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Date Posted: 00:16:21 06/25/11 Sat
Author: George
Subject: Re: You People Sure Love Elvis!
In reply to: Lois 's message, "Re: You People Sure Love Elvis!" on 10:13:04 06/23/11 Thu

>>I heard that one of the reasons for "revisioning" the
>>church was over the embarrassment of unique terms and
>>names that the general public misunderstood:
>>
>>"Reorganized? Is your church in bankruptcy?"
>>
>>"Branch? Is your church a bank?"
>>
>>"Everybody here is bragging about how they went to
>>Graceland. You people sure do love Elvis!"
>>
>>But the selection of the new name is most unfortunate.
>>Most of the members can't wrap their mind around
>>"Community of Christ," so they say, "I am from the
>>Community of Christ church." To which the addressee
>>replies, "Gee! I've never met anybody from New Zealand
>>before!"
>>
>>George
>
>Well George,
>
>They didn't want people to think they were Mormons, so
>they chose a Mormon for their Peace Award.
>-------
>
> >href="http://www.cofchrist.org/peaceaward/">http://www.
>cofchrist.org/peaceaward/
>Peace Award to Honor
>Terry Tempest Williams
>by BRAD A. MARTELL, Peace and Justice Ministries
>and LORI MARTELL, Independence, Missouri, USA
>Herald, June 2011
>
> >href="http://www.progressive.org/?q=node/334.">http://w
>ww.progressive.org/?q=node/334.
>Terry Tempest Williams Interview
>Terry Tempest Williams Interview
>by David Kupfer
>
>A fourth-generation Mormon and native of Utah, she
>takes inspiration from her church and from nature.
>-----
>
>They act like the Mormon leadership.
>
>Lois
>

Lois, the institutional priesthood of the Communitarian Church (the "Community of Christ") is in lockstep with the LDS leadership in their evolution into Sadducees.

The Sadducees, as you recall, were the official priesthood in Jesus' day, until Jerusalem was destroyed (as He predicted.) The Sadducees did not believe in the supernatural at all. They were pretty much humanists who believed that religion was a superstition by which the ignorant population could be controlled and exploited for cash. It was their birthright from Moses, whom they apparently believed was the greatest con artist up to that time. It was the Sadducees' complete abandonment of spirituality in favor of political intrigue that led to the destruction that Jesus predicted.

We see the same thing in the postChristian churches today. Religion is merely a superstition that is invoked to garner support from the superstitious to further the political aspirations of the priesthood. The Communitarians resemble nothing so much as a political action group.

Remember, during the Reign of Terror during the French revolution, certain statements and beliefs were "counterrevolutionary," and could get one guillotined. Since the days of Section 156, the Communitarian Church is exactly the same, only the term substituted for "counterrevolutionary" is "politically incorrect." In a postChristian church, it is as dangerous to teach what the Bible says as it was in revolutionary France.

Reading Ann Coulter's book "Demonic," calls to mind the political activists who drove conservative speakers off campus who had come to offer a dissenting opinion on homosexuality. While it is doubtful that Ms. Coulter has ever heard of Graceland University, the Community of Christ, or the action taken against the speakers -- action heartily approved of by GALA, which has official approval from the CofC to act and speak in its name -- Ms. Coulter perfectly describes the tactics of the political action committee that has taken over the RLDS church.

I have never read anything by Coulter before, so I was kind of amazed to see that see perceives the same sort of thing going on that I do.

I was particularly interested in her notice of the fact that, when violence actually does occur, it is committed by liberals; but the liberals all claim that they are in fear of violence from conservatives, even though the few perpetrators of violence who are identified as conservatives, actually turn out to be far, far to the left. The false accusations and insinuations of violence hit a chord with me. After all, I remember when the lockouts of local congregations were being discussed, and a liberal member of the CofC priesthood insisted that the lockouts referred to locking the main buildings in Independence in fear of attacks by those upset about Section 156. This was a deliberated attempt to mislead nonmembers unfamiliar with the real chain of events.

If anyone knows of conservatives or Restorationists showing up at the Auditorium, throwing the hierarchy out into the street, and selling the building out from under them, please let me know, because a tally of who has really done what to whom is in order. Have any conservative or Restorationist students at Graceland ever chased any leftist or prohomosexual radicals off campus? Have any Restorationists ever successfully deposed a sitting President and subsituted one of their number in his place? In fact, have they ever even attempted such?

You know, when Grant McMurray announced that he had violated the bylaws of the church and allowed homosexuals to be ordained, he could have been sued just as easily as the president of a Rotary Club could be sued for breaking the bylaws of the club. But no conservative or Restorationist member(s) of the church ever did that.

It seems that those awful, "hatemongering" conservatives are pretty namby-pamby compared to the leadership of the Communitarian Church, and of its officially sanctioned organizations, like GALA.

If you want to understand the Community of Christ, one must stop studying RLDS scripture and history, and start studying the history of radical leftism in the U.S. After all, it was the organizer of the Sandanista secret police under the communist govenment of Nicaragua whom Wallace B. Smith invited to speak on "peace" at the Kirtland Temple. There are plenty of conservative orthodox Christians who could have been invited to speak, but Christianity unseasoned by marxist rhetoric upsets the Communitarian stomach.

George

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