they differ.
honey:
--- Quote from: Purpura Lipstick on January 06, 2008, 03:53:44 PM ---This is a long one for being posted yesterday. Mostly because of the religious aspect probably.
I was raised Roman Catholic and have taken quite a bit of heat growing up. Mostly because people don't understand the worship aspects of the faith since it has the same root as many of the other religions.
As for Mormons, the only thing I dislike is the door to door attempt to preach. Though the ones I've turned away have always been curteous about me doing so. *shrugs* If I wanted to seek out a particular faith I would do it on my own. But hey Jehovah's Witnesses do the same thing so yeah. heh.
Pretty much I will discuss religions with people, I like to debate the details and play devils advocate (yes I will debate you against religion) but it's only to get people thinking and really learning how to defend their own faith (one guy told me I helped him grow deeper in his faith) LOL. I have been hated and called athiest for it ...heee.. I'm of the belief though you don't bash a religion and only can speak negatively about it if you know the religion deeply and not just think you know it. I like to take aspects of lots of different religions and form my own beliefs off of them, that's how I am now.
As for a story about a boy falling for someone from LDS I think it would be interesting for the religious aspect. Quite a drama can ensue with a boy fighting his love for the girl because of her religious beliefs but that's the only reason he fights it because she is a perfect match for him. It would be quite intriguing though I could not write it since I do not know the Mormon faith well enough to write about it.
My husband was rasied RLDS *Ducks* It's called something else now but I've heard that Mormons HATE RLDS but he can't tell me about the split or how they differ.
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aww. We don't hate the RLDS (Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints), we just get tired of people mixing the two up because most of the time people don't even know that the RLDS church exists. They just assume that they are the same religion and then everything the two different religions believe gets lumped together and it creates a lot of misconceptions about our faith. (as if we don't have enough of those to begin with :D) But of course we don't hate them. I've only ever met one RLDS member in my whole life and she was a very nice person. It was interesting to talk to her and I learned they have a lot of the same principals as the LDS faith. Which makes sense because they are a branch off the faith, but they differ in the few core elements that we consider to be very important.
I didn't know it was called something else now?
Purpura Lipstick:
^ I looked it up, they call themselves Church of Christ now. *shrugs*
Jason told me that LDS members were forbidden to speak to RLDS members. *shrugs* Doesn't matter he doesn't go to that church anymore, he has his beliefs but we'd probably go to some non-denominational Christian church if we wanted to attended services.
MaggieW:
--- Quote from: honey on January 06, 2008, 06:59:51 PM ---aww. We don't hate the RLDS (Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints), we just get tired of people mixing the two up because most of the time people don't even know that the RLDS church exists. They just assume that they are the same religion and then everything the two different religions believe gets lumped together and it creates a lot of misconceptions about our faith. (as if we don't have enough of those to begin with :D) But of course we don't hate them. I've only ever met one RLDS member in my whole life and she was a very nice person. It was interesting to talk to her and I learned they have a lot of the same principals as the LDS faith. Which makes sense because they are a branch off the faith, but they differ in the few core elements that we consider to be very important.
I didn't know it was called something else now?
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Yeah, I think it's called Community Church of Christ or something along those lines; I'm not positive. I actually didn't know they existed until about... oh... maximum of five years ago. Thus I never met anyone, to my knowledge, from RLDS.
I don't really know how they got started either other than this: After Joseph Smith died and the majority of the Saints had gone to the Salt Lake Valley, Joseph's wife Emma eventually remarried. I don't know when RLDS was organized, but they asked Joseph and Emma's son, Joseph III to lead them. He said no two or three times before he finally agreed. I think, also, that the leadership passed down through the family to today.
If any of that is wrong, please correct me, because I'm interested in learning how they differ from the LDS church. Along with every other Christian church and other religion out there.
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