Dead Republik

The world is in the toilet. Do you sit or do you stand?

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@RT_com Find a rope and a tree and see if he understoods that.😶

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True story

[Texas Family Project @FamilyProjectTX]

Mormons are strong family oriented people.
Mormons are generous people.
Mormons are often nice and loving people.

Mormons, however, are not Christians.

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@KimKatieUSA @Shell Or just don’t patronize businesses owned and operated by Indians.😶

[Joel Webbon @JoelWebbon]

Mike Lee's complaint only works if everyone agrees to ignore what Mormonism actually teaches.

He wants the public to focus on the label while averting its eyes from the contents.

But theology is not judged by branding.

If it were, every cult in America could become orthodox by hiring a better marketing department.

Mike Lee belongs to a religion that teaches God the Father was once a man who progressed to godhood, that human beings may follow the same path, that Jesus and Lucifer share the same heavenly parentage, and that the highest aspiration of the faithful is not merely to worship God forever but to become gods themselves.

These are not minor disagreements within Christianity. These are different answers to the most basic questions Christianity asks.

Mike Lee knows this.

He was raised in Mormon royalty, educated in Mormon institutions, and formed by Mormon theology. His objection is not that the Pentagon misunderstood Mormonism. His objection is that the Pentagon accidentally described it accurately.

What makes the spectacle particularly amusing is that Mormon leaders spent generations insisting they were not what Mike Lee now demands to be called.

-Joseph Smith launched his movement by declaring every existing church on earth an abomination.

-Brigham Young mocked the God of Christianity as a being who "never did exist."

-John Taylor described Christianity as "a perfect pack of nonsense."

-Bruce McConkie warned that the doctrines of Christendom would damn men's souls.

-Gordon Hinckley openly admitted that the Christ worshiped by Mormons was not the Christ worshiped by traditional Christians.

For nearly two centuries Mormon leaders built a theological wall between themselves and Christianity brick by brick, sermon by sermon, book by book. Now Mike Lee appears before that same wall demanding to know who built it. The answer is simple: his own prophets did.

The deeper problem for Senator Lee is that Mormonism's truth claims are so spectacularly strange that they force a choice. Either they are true, in which case historic Christianity has been wrong for nearly two thousand years and Joseph Smith really did restore the gospel through golden plates, angelic visitations, sacred underwear, proxy baptisms for the dead, and a seer stone in a hat. Or they are false, in which case Mormonism is one of the most successful religious inventions in American history.

What it cannot be is ordinary Christianity.

The faith that emerged from Nicaea and Chalcedon has many internal disputes, but none of them involve exalted men becoming gods, planets populated by spirit children, or a deity residing near a star called Kolob.

Mike Lee is free to believe every one of those things.

What he is not free to do is pretend they are the same religion that produced the Apostles' Creed.

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@TheGermanicist The same demon that visited Mohammad visited Joseph Smith as well. That wasn’t an angel.

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@DaylanAlzamora No they aren’t.😶

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@LostMyHats It’s just another heresy that would have had them crusaded upon and burned at the stake in medieval times.

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Mormons don’t tell non Mormon people about this do they? It would make it seem like they were some kind of cult?

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@Mrgunsngear That was true shock and awe “with teeth.” Not the crap they do today.

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@collegefandave You are in a successful cult because it carried on after its leaders death.

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@RepMikeKennedy Notice you put “Latter day saint” first before Christian. Mormonism is a cult spawned by a false prophet. It is not Christianity as it does not recognize the trinity and believes God was a man.

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Can’t wait to play !😂

[Dr. Clown, PhD @DrClownPhD]

🚨BREAKING: First unofficial gameplay footage from Indian Simulator has been leaked.

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@marklevinshow Can you ban yourself from the U.S. too?

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@SenHydeSmith @LindseyGrahamSC All gun laws are unconstitutional. Even when in the hands of felons.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸The Senate just killed the SAVE Act, 48-50.

Voter ID and proof of citizenship, supported by over 80% of Americans, dead.

Four Republicans voted no: Tillis, Murkowski, McConnell, Collins.

The uniparty showed its face today...

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@nosoup4knowles Only modern society nurtures its defective children. In ancient times they were put out to exposure.

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@Mappy6984 Never trust someone that smiles all of the time.

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@McJuggerNuggets I don’t blame you. What parent wishes they had a deformed or retarded kid? Power to those parents that tough it out but not everyone is up for the challenge.

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@ImGinnyRobinson Bye.

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@SenSanders Can you back that up are is it just speculation?