late dinner with a danite
The night is thick with moonlight, drunk with noise
Too soft to stir the sect of those asleep,
Too loud for creatures vigilant--or dead;
The booing of an owl reverberates
Inside the full moon, as the Elder's foot-
Falls lag outside my cabin door. I hear
The rap of bone on wood, a summoning;
I rise--alone and unexcused I leave
A supper table spread with negligence,
The aftermath of twilight's lingering meal.
Decidedly I slide the wooden bolt
Across the planks and open wide the door.
I glance and quickly look away from his
Warm Countenance; I look away as if
I'm viewing an eclipse; I look away,
My glance is quickened by ashamed resolve.
The Elder who but follows the man who
Communes with God extends his arm across
The open doorway; in his hand, for me,
A shovel. Following him through a dark
Gray meadow I, with measured breath, come to
A place I teach my hands and foot to dig.
Because the Elder's moved by charity,
Because the only way to heaven is
By an atonement for my sins on earth,
Because it's better to die than ask why,
Because the thinking is already done,
I lay face down, throat cut from ear to ear,
Inside a three-foot grave, beneath the sod.
J.T. (ex-Mormon Christian)
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“They can leave the church, but they can’t leave it alone.”
So goes the clever, catchy quip of the so-called Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, designed to put down any former Mormon who has ever written anything or spoken out regarding the falseness of Joseph Smith and the Mormon religion.
Here’s another quip: The Mormon religion left Christianity, but it has never left it alone.
I made that up, of course. It’s not so clever or catchy, . . . but it's true.
From Joseph Smith's claimed vision, where Christ allegedly slammed all churches, their creeds and their professors, to the Book of Mormon calling the sum total of all non-Mormon churches “the great and abominable church, which was founded by the devil and his children,” from the dozens of statements by LDS leaders throughout the history of their religion attacking all of Christianity, to the over 50,000 LDS missionaries regularly going into people’s homes to convince the already-churched, to join the Mormon ‘church,’ . . . the Mormon ‘church’ has NEVER left Christianity alone.
Aside from the hypocrisy of the LDS slogan in light of the above facts, the LDS leadership is unable to explain the phenomenon of there being a LOT more resigned ex-Mormons, un-resigned ex-Mormons, excommunicated Mormons and inactive Mormons in the world, than there are active members.Read more: “They can leave the church, but they can’t leave it alone.”
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In their objection to Christians who wear a cross, Mormons ask, "if Jesus had been killed by a gun, would you wear that around your neck?" The question exposes the Mormon's depth of depravity and disrespect for the Holy scriptures, as they reduce the cross's significance to that of a mere murder weapon. If I were inclined to wear anything around my neck, and a gun had been used to kill the Savior, then yes, I would wear a gun around my neck. Because, that gun would not be, any more than the cross was, the murder weapon that killed my Savior.
The cross represents the power of God unto my salvation. 1 Corinthians 1:18 For the story and message of the cross is sheer absurdity and folly to those who are perishing and on their way to perdition, but to us who are being saved it is the [manifestation of] the power of God. (Amplified Version)
Fact is, the cross did not kill the Savior, nor did the nails in his hands and feet, nor did the soldier's spear in His side, nor did the beating and whipping beforehand, nor did the subsequent carrying of His cross through the streets leading to the hill called Golgotha. What killed the Savior was God's love for me that He sent the Savior as my replacement; which place the Savior took willingly to pay the penalty of death, which I deserve.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
My sins killed Jesus. The Savior was God's (thoroughly undeserved) gift (grace) of eternal life to me. He saved me from the well-deserved certainty of eternal damnation in the lake of fire. The Mormon's question proves that Mormon's entirely miss the point of the Savior's cross, despite and given the Apostle Paul's proper, and inspired representation of it.