darkwriter
Sacramento, CA
age: 39
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I saw a bit of that episode on South Park and from what I recall they essentially nailed it on the head with Mormonism.
I was sitting at my bus stop when these youthful "Elder" Mormons came along - I found it sort of funny since the guy couldn't have been more than 22 if a day and his name tag said Elder Michael, but we chatted a little and he gave me one of their bible's. I was curious and really couldn't wrap my head around it too well, but the story about the gold tablets and an angelic visitation describing where they are located, etc - its all on a Wikipedia kind of informative site. I still am trying to figure out just how they managed to put Jesus into the equation but from what I fathom, at some point in Christ's life he came over to the America's and had shared a pipe with some indigenous people. But to me the people in this Mormon bible sounded more like they were Aztecs.
Part of me speculates someone borrowed imagery of Kokopelli in the SouthWest and tried to twist it into a Christian related theme in an attempt to convert the natives.
*sighs*
I have no clue where the gold tablets came in.
I don't mean to offend anyone - I'm a "other" Christian and I can't help but get snarky with some of this stuff, its just obvious someone twisted God's word to suit their own agenda and I wish people who believed in God (of any kind) would utilize what said deity graced them with - Common Sense!
Meanwhile - don't get me started on Scientology. To put THAT succinctly - it became a church so the originators could get out of paying taxes. That's it. The rest of it is science-fiction from a sci-fi author who plagiarizes Buddhism, Jungian psychology, Standard philosophies of just about any reasonable and intellectual culture, Wicca and just plain old common sense.
It's follower's outside of Hollywood are nigh cultish and there are a great many stories you can find on the internet about people having their lives threatened when they tried to get out of their little program.
Quite frankly, Scientologist people scare me more than any cult on earth.
I won't even give them the satisfaction of calling them a religion.
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curiousone2
Springfield, IL
age: 41
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Thanks, darkwriter.
Thats pretyy much what I was getting at.
they have taken the spiritual aspects of all of these faiths and distorted them, they are the people Jesus was saying we shouldn't fall for, as are the people Jewelz listed in his rather long list of crooked evangelicals. and evil spiritual leaders.
Don't you think that if we are both right, then the followers arent bad, or dangerous, they are spiritual victims.
It makes you wonder what happens to the Energy of the people that say, drank Jim Jones' kool aid. what do you think?
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darkwriter
Sacramento, CA
age: 39
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I think - even for those who are just absolute die-hard athiest's - no one living is ever going to know what happens to their soul when they die.
There's this part in me that thinks there is probably some scenerio where God gives them a last chance deal
you know - Door Number 1, or Door Number 2
I haven't met anyone yet who rejects God based on him just being God - they always cite the religion Zeus inspired King James Version god, not the Source himself.
I think at this point, any rational person who finally gets this "proof" would rather move onward into a spiritual life than cease to be. I don't believe in a fiery hell. I don't think of God as some kind of sadistic punisher. All of that fire and brimstone terrorism is what some old, sexually repressed scholar did back in the papyrus parchment days to oppress the ignorant.
But then again, ceasing to be with no consciousness whatsoever - isn't that bad to me  So I am not losing anything by what I believe in the event said belief turns out to be wrong.
The human ego has a problem with a Being that can do whatever the hell he wants to do, when he wants to do it, and really doesn't give a flying mushroom whether or not you like it.
So yea, on the flip side I could be wrong- when I die, if I wind up in the halls of Valhalla what am I gonna do?
My bad, Odin!
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