ericmiami wrote:

crossroad wrote:

ericmiami wrote:

crossroad wrote:

How about including some religious diversity lessons in the lesson manuals for the youth?

chills) I always get leary when I here about proposed "diversity" indoctrination classes. I think most LDS people are probably just living their lives and trying to suvive on an average of 28k per year with huge families to support. give'em a break!

So you are anti-family, crossroad?


Not at all. But I am Anti- 28k per year for families to try and live on.


Are you actually trying to engage in discussion Eric? Rather than useless blathering and one liners?

No, I'm just making fun of your stupid remarks.


How tolerant of you Eric...and how mature in your actions.

Tori wrote:

It begins in Sunbeams. Unfortunately, the children are taught at a very young age that by being Mormon, they are right and everybody else is wrong. The Church their family belongs to is the ONLY TRUE church, all of the others are false. They stand up at the pulpit at 4 yrs. of age and everybody thinks it's so cute as their mother whispers in their ear their testimony they are suppose to say where they proclaim that they "know the church is true, that Joseph Smith was a prophet, that Pres. Hinckley is a prophet today", etc, etc. It's a subtle but it's a form of brainwashing teaching elitism at a very young age.


It happens in Catholic Catechism as well.

And it happens in other Christian faiths as well. I have spoken of my son's experiences at an Assembly of God private 'Christian school'.

When his homeroom teacher disclosed to the class that my son was a Mormon and three other boys were Catholics. And these 'sweet little Christian children' followed the boys around on the playground, throwing rocks at them and calling my son a 'little Mormon bastard', and the Catholic boys 'Cat-lickers'...and taunting them that they were going to hell.

And Muslim children learn it at their mother's knees as small children, and from the Imams in their schools and mosques.

wrz wrote:

Wren wrote:


However, I do believe where much has been given much is required.


Much was not given. It was earned.


A-FLIPPIN'-MEN!!!

Wren wrote:

wrz wrote:

Wren wrote:


However, I do believe where much has been given much is required.


Much was not given. It was earned.


Since you are active LDS (as you have stated elsewhere), I counsel you to follow King Benjamin's advice in Mosiah about taking care of the poor. It is not your duty to question 'why?' but 'to do.'


Just HOW does one go about 'taking care of the poor' Wren?

Does a poor man who cannot even manage to adequately provide for his family have anything left to give toward 'taking care of the poor'?

I am a small business owner. I have worked my butt off for over 24 years. I have almost been taxed right out of business on more than one occasion.

How can I do more to help the poor? If I received a decent break when it comes to taxes...I could hire more employees.

Instead of giving anywhere from five to ten more men each a fish, (so to speak) I could teach them how to fish, provide them each with a rod and a line, and they would each be able to provide for their families.

In turn, these additional men would increase the number of jobs I could contract, and I would make more money, and be able to afford to hire even more men...and so on and so forth.

And the more money I made...the more I would have to work with to assist in taking care of the poor.

ericmiami wrote:

WRZ:
We may have a superior Military but our enemy has a winning military. They have figured us out. They will never engage in the type of war that we could win. They're too smart. They will stick to their game plan and while doing it, stick it to us.
What a naive people we are. We squander our birthright for a mess of pottage.

I agree with you on this absolutely. That is exactly why we were doomed from the start when we went into Iraq. No way out from day one. Mission Accomplished?


There is a way to get "Mission Accomplished." Get the news media and the liberals on America's winning of the war side.

How do we do that? That's were leadership comes in. That's what they pay leaders big bucks for. To figure these kinds of things out.