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Originally Posted by Link S.
First off some people may be used by God to bring about his plan whether that means you donating money to save a girl doesn't mean that God had nothing to do with it.
The unanswered prayers argument is immensly juvenile as it says I prayed about it and I didn't get it so there is no God. If you look at death through a religious point of view God wanted her family home, Meaning the girls. No ammount of prayer or fasting will entice God to do something that is not for the benefit of his children as a whole so who knows why God wanted her family home just know it is for a wise purpose which we know not.
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I have nothing against you, so please refrain from throwing out words like "juvenile". Im here to have an intellectual debate on the topic (EVERY topic I post on). Clearly we dont agree on this issue though and thats fine, we dont have to.
However you started a thread with your faith as the subject, so naturally there are going to be those of us who are going to feel compelled to present our issues with it.
These "anti LDS" sites that you talk about simply are throwing out discrepencies in the bible and book of Mormon. So if you dont like these sites giving out factual information that is your problem, these things are verifiable however.
Its also well know that Joseph Smith would NOT translate when called upon to do so. Why does religion always have to be mysterious?? If he could prove his faith why wouldnt he have done it??
As for the quote of yours that I quoted on here.....Im sorry but I dont buy into that stuff about how "God intended for them to die".
Let me tell you why. Maybe you could make that argument if a family say died in a car crash or something. But the family of this girl that I sponsor have been dirt poor, starving and struggling for their ENTIRE lives.
Take your worst day in your entire life, multiply it by 100 and you have just describe the BEST day in this families life.
So if your going to say that God intended for them to live a life which is quite frankly a living hell, then to make it even worse by taking away their sole provider and some of their sons I say that either there is no God...or WORSE that God is evil.
Why put human beings on this Earth only to have them suffer and then die?? I dont buy into all that "life is a trial" stuff for a second.
Not when you have scum like Paris Hilton being a really crappy person and yet living a life of luxury.
So ill say it again, although I respect your opinions, I feel that your faith is nothing more than an older version of Scientology that can essentially be disproven but that has brainwashed people into believing bits and pieces of it even though history itself disagrees with alot of what you believe to be truth.
I look at the Mormon faith and see alot of innacuracies, a not so trustworthy founder (Joseph Smith), a huge lack of reasonable thinking when it comes to their faith in comparison to history and science, and quite frankly some very serious question marks in all aspects of the church both past AND present.
Now with that said, some of my good friends are Mormon and I dont have any problems with any of you. I just think that you Mormons prefer BLIND faith to reality.