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Posted
15 hours ago, MiserereNobis said:
Jeffress leads a 12,000-member megachurch in Dallas and is a frequent guest on Fox News. But to many Americans, he may be best known for his frequent condemnations of Mormonism as a "cult" during the 2012 presidential campaign. He urged Christians not to vote for Mitt Romney, a Mormon, during the Republican primary. He later supported Romney over President Barack Obama. 
Jeffress has also called Islam and Mormonism heresies "from the pit of hell," suggested that the Catholic church was led astray by Satan, accused Obama of "paving the way" for the Antichrist and spread false statistics about the prevalence of HIV among gays, who he said live a "miserable" and "filthy" lifestyle.
In recent years, Jeffress has frequently denounced Islam, calling it an "evil religion" that "promotes pedophilia" because the Prophet Muhammed married a 9-year-old girl. (Many modern Muslim scholars disagree about her age.) The pastor has also said that Mormons, Muslims and Hindus "worship a false god."

Most bible believing Christians would say that he is quite accurate in his critique.....no matter how offensive.

Posted
16 minutes ago, The Nehor said:

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Love XKCD. I actually used this question at the dinner table with my kids last week. By the end of the discussion, all but one of my kids had changed their minds to say they would follow their friends. We decided that most of the time, peer pressure is actually a really good thing. That's why it's so important to choose good peers. 

Posted
10 hours ago, Teancum said:

He's also anti-Catholic, so we're all in good company :)

I thought that the BOM and the brethren had agreed that the Catholic church was the Church of Satan....no?

Posted
2 minutes ago, snowflake said:

Most bible believing Christians would say that he is quite accurate in his critique.....no matter how offensive.

Um, I think Catholics are the largest group of "bible believing Christians." 

Posted
Just now, snowflake said:

I thought that the BOM and the brethren had agreed that the Catholic church was the Church of Satan....no?

That's just the McConkities. Most members have let go of that awful idea. Thankfully, most members in my area never heard it.

Posted
28 minutes ago, Buckeye said:

In all seriousness, though, I'm confident that President Trump paid next to no attention to either Jeffress or the Choir.

I beg to differ. 

While the choir was singing, I saw on TV him mouthing the word "America" as the choir sang it. He seemed visibly moved to me. YMMV. 

Posted (edited)
2 hours ago, Buckeye said:

In all seriousness, though, I'm confident that President Trump paid next to no attention to either Jeffress or the Choir.

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Posted
8 minutes ago, snowflake said:

Most bible believing Christians would say that he is quite accurate in his critique.....no matter how offensive.

No one who takes the Bible seriously would say it. 

Posted
2 minutes ago, Scott Lloyd said:

I beg to differ. 

While the choir was singing, I saw on TV him mouthing the word "America" as the choir sang it. He seemed visibly moved to me. YMMV. 

We'll have to differ, then. I watched the same clip live. He seemed nervous and distracted to me, not really paying attention. And that shouldn't be surprising since he was about to be sworn in.

Posted (edited)
10 minutes ago, Buckeye said:

We'll have to differ, then. I watched the same clip live. He seemed nervous and distracted to me, not really paying attention. And that shouldn't be surprising since he was about to be sworn in.

If you didn't see him mouthing "America," you didn't see the shot I saw (NBC coverage). It was very clear and obvious. And I was watching live as well. 

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Posted
15 hours ago, MiserereNobis said:

In recent years, Jeffress has frequently denounced Islam, calling it an "evil religion" that "promotes pedophilia" because the Prophet Muhammed married a 9-year-old girl. (Many modern Muslim scholars disagree about her age.) The pastor has also said that Mormons, Muslims and Hindus "worship a false god."

 

I believe Mulims prefer to say she was married "several months before her 10th birthday..."

Posted
47 minutes ago, Buckeye said:

That's just the McConkities. Most members have let go of that awful idea. Thankfully, most members in my area never heard it.

What church do you think the BOM refers to in 1 Nephi as the "great and abominable church".....I was raised on it being the Catholics.

Posted
6 hours ago, cdowis said:

I doubt that the subject of the Mormons will come up.  Even then, Trump is smart enough to ignore it, considering all of the criticisms and hate rhetoric he has himself been subjected to.

It was his choice to get a pastor who is well known for his condemnation of others.  Not like there aren't tons of others available.

Posted
16 minutes ago, Scott Lloyd said:

Same old story. Outsiders presuming to define out doctrine for us. 

And he said unto me: Behold there are save two churches only; the one is the church of the Lamb of God, and the other is the church of the devil; wherefore, whoso belongeth not to the church of the Lamb of God belongeth to that great church, which is the mother of abominations; and she is the whore of all the earth. (1 Nephi 14:10

So the LDS church is the church of the Lamb of God.....whoever belongeth not the the LDS church is the whore of all the earth.....I got it.

And I thought that mean Jeffress was being intolerant.....cough.....cough....right.

Posted
5 minutes ago, JAHS said:

Well he didn't mention Mormon's; unless you count the part where he spoke about Trump's critics. Here's the sermon:

Robert Jeffrees sermon

Thanks for the link.  That was quite a fawning flattering sermon.  I'm sure Trump's ego just ate it up (maybe that's why he chose Jeffreess):

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Today─one year later─God has raised you and Vice-President-elect Pence up for a great, eternal purpose.

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President-elect Trump, you, Vice President-elect Pence, and your team have been called by God

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Mr. President-elect, I don’t believe we have ever had a president with as many natural gifts as you.

I wonder what previous inaugural sermons have been like.  I wonder who Romney would have chosen to give it and what that person would have said.

 

Posted
2 minutes ago, snowflake said:

And he said unto me: Behold there are save two churches only; the one is the church of the Lamb of God, and the other is the church of the devil; wherefore, whoso belongeth not to the church of the Lamb of God belongeth to that great church, which is the mother of abominations; and she is the whore of all the earth. (1 Nephi 14:10

So the LDS church is the church of the Lamb of God.....whoever belongeth not the the LDS church is the whore of all the earth.....I got it.

And I thought that mean Jeffress was being intolerant.....cough.....cough....right.

No, even those in the LDS church can be in the Church of the Devil. Just as those in other churches, or those that have never even heard of Jesus, can be in the Church of the Lamb of God.

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