What is an anti-Mormon?

[_Shulem]

Are you usually this, er, overwrought?

Niadna, I see you have found our resident antimormon. He likes to be shocking but I think he expresses what he honestly feels. I do not know a cure for his angst.

Now she knows the definition of an antiMormon. You do too.

What's the definition of an antiChristian? Have you ever thought of that, huckybaby?

[_moksha]

Oddly enough, I have never seen an LDS Temple with a burgundy ribbon and a motto for Multiple Myeloma awareness plastered in the window.

It is rare for Mormons to even use that particular combination of words (Faith, Hope & Love). Sort of like referencing the Great Commandments, and not be talking about obedience to authority and the word of wisdom.

Although not all LDS word avoidance is long lasting. Consider the use of ministering to be a good example of how things change.

Niadna, what religious tradition or school of thought do you subscribe to?

[_Shulem]

Niadna, what religious tradition or school of thought do you subscribe to?

That's a very good question.

[_Niadna]

Oddly enough, I have never seen an LDS Temple with a burgundy ribbon and a motto for Multiple Myeloma awareness plastered in the window.

It is rare for Mormons to even use that particular combination of words (Faith, Hope & Love). Sort of like referencing the Great Commandments, and not be talking about obedience to authority and the word of wisdom.

Although not all LDS word avoidance is long lasting. Consider the use of ministering to be a good example of how things change.

Niadna, what religious tradition or school of thought do you subscribe to?

Goodness.

Isn't it obvious? ;)

I'm a TBM. Dyed in the wool, seminary graduate, returned missionary, married in the Temple, mother of five kids, swallower of the Kool-aid. I believe that Joseph Smith, though far from perfect, really was a prophet and that the Book of Mormon is a real record of a real group of people. I believe that the church as it is has more truth than anybody else, though it doesn't have all truth, or that truth doesn't reside anywhere else. It's just that I believe we have the most. If I didn't believe that, I'd go find something else I thought had more truth. I believe that we have the priesthood authority.

The question here is what flavor of Kool-aid. I swallowed. The problems I mostly have, at least elsewhere than here, and I don't know about 'here' yet, is that I claim to have swallowed the grape flavor, and everybody else insists that I REALLY drank the strawberry/raspberry/lemonade/whatever. ANYTHING but the grape.

OK. That was a really dumb analogy. As in, really bad...but it sorta works so I'll keep it.

I'm also a believer in evolutionary theory, that Kolob is a star and God did NOT grow up on it, that there probably was not a world wide flood (though a great many nasty local ones), that the story of Adam and Eve was mostly metaphorical, and that God really doesn't give a hoot whether somebody believes in the Great Flood or not. I think He believes that taking care of one another is more important.

I dunno...I THINK that makes me a TBM.

[_Fence Sitter]

I dunno...I THINK that makes me a TBM.

My definition of a TBM is someone who believes in all the words of the prophets. So when you say you do not believe in a God who requires belief in a global flood, or a literal Adam and Eve story or that God resides on Kolob and so on, that means you are not a TBM. You actually fall into the category of being a cafeteria Mormon who picks and choose what to believe.

Since you are fairly new to the board and might not get everyone's posting style, the above is meant to be some irony wrapped up in a bit of sarcasm.

[_Shulem]

I dunno...I THINK that makes me a TBM.

My definition of a TBM is someone who believes in all the words of the prophets. So when you say you do not believe in a God who requires belief in a global flood, or a literal Adam and Eve story or that God resides on Kolob and so on, that means you are not a TBM. You actually fall into the category of being a cafeteria Mormon who picks and choose what to believe.

Since you are fairly new to the board and might not get everyone's posting style, the above is meant to be some irony wrapped up in a bit of sarcasm.

Yep, she's definitely not a Chapel Mormon, per se -- but an Internet Mormon. She's the kind of Mormon that makes the prophets roll in their graves and you can be sure that Joseph Fielding Smith and Bruce R McConkie would warn her that she is on the road to apostasy.

Welcome, Niadna honey, we are going to help you out of the church and you can learn what it's like to live a life of love all by yourself without the plastic LDS church telling you how to do it. Just love others because you want to and not because you're assigned to by the cult. You don't need the cult to live a wonderful life. You don't need Jesus either.

[_moksha]

The question here is what flavor of Kool-aid I swallowed.
I'm also a believer in evolutionary theory, that Kolob is a star and God did NOT grow up on it, that there probably was not a worldwide flood (though a great many nasty local ones), that the story of Adam and Eve was mostly metaphorical, and that God really doesn't give a hoot whether somebody believes in the Great Flood or not. I think He believes that taking care of one another is more important.

I dunno...I THINK that makes me a TBM.

Being able to think for yourself might make you more NOM than TBM. Do you prefer your grape Kool-Aid with raspberry overtones or a hint of scouring powder?

[_Shulem]

And you don't need Heavenly Father either.

Niadna, will you go down to the telestial board and tell me if you think he has an anus?

Does Heavenly Father have an ANUS?

Thank you.

[_huckelberry]

I dunno...I THINK that makes me a TBM.

My definition of a TBM is someone who believes in all the words of the prophets. So when you say you do not believe in a God who requires belief in a global flood, or a literal Adam and Eve story or that God resides on Kolob and so on, that means you are not a TBM. You actually fall into the category of being a cafeteria Mormon who picks and choose what to believe.

Since you are fairly new to the board and might not get everyone's posting style, the above is meant to be some irony wrapped up in a bit of sarcasm.

fence sitter, my mother lifelong Mormon of Mormon family , no general authorities but back far enough to have handcarted would agree with Nadnia not your proposed hyper pious trying harder than useful version of tbm.

[_huckelberry]

What's the definition of an antiChristian? Have you ever thought of that, huckybaby?

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