Originally posted by: astrocase
Mormons? Total crap religion. Guy I worked with couldn't pay his 10% fee or whatever it is they want all the time so he called up the church elder and told him he wouldn't make his payment. They told him he had to. He told them he couldn't pay both his mortgage and his fee. They told him he had to.
He paid his mortgage. They excommunicated him. All his friends were Mormon and they excommunicated him for paying his mortgage.
Total crock of a religion. He had to pretty much start over since he lost his friends and his religion.
When I was in H.S. a girlfriend's best friend was Mormon. I wasn't allowed in their house. Very rude. I had to stay outside since I was a guy. I was treated like some kind of dog that would rape her if I stepped into their home. Very very weird people.
I've met many nice Mormons but these two examples just piss me off.
Originally posted by: TheShiz
don't you even think for just a second that the fact that you can take one letter out of Mormons and spell Morons is a coincidence.
Originally posted by: Ronin
Originally posted by: astrocase
Mormons? Total crap religion. Guy I worked with couldn't pay his 10% fee or whatever it is they want all the time so he called up the church elder and told him he wouldn't make his payment. They told him he had to. He told them he couldn't pay both his mortgage and his fee. They told him he had to.
He paid his mortgage. They excommunicated him. All his friends were Mormon and they excommunicated him for paying his mortgage.
Total crock of a religion. He had to pretty much start over since he lost his friends and his religion.
When I was in H.S. a girlfriend's best friend was Mormon. I wasn't allowed in their house. Very rude. I had to stay outside since I was a guy. I was treated like some kind of dog that would rape her if I stepped into their home. Very very weird people.
I've met many nice Mormons but these two examples just piss me off.
The first 'example' is a total crock of sh!t. They don't excommunicate you for not paying tithing. Why you would spread such idiocy is beyond me, unless you're one of the 'fundamentalists' who would rather spread FUD about something you either disagree with or just to cause an argument.
The second one had nothing to do with the fact that they were Mormon. If the parents didn't want guys in the house, bfd...live with it..don't blame it on the religion, blame it on the parents.
If you're going to post in this thread, keep it real, please. Those of us who know about the religion are going to call you on it every time.
Originally posted by: Nik
Who are you guys to say that he's lying? Just because you can't imagine YOUR church kicking someone out for not paying tithe doesn't mean another mormon church wouldn't.
Dude, it's the same church. It's one church, all following the same protocols. If someone really was excommunicated for such an offense, in all honestly, the bishop (or whoever authorized it) would be put under disciplinary action from the church and the offending persons church status would be re-evaluated. Getting kicked out of the church for not paying tithing simply is not true in any way shape or form.Who are you guys to say that he's lying? Just because you can't imagine YOUR church kicking someone out for not paying tithe doesn't mean another mormon church wouldn't.
That's right, an individual branch of the church does not have any right to create there own rules for kicking somebody out, all church protocol are followed the same. And that is correct, there is no paid clergy in the church, at all. Not a dime of any tithe paid goes toward any church leadership. They all have regular jobs, regular lives, and regular families.Originally posted by: PatboyX
Originally posted by: Nik
Who are you guys to say that he's lying? Just because you can't imagine YOUR church kicking someone out for not paying tithe doesn't mean another mormon church wouldn't.
right...but wouldnt it be like a catholic church kicking someone out...the head of the mormon church has authority above and beyond the actual building. and i dont think mormon churches are set up in the heirarchy of paid clergy...so what authority would they have to actually do that?
i mean, i recognize that it might make little difference in the sense you are implying but at the level of Church vs. church it does.
Originally posted by: Alienwho
That's right, an individual branch of the church does not have any right to create there own rules for kicking somebody out, all church protocol are followed the same. And that is correct, there is no paid clergy in the church, at all. Not a dime of any tithe paid goes toward any church leadership. They all have regular jobs, regular lives, and regular families.Originally posted by: PatboyX
Originally posted by: Nik
Who are you guys to say that he's lying? Just because you can't imagine YOUR church kicking someone out for not paying tithe doesn't mean another mormon church wouldn't.
right...but wouldnt it be like a catholic church kicking someone out...the head of the mormon church has authority above and beyond the actual building. and i dont think mormon churches are set up in the heirarchy of paid clergy...so what authority would they have to actually do that?
i mean, i recognize that it might make little difference in the sense you are implying but at the level of Church vs. church it does.
Originally posted by: dwil
Not to imply illiteracy, but it's sorta clear...
Originally posted by: dwil
they called us Morons on the throughout most of the civlized world.
Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: Alienwho
That's right, an individual branch of the church does not have any right to create there own rules for kicking somebody out, all church protocol are followed the same. And that is correct, there is no paid clergy in the church, at all. Not a dime of any tithe paid goes toward any church leadership. They all have regular jobs, regular lives, and regular families.Originally posted by: PatboyX
Originally posted by: Nik
Who are you guys to say that he's lying? Just because you can't imagine YOUR church kicking someone out for not paying tithe doesn't mean another mormon church wouldn't.
right...but wouldnt it be like a catholic church kicking someone out...the head of the mormon church has authority above and beyond the actual building. and i dont think mormon churches are set up in the heirarchy of paid clergy...so what authority would they have to actually do that?
i mean, i recognize that it might make little difference in the sense you are implying but at the level of Church vs. church it does.
Right, because churches have never disagreed and split over this exact thing before! No, never! Nobody even *thinks* of running a church differently and every single church of each denomination believes exactly the same about everything!
Come on now, get real.
Originally posted by: Nik
Right, because churches have never disagreed and split over this exact thing before! No, never! Nobody even *thinks* of running a church differently and every single church of each denomination believes exactly the same about everything!
Come on now, get real.
Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: dwil
they called us Morons on the throughout most of the civlized world.
fixed and QFT?