I think you're too focused on Mitt. Yeah he worked as a Wall Streeter, his first boss knew the Rothschilds, yeah his company may have laundered drug profits or other dirty money from Central America, yeah he was apparently photographed getting off a plane in Cuba, yeah he would have started a war in Syria already.......... but are we going to judge all pot-luck-macaroni-and-jello Mormons based on him? I thought the plan was strong families, patriarchal culture, honor among adhrents, and tribal cohesiveness? Aren't those the standards that you have discussed on other threads? Based on those standards, I would say Mormonism is the top "religion" for Non-Jewish Whites.fschmidt wrote:Do you have enough personal experience with Mormonism to judge it? How did it produce a monster like Mitt Romney? Or is he just a freak exception?
Mormonism would be a plus 10 if I wasn't a Christian.
If you are actually looking for a religion offering spiritual comfort and a relationship with God, then I guess Mormonism would drop way down, below every other branch of Christianity.
Good question. Really the tribal thing. It's bigger, I can go more places. I joined the Catholic church at a time when I needed a priest to talk with and a service where the liturgy was in English so I could learn and get sustenance from it.fschmidt wrote:Why do you prefer Catholicism to Orthodox Christianity?
I'm Catholic, more or less, but Catholicism is still only a 5, socially speaking.
Like you I am still looking for a community wherein I can bond and raise a family.
Orthodox churches are fragmented by ethnicity, calendar, and other doctrinal issues. The doctrinal issues are laughably silly. But you hve to pretty much choose one and go with it. I would be happy at ANY Orthodox(Russian, Greek, Old calendar greek, Bulgarian, etc etc) or "Oriental" (Armenian, Ethiopian, Coptic, Syriac) church, if I had a wife there or was in some way accepted by the community.
Any church that recites the Apostles Creed and believes it, and accepts the historicity of the Old and New Testaments, is fine with me.
Protestant churches are fine with me too, but they tend to be intolerant perfectionists, less open-minded than Catholics or Armenians. Intolerant of concubines and polygamy, intolerant of violence, intolerant of patriarchy. Plus they censor the Bible and try to browbeat you into their Procrustean interpretation. Plus they quote Paul more than Jesus (or Moses). BUT, as we all know, SOME Pentecostals ("charismatics") are VERY full of the Holy Spirit and are very discerning and good at spiritual warfare. So I would be OK with such a place IF my family and I GET something for our time and money.
BTW...One area where ALL evangelicals, including Pentecostals, are GREAT , is in getting people SAVED and going to Heaven, getting them baptised in the Blood of the Lamb. So if I were advising YOU, I might put a good evangelical church at the top of the list. I'm already born-again ("saved"), and yes it was an evangelical Christian lady that "led me to the Lord."
But you can do the same thing through another church, if you find a priest or a nun who will work with you and lead you to the Lord. You can probably then lead the rest of your family to the Lord.