My LDS Mormon friends say this about Trump

[ZenMode]

Do you have any thoughts on the topic of the thread or Mormons...

If you had been able to read English for comprehension, you'd would have known that religion is the topic of the thread.


I was talking about your nutcase warmizombie congregation. Talk about extreme, fanatical scientific illiteracy! Wow, now that's a cult!

I see that you are still deflecting and redirecting. What gives? Can't you stay on topic for even just a moment?

So.....no.

 

[IBDaMann]

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Since we're talking about your WACKY religion, tell me more about the impending climate catastrophe!

 

[ZenMode]

Since we're talking about your WACKY religion, tell me more about the impending climate catastrophe!

Yah. I get it......

No.

 

[Into the Night]

Some of my Mormon friends have told me that Ether 8:25 (Book of Mormon) says secret combinations cause “the destruction of all people.” Not just wicked nations, all people who tolerate them. When good men stay silent, evil thrives in plain sight. The greatest danger isn’t what’s hidden, it’s what’s accepted.

They think Trump is the leader of a great secret combination to overthrow American freedom and religious liberty.

I hope they are wrong about Trump, but one has to wonder.

You don't get to speak for the LDS Church, Sybil. Omniscience fallacy.

 

[Into the Night]

Nope. But I have lived among and known so many of them all of my life. They tried to convert me but failed. I like a lot of them. Some of them are as judgmental as evangelical and Pentecostals I have known.

I do think the 'secret combinations' issue has some validity. And maybe the far right, alt right, and maga Mormons are a secret combination unofficially.

Your conspiracy theories won't work, Sybil.

 

[Into the Night]

My LDS friends voted for him and are Trump supporters. Methinks your friends are using select verses to confirm their bias, while mine are doing the same. However, your random Mormon friends are definitely not the majority of the LDS Church which, by their votes, seem to support Trump.

He doesn't have any Mormon friends. He's making it all up.

 

[Into the Night]

I don't think I argued that point. The LDS, though, have been decreasing in % of population in Utah, and there has been in my view a shifting toward the center for the more professional and academic LDS.

Argument from randU fallacy.

 

[Into the Night]

These are statistics from Dr. Jacob Rugh analyzing the vote in 2024 in Provo, Utah. More LDS, more suburban, more college-educated voters swung left in 2024.

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I am hearing more conservative Mormon friends saying the same thing.

Argument from randU fallacy.

 

[Into the Night]

Mormons R WHAT ,5% of the nation?

WHO CARES!

Argument from randU fallacy.

 

[Into the Night]

Nope. Definitely Mormons. The Garden of Eden is in Missouri. If you're a really good Mormon male, you can be God of your own planet. God literally had sex with Mary....

Stuff like that.

Just an additional layer of the crazy of Christians.

The Garden of Eden is in Missouri?? Did you go challenge the angel with the flaming sword?

 

[Into the Night]

Do you have any thoughts on the topic of the thread or Mormons or are you planning to continue deflecting and redirecting?

He's talking about your wacky religion. You have no other.

 

[Into the Night]

I didn't say it's serious. I'm saying it's not about climate change.

Surely, even someone as blind as you can see that.

It's not about Mormons either.

Might as well discuss your wacky religion.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

Some of my Mormon friends have told me that Ether 8:25 (Book of Mormon) says secret combinations cause “the destruction of all people.” Not just wicked nations, all people who tolerate them. When good men stay silent, evil thrives in plain sight. The greatest danger isn’t what’s hidden, it’s what’s accepted.

They think Trump is the leader of a great secret combination to overthrow American freedom and religious liberty.

I hope they are wrong about Trump, but one has to wonder.

It's ancient wisdom and even in the Bible:

Isaiah 5:20: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!”

Psalm 34:14: “Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.”

Ephesians 5:11: “And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.”