Reply With QuoteYep. Criticize Wright or Islam and you're a bigot. Oh, you're Christian? Well fvck you then you intolerant SOB.Originally Posted by willytee
Thieves? Who are the Mormons stealing from?
Yep. Criticize Wright or Islam and you're a bigot. Oh, you're Christian? Well fvck you then you intolerant SOB.
^^ That well done, speaks truths.
Magic underpants from k mart?
I guess hes assuming ALL politicians are thieves.
I don't dog faith unless it is a complete hustle like Scientology. He may have been referring to the practice of tithing. Most mainstream Protestant congregations gave it up years ago. The LDS still request members of the church to tithe 10 percent of their income to the church. I don't know if it's stealing or not. We had a Bishop's Pence can growing up (Episcopal). I used it to buy candy.
Oh the Lulz.
Bring up the fact that many in the GOP has a problem with LDS/Mormonism, and now others are carrying on about hate crimes.
Here is a phrase for you "polishing a turd"
I'm with Biden on the issue of gay marriage. But I'm not letting that be my decisive vote. I want the US to succeed strategically and economically and I don't believe Obama is taking America down the right path to achieve this. For this reason I will vote for Romney.
This may come as a shock but. . .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tithe
And yeah, tithing is part of the Mormon church but it's not like they kick you out if you don't pay tithing.
I know damn well there are Republican voters who don't care for the LDS. They wanted their own place and massacred people in an outright shooting war in the American west. Non-believers returned the favor. It was not all that long ago. People still have hangups about polygamy, whether it's ancient history or not. In the rural pockets of our country, memories can run long. For the most part, however, as LD says, it's not that big a deal anymore for the majority of the GOP and voters in general. We've come along way since the Kennedy election, when as most of you know, people thought Kennedy would be subservient to the Pope as a Catholic.
What's the shock? I don't think anyone tithes with regularity except the LDS anymore. A voluntary collection plate is not the same thing.
"Tithing is commonly taught in conservative Protestant denominations such as the Southern Baptist Convention, Free Methodists, Baptist General Conference, the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Assemblies of God, and most Pentecostal groups and independent fundamentalists, as well as among Mormon denominations like The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Community of Christ. Despite the emphasis placed on tithing by the leaders of these and other denominations, the practice is seldom observed by the laity. According to surveys conducted in 2002 by the Barna Group, only three percent of American adults donated 10 percent or more of their income to churches.[13] Only six percent of those who self-identified as born-again Christians tithed. Barna noted the softer American economy at the end of the booming 1990s, and the 9-11 attacks as a cause for the waning practice."
It's not a uniquely Mormon practice today.
Tithing is still quite prevalent in very many Christian churches today. It's far from being peculiar to LDS. I've attended a handle full of churches of the years and I know this for sure.
Gimme your money!!! We need to build a Christian Mall for Kids!!! GIMME GIMME GIMME!!!!!!!!!
haha You'll make a good pastor.
Only if I get to see how cavemen rode dinosaurs...
"Gimme your money!!!! I have votes to buy!! We need more cheese, and Free Healthcare, and Free Education, and FREEE, FREEE FREEE!!!! In fact, you don't need to gimme because I've got the .gov in my pocket and we'll just TAKE it!!!!"
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