Quote from: Death on October 14, 2014, 03:21:01 PM

Dedicate two ninjas to that board at all time.

That's an option, but I could also give ultimate power to the OP in Anarchy, so that they could delete posts made there and lock the thread if they so choose.

Quote from: Death on October 12, 2014, 09:31:29 PM

3. We're not a cult. We are Christian.

I don't think it does anything to pointlessly insult someone, and I don't think labeling it as a cult accomplishes anything. The practices I've experienced (forced mission trips, outcasting those that refuse to do one or fail to finish it, extremely exclusivistic practices such as the practices in temples, etc) are largely cultish, but who does it help to argue about the term?

As for Christianity, there are a few basic tenets that define the various denominations. First, there is only one God, which Mormonism denies. Second, encompassing the first and second commandments, is that it is wrong to believe in false gods. There are several more that are absolutely contradicted by Mormonism. Here's a list of some other doctrinal conflicts:

-The Book of Mormon's supremacy to the Bible
-Satan and Jesus are "spirit brothers"
-God used to be a man
-You may become a god in the afterlife
-God is married to another goddess and literally procreates with her to make spirit children
-The Trinity is three distinct beings, rather than a trinity of one.
-Denial of the virgin birth, a critical fulfillment of prophecy heralding Jesus as the Messiah
-Without Joseph Smith there is no salvation, and no salvation outside of the LDS church
-Lack of believe in salvation by grace alone
-Lack of believe in the inadequacy of Jesus in the act of salvation
-No salvation without accepting Joseph Smith as a prophet
-Acts are greater than grace in salvation

The fact is that the Book of Mormon is easily refuted as viable using historical concepts. Nobody from Jerusalem traveled to America and established a colony. Native Americans originated from a different continent. Skin color is not tied to ancestors' sins (I know this has been addressed by the church, but it's just backpedaling).

The beauty of Christianity is that all the documents are there to be criticized. We have extremely old copies of the texts. The textual accuracy of all the known copies is so strong that it's a historically accepted document and is literally the most consistent and accurate chronology in existence. We don't have that with the book of mormon, because the original tablets were "lost". Mormonism contradicts the word of God, therefore it's not Christian.

"But we believe in Jesus, and that's all the matters."

James 2:19 "You believe that there is one God; you do well: the devils also believe, and tremble."

So I just finally get here, and Camnator's already leaving? This is bullshit.