[67313] in Cypherpunks
"Mormon Asshole?" re: GAK
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John C. Randolph)
Fri Oct 4 16:02:16 1996
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 12:36:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: "John C. Randolph" <jcr@idiom.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Attilla Says:
>but what inflames the anti-mormon passions the most is the
>paid clergy of other organized religions whose employment is
>the paid ministry to their flock. Mormons threaten their jobs;
>the mormons have no paid ministry; it is all part of our
>"callings" to do the Lord's work.
Well, speaking as one who has occasionally been called anti-mormon
(although, I'm *really* not that specific!) The only time I feel
any anti-mormon "passion" is when I want to throttle one of your
missionaries. I like sleeping in, and being awakened by a kid who
wants me to join a religion is really offensive.
If the LDS church would just give up this damnable proselytizing,
I'd find you no more objectionable than the Tibetan Buddhists (whom
I actually hold in rather high regard, although they're never going
to convert me either!)
-jcr
PS: I do think it's a Good Thing that mormons don't pay the clergy.
One positive for LDS. Did you pick up that idea from the Ba'ha'i?
