Roman Catholic and Mormon

Now, I cannot vouch for the Catholic church, but you have certainly screwed up information regarding the Mormon religion.

First of all, Joseph Smith was not in England when he received his first vision as a 14 year old boy. He was in New York. :)

The vision never told him to disallow his family to join religions; it only gave guidance for himself. However, it stands to reason that he would inform his family that their religions were wrong.

He didn't unearth the golden plates from a hill near his farm. He unearthed them from a hill in the Central-South America region.

Joseph Smith never ran for President of the United States.

Mormons were not simply "shunned." Try the word "persecuted." Have you not heard of the mobs in Missouri, the massescre of Nauvoo?

Brigham Young did not decide to move the Saints (a more correct term for Mormons) from Missouri simply because they wanted plural marriages. It was more along the lines of wanting to move the Saints out of harm's way.

And what you refer to as a "camp" in Salt Lake never became an empire. Certainly, it has a lot of Mormons and Mormon influences, but I don't know quite what you mean by "empire." Moreover, it cannot still exist today, because Utah was annexed into the Union.

Mormons don't see god as the true Messiah. The Mormon religon sees God, the Father, His Son, Jesus Christ, who is Jehovah of the Old Testament, and the Holy Ghost, or Spirit.

They are three separate entities, although they are joined in heart and mind by the same purpose.

"Today Mormons are described as anti-modern and anti-pluralist. Mormons don't change a rule if it does not work, like the Catholic Church, they simply suffer and live with it." Would you rather the Mormon religion be hypocrital and teach one thing while changing the rule to fit with modern evil?

Mormons are not polygammists; they stopped the practice in the 1890s. The reasons for polygammy were that women were often left widowed by persecution and war, and, in that day and age, needed a husband to take care of them. Only certain men were allowed to have more than one wife, and they had to undergo major spiritual testing before being allowed the office.

The Mormon religion believes that there is one person that is the eternal companion for another person, and polygammy was merely a way of seeing widowed and poor women taken care of.

"Mormons have strict codes of behavior that they have to abide by, the examples are no: alcohol, tobacco, tea, coffee and they also follow regulated dress norms. In Catholicism you are allowed to have and use all of those things, as long as it dose not cause sin."

First of all, these "codes" are not very strict, nor do Mormons absolutely HAVE to follow them. All of the things you listed are indeed detrimental to the body and so are not all that bad to give up. Regulated dress norms aren't strict or mandatory either. These are all guidelines to follow. The dress code is simply to keep modest apparel: nothing sleeveless (ie tank tops, spaghetti straps...), nothing revealing an enormous amount of cleavage, etc. Basically, it is meant to keep the men looking cleanshaven and well-dressed and the women from looking like sluts.

You consider girls being unable to sleep in the same room as a guy to be outrageous? I believe that there is another part to that rule: ALONE. And, that rule is for the protection of both parties; to make sure that they are not TEMPTED to engage in sexual activities.

Mormon women are not allowed the priesthood. Women are allowed to hold offiices and callings, such as president, vice president, and secretary of such church organizations as the Young Women and Primary organizations, but they are not able to receive the priesthood.

People who marry outside the Mormon religion are not "shunned." They are not looked down upon. It is simply encouraged to marry a good Mormon boy or girl because then said Mormon boys can take their Mormon girls to the Mormon temple, where they can be married for eternity.

"If they still marry without the consent of the church they would not be legally married in the eyes of the church nor be acknowledge." I don't know where you get that for Mormons.

We don't receive revelation only from the Book of Mormon. We believe in the Bible, and study it regularly.

How can you know for sure that Joseph Smith wrote it? It seems highly unlikely that he could have, since he never had any formal education and could not know of the geography that is detailed in the Book of Mormon.


If you're going to get your information, you should get it directly from the Church, not from propaganda sites. The Church missionaries, members, or bishops would be more than happy to supply you with any information.

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