The LDS church is cult-like

Reasons to agree

1. The church used to have you promise to slit your throat, if you broke your covenants. This is pretty messed up. 

Reasons to disagree

1.  There are some people with strong opinions within the church, that don't agree with those around them, and don't care what the leaders say. 


2. The church no longer has you make weird life or death promises. 


3. Mormons believe in Christ. The same Christ of the New Testament. They accept the new testament. They try to live the teachings of Jesus. 


4. Calling Mormons a cult is an insult to Mormons, and those who love Mormons. It is a way of dismissing them, and saying they are not real people that cry, live, and love, and die. 


5. My mother is a Mormon. She is the best person whom I have ever known. When you say Mormons are members of a cult, and you are insulting her, and I want to knock your block off. 


6. When you call people a member of a cult, you are trying to say that they are bad people. 


7. Yes, their have always been wierd things about the Church that bothered people, but you can't just focus on these things, and say everyone who is a member is weird. These members also had problems, but they looked at the whole picture, and came down on the side that the good outweighted the bad. Every Church has some wierd stuff. Perhaps not as bad as Mormons, but you have to admit that the Mormons have some good stuff that non-Mormons don't have. It is wrong to only focus on the bad, and then say they are a cult. You have to look at the good also, if you want to be considered fair. 

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LDS prophets do not seem to have the gift of prophesy

Reasons to agree

1. LDS Church leaders have often prophesied things that did not happen. +2


2. The fact that LDS Church leaders were unable to see through Mark William Hofmann is evidence that suggest that LDS prophets do not seem to have the gift of prophesy. 


3. Joseph Smith seems to have been fooled by the Kinderhook plates. But more than just being tricked, he claimed to have the power to translate them, and made up stuff about them.

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1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Hofmann


2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinderhook_plates

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The LDS church lies about Joseph Smith

Reasons to agree: +2

1. My mission president told us that Joseph Smith never consummated any of his marriages to any of his wives but Emma. However, I've heard that, when the re-organized church was saying he never practiced Polygamy, Brigham Young got sworn affidavits from women in Utah, that he consummated their relationship  That they were married in every sense of the word. 


2. Not telling all the truth, and letting people make up their own minds is a form of lying. If the church really wanted to be 100% honest, like the 10 commandments teach, they should frankley admit Joseph Smiths mistakes.

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1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Joseph_Smith's_wives. I grew up in the church in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. I never knew any of this stuff.


2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_Latter_Day_Saint_polygamy

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