Comments on: All fired up http://www.pelennorfields.com/matt/2005/10/26/all-fired-up/ The Pelennor Fields White Book: Red Book reincarnated Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:26:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Patrick http://www.pelennorfields.com/matt/2005/10/26/all-fired-up/#comment-257 Patrick Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:58:07 +0000 http://www.pelennorfields.com/matt/?p=1240#comment-257 <p>My best friend is Mormon and we used to debate it all the time. It got rather old because he would literally admit that what I believed was a lot more logical, and that he couldn't defend himself. But it just didn't matter. He was "mormon" - that's how he was raised, and well, that's just how it is.</p> <p>When people decide not to use logic, there's really no use in debating them anymore. I really don't know what to do when people act like that. The main way mormons get recruits is totally based on sociology. They get you involved with them and see what nice, friendly and helpful people they are, and you buy into it because you like them as people. No one ever gets convinced to become a mormon because they feel convinced that Native Americans are actually Jewish, and all the other nonsense mormons pedal.</p> <p>It's no wonder mormons are so often considered a cult. Nothing's quite as strong to keep you believing something as family and social pressures. (And probably a proof of the work of the Holy Spirit that any get saved at all!)</p> My best friend is Mormon and we used to debate it all the time. It got rather old because he would literally admit that what I believed was a lot more logical, and that he couldn’t defend himself. But it just didn’t matter. He was “mormon” - that’s how he was raised, and well, that’s just how it is.

When people decide not to use logic, there’s really no use in debating them anymore. I really don’t know what to do when people act like that. The main way mormons get recruits is totally based on sociology. They get you involved with them and see what nice, friendly and helpful people they are, and you buy into it because you like them as people. No one ever gets convinced to become a mormon because they feel convinced that Native Americans are actually Jewish, and all the other nonsense mormons pedal.

It’s no wonder mormons are so often considered a cult. Nothing’s quite as strong to keep you believing something as family and social pressures. (And probably a proof of the work of the Holy Spirit that any get saved at all!)

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