Text 3413, 70 rader
Skriven 2009-03-18 22:54:06 av Ross Sauer (1:123/789.0)
   Kommentar till text 3410 av Chinacat (1:124/311)
Ärende: Brazilian rape victim...
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"Chinacat -> ED HULETT" <1:124/311> wrote in
news:7501$HOLYSMOKE@JamNNTPd:

 C> On 3/18/2009 8:15 PM, Ed Hulett wrote to Chinacat:
 C>>> Kirtland, Ohio, in 1831...assault and battery, performing
 C> marriages without
 C>>> a valid license, attempted murder, and involuntary servitude
 C> without ->  C> compensation during the Zion's Camp military crusade to
 C> Missouri. ->
 C>>> There's a lot more. That's just 2 years worth.

 ->> None of those charges are based on any illegal activity. They were
 C> all based on
 ->> anti-Mormon sentiment.


 C> Some of them I'll give you. But I don't see how you can say fraud,
 C> assault and battery, and attempted murder are not illegal activity?
 C> And in 1831, defrauding people of money by telling them that he could
 C> find treasure on their property by looking into his hat at some 'seer'
 C> stones WAS illegal. It was classified in the same category as palm
 C> reading, or claiming to be psychic in order to obtain money...much as
 C> it is in a lot of places today. He was convicted, btw.

 C> Printing your own money is also illegal...which Smith did with the
 C> Kirtland Bank. Today they call it counterfeiting.

 C> A few of the things that Smith was taken to court for are no longer
 C> illegal but WERE at the time of his arrests.

 C> So can it with 'anti-mormon' sentiment being behind his troubles with
 C> the law. He was a crook and a conman and deserved a lot more time
 C> behind bars than he got.

This happens all the time with "the faithful," China.

Their particular faith's religious leader is so "Holy" that they can do
no wrong, even when they are shown to be scummy, at best.

Jim Jones' "People's Temple" still exists, and they still follow Jones'
teachings.
(Oh, and they claim "the government had him and all those followers
murdered...)

Same thing with David Koresh's bunch of loony tunes.

There are people all over the world who consider the Pope to be
infallible.
Just a couple days ago Pope Rat the 1rst while in Africa said condoms
makes the AIDS epidemic worse. (I know, WTF?)

By all accounts, Smith was a con man, and womanizer.
He found excuses for both.
His successor was a racist pig. At best. (And may have been behind a
massacre of settlers passing through.)

George Carlin put it best, "No one can hold a candle to religion in the
bullshit department."

Penn and Teller here show how the Bible is bullshit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1UbSw9Wcjs

If someone wants to believe in bullshit, fine.
Just keep it out of my face, officially out of the public schools, and
out of the government.

If their faith is so weak it needs official status, then it has nothing.

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