Paradise (not) Lost

It's always deeply amusing when people try morally equating the Aztecs to the Catholics. The worst thing I can say about Catholics is that they are- quite literally- spiritual bureaucrats. More people have probably died waiting for Mass to end so they can finally use the bathroom than the Inquisition ever actually killed. The roughly 3000 people killed by the Spanish Inquisition were primarily the targets of pogroms following the Reconquista. People tend to not like their former occupiers and tax collectors trying to sneakily practice their old faiths after being told to convert or get the fuck out. Still less bloody than the average Socialist regime.

@BrisonF15778 @JimmyParker87 They share the same divine nature, they are two different persons.

@HeavenIsNotLost @JimmyParker87 So they are not the same being?

Mormons really don't know that every Christian denomination rejects them as Christians do they?

Or, when you articulate Mormon beliefs they will just lie and tell you that they don't believe that thing

Mormons: We are Christians! Christians: You affirm the Nicene Creed? M: No. Absolutely not. C: The Trinity? M: No way. C: Jesus was always God, at least. M: No, he was born of Heavenly Parents. C: Jesus is born of a virgin at least. M: No. God the father came down to ‘father’ Jesus the old fashioned way. C: Do you celebrate the Eucharist? M: With water. C: Does your Church have apostolic succession? M: Oh for use, in 1839 John the Baptist and St Peter, Paul and John appeared to Joseph Smith and gave him the Aaronic and Melchezidich priesthood. C:…what? Do you adhere to any of the ecumenical councils? M: No. Absolutely nothing of Christ’s Church existed after the Great Apostasy. C: The what? When did that happen? M: We don’t know. At some point. C: But God created the universe, at least? M: No. God reorganized existing matter. Matter is eternal and so is our intelligence which is the same as god the fathers’. C:… M: And we have temples where you go to get an endowment— C: Mormons are not Christians. M: Yes we are! It says so on the meeting house! C: Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!

Muhammad and Joseph Smith performed ZERO miracles to give testimony to their new doctrines. Jesus Christ and His Apostles performed hundreds of public miracles. Catholic Saints have performed public miracles for 20 centuries.

It is so crazy that Joseph Smith’s final words seem to be depicted here as an expression of faith and/or piety when he was simply uttering a Masonic distress call (“O Lord, my God, is there no help for the widow's son?”) This conclusion is corroborated by a number of LDS sources

@BasedMikeLee Just quit while you are ahead, no real Christian denomination from Catholics to the Orthodox, Presbyterians to Methodists, Baptists to Evangelicals are going to consider Mormons as real Christians after decades of Mormons calling them false Christians.

As of two days ago, the Pentagon recognizes every Christian faith in America as Christian Except one That’s not okay, and it needs to change—now Pass it on if you agree

@drebnan @calvinrobinson There is only one God (Deut 6:4) The Father is God (1 Jn 3:1) The Son is God (Heb 1:8) The Holy Spirit is God (Acts 5:3-4) The Father is not the Son (1 Jn 4:14) The Son is not the Holy Spirit (Jn 16:7) The Holy Spirit is not the Father (Jn 14:16)

Why are the Mormons demanding we call them Christians? What did I miss, did they accept the Holy Trinity?!

@KaiSchwemmer Speaking truth isn't edgy

Hating on Mormons is safe edgy 🤷‍♂️

@BasedMikeLee I read the original 1830 one, it is miles vetter than the current one, and that's saying something.

Read the Book of Mormon. Cover to cover. Pray about it, asking sincerely to know whether it’s true (the final chapter provides specific guidance on this point). Then tell me whether Latter-day Saints believe in Jesus Christ. Will you accept that challenge?

Today I learned the Mormons GENUINELY think they know Scripture better than us.

Atheists using the Rutherford atomic model as their religious symbol has always been so goofy to me, Ernest Rutherford used to sing Christian hymns while working in his lab. He wasn't exactly the most devout Christian in the world, sure, but he certainly wasn't an atheist

Fr Paul and Fr Simon showing us the mock up for the new Church we officially plan to build in Orem, Utah. He predicts Salt Lake City will become a hub of American Orthodoxy 🙏☦️

@Thrust_Hawk @DoomerCoomer @MattisRedacted I got 7 grand from Joseph Smith himself

@HeavenIsNotLost @DoomerCoomer @MattisRedacted Why is this post a sponsorship lol

What is the Mormon explanation for 1 Nehi stating that there were horses in the Americas in 600 BC? There definitively were not horses here at that time, so how does this not invalidate the legitimacy of the scripture?

@Latterdaytruth Lol

It’s bigoted. Making the “Mormon” section not even a circle is ridiculous.

@Latterdaytruth No

Are Latter-day Saints Christian?

@BrisonF15778 @JimmyParker87

@HeavenIsNotLost @JimmyParker87 How can he be the only begotten son of himself

@BrisonF15778 @JimmyParker87 There is only one God (Deut 6:4) The Father is God (1 Jn 3:1) The Son is God (Heb 1:8) The Holy Spirit is God (Acts 5:3-4) The Father is not the Son (1 Jn 4:14) The Son is not the Holy Spirit (Jn 16:7) The Holy Spirit is not the Father (Jn 14:16)

@aUSUualsuspect @Dsto30 @EvangelicalDW Provide me the verses then.

@HeavenIsNotLost @Dsto30 @EvangelicalDW It’s self-evident in the fact that the Trinity doctrine didn’t exist. It’s self-evident in the words of Christ. He said the Father is greater than He. He prayed to him. It’s evident in the baptism of Christ. A plain text reading of the Bible also supports the idea.

Nicene Christianity is the only Christianity.

@aUSUualsuspect @Dsto30 @EvangelicalDW I had it saved when I was speaking to another Mormon, a friend from college actually. The last one I came up on the spot.

@HeavenIsNotLost @Dsto30 @EvangelicalDW Nice. Which AI did you use for all that?