The other day my fiancé shared with me a news story about the Mormon Church. Apparently, the Mormons – who believe in the star Kolob and that our planet was first populated there before being hurled into orbit around our own sun here (or, as they say on Battlestar Galactica: “Life here began out there…) – believe that people with physical disabilities were once “valiant spirits” in their pre-mortal existence and that since they came to this life knowing that they would have to endure hardship (a fore-knowledge they of course cannot recall), that they shouldn’t be given any special treatment or accommodation other than Mormon voodoo witch-doctory since only the Mormon priesthood “has the sole authority on Earth to heal in the name of Jesus Christ.”
WTF!?!? Are people really so incredibly stupid as to believe this stuff?
I have nothing against the Mormons. My sister in law is a Mormon and she and her fellow Mormons are some of the kindest and most family-oriented people I have ever met. But come on…doesn’t this sound a bit like a bunch of jerks giving themselves an out for treating people with disabilities like crap? It might be one thing if the Mormon clergy could actually deliver on their promises of healing all manner of disease and ailment; but they, just like their charismatic ilk in the pool of “Christian” faiths, can’t…so you end up with children with untreatable spinal injuries crawling up the tabernacle steps while they hope for a miracle that just isn’t going to come.
Makes my head hurt sometimes…where do they come up with this garbage?
I guess the Mormons and their founders just wanted to be "special." That's why one version of Christianity has never been enough for people. There was only one Christ, and only one Word (well, actually there are at least four versions of Jesus’ story in the New Testament), so wouldn’t it make sense that we would only need on “universal” (i.e. “Catholic”) church?
I guess, but it’s hard, sometimes, to go along with another person’s vision, even if that person was the Son of God. It’s only natural that breaks and schisms will occur…and occur…and occur again…until the message and the intent of the messenger are forgotten, or at best twisted into something barely recognizable… something that sometimes allows for self-proclaimed messiahs to marry themselves to 12-year-old girls, worship space aliens, castrate themselves to achieve enlightenment, and drink cyanide laced Kool-Aid when all the insanity starts to crash in on their heads.
Sorry…my mind wanders… which has happened before, and will happen again…and again…and again…
Getting back to the Mormons…In spite of my perceived lack of a spiritual foundation, unlike many “Christians” I’ve met, I’ve actually read the Gospels many, many times. I don’t recall Jesus ever once saying that he traveled from Kolob to Earth on a Battlestar, or that it was okay to shit on the handicapped because they supposedly know what they were getting into when they decide to come live a life on Earth.
I think I would recall that...
MY recollection was that he was a healer of the sick. Somehow I think Jesus would rather punch a Mormon in the nose rather than allow a disabled child to suffer. I thought the core of Jesus’ teaching was “Love” and that we’re supposed to love and watch over one another. Somehow this whole Mormon thing seems out of step with that fundamental teaching. Oh well, apparently the founders of the Mormon religion lifted all the Kolob stuff and the Mormon concept of the throne of God from a book called “The Philosophy of a Future State” by someone named Thomas Dick. But really, who cares if Joseph Smith was more plagiarist than prophet…
The things people will choose to believe. But I guess it doesn’t matter. We’re just making it up as we go along anyway.
My inspiration for this: http://www.sltrib.com/news
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