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1ofhissheep Introduction - Page 2

We do, I hope, differentiate between non-Mormons with valid but searching questions, and anti-Mormons who are openly hostile.

Yet even anti-Mormons need answers, whether they will take them on board or not, and provided that the knife of respect cuts both ways - to uswards and to themwards - some reasonable discussions could ensue, misinformation corrected, falsehoods exposed, light shone into dark corners, and misconceptions set straight.

It has been my experience on many occasions that those who claim to either have been Mormons once upon a time, or who say that members of their family are Mormons, are not always speaking the truth.

The litmus test is the questions themselves, for no one who has ever been a Mormon would even need to ask about many of the things that professional anti-Mormons churn out in their trashy books, and if they ever do, then they were either not Mormons, or if they were, they did not have both feet in the Church, and the waters of baptism didn't reach their hearts.

The sensationalism of such as J Edward Decker, who says he was LDS for twenty years, a temple attender, and an elders quorum president forces us to the inexorable conclusion that either Decker was no Mormon, or that he knows full well that the things he writes of as being normative to Mormon experience are substantial falsehoods. No other possibility exists.

For example, when Bill Schnoebelen writes that a member of the Council of Twelve told him about a "room of skulls in the SLC temple," or that temple attenders "sign their covenants with their own blood," we know that Bill is either missing his medication or that he is in the middle of another mendacious meltdown.

I have met such 'ministers of hate,' as Decker et al, and know that those who were once Latter-day Saints have departed from God's standard of veracity for no other purpose than to do as much harm as possible to the Church.

Nothing in such behaviour is consonant with either loving Jesus or knowing God, and that's the rub that exposes evil intent. Anti-Mormons often accuse us of being hypersensitive or even paranoid, but we are neither of those things, we are just experienced.

How wonderful it would be if someone were to ask honest questions about us because they really wanted to know exactly what we do believe, and are not given to telling us what they have been duped into believing we believe.

Introduction ofhissheep

CapnMoroni, not sure if you realized, but this is the Welcome section, and the Intro Thread of someone no longer here. I believe you will find the LDS based Discussion Threads within either the Studies of Latter-Day Saints or Deep Doctrine Boards.