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Originally Posted by ktfords
I have lived in a lot of places, never, I said never, has another faith or a non believer done anything like this to me or my family before. Then, I had to explain the actions of those families and tell them (my kids) they did not do anything wrong.
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I, too, have not meet Mormons who behave the way you describe. But like any other church there are Christ-like members and not so Christ-like. I hope you will run into a Christ-like Mormon some day soon because they are out there and there are a lot of them. Not perfect by any means but certainly trying.
I hope you won't judge the church on the impolite behavior of a few Mormons. Judge it on it's beliefs. Either Joseph Smith is a prophet or he isn't. He either translated a sacred text into the Book of Mormon as a second witness of Chirist or he didn't. Either Christ church had to be restored upon the earth because of an apostasy or it didn't. Either there is modern day revelation to a modern day prophet or there isn't. Those are the beliefs you should focus on and not on the members.
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