Temples
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[edit] Why expose temple ceremonies?
[edit] Evangelicals want to expose the deeper meaning of the ceremony
What the temple means to Mormons is not what it more ultimately means.
[edit] The ceremony includes covenants and oaths that people should be able to review before making
[edit] The temple ceremony has masonic connections that are worth publicly illuminating
[edit] Christians recognize by the Holy Spirit that the ceremony is of the spirit of darkness
A baby-Christian with the Holy Spirit who has never been through the temple can understand more about the true nature of their temple ceremony than a person who has been a veil worker for 40 years. The ceremony is of the spirit of darkness, and should be exposed, and the Holy Spirit communicates that to me in a number of different ways. Mormons, we are essentially calling on you to learn form us Spirit-led Christians about the true nature of what you have been experiencing for decades. Why? Because the Spirit is more trustworthy, especially in the revealed testimony of scripture.
[edit] Christians feel a duty to be malicious toward false religions
- "If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed." -J. Reuben Clark, D. Michael Quinn: The Church Years. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1983, p. 24.
[edit] Objections
[edit] Isn't public exposure of the ceremonies akin to pornography?
[edit] Doesn't public exposure of the ceremonies prevent people from understanding their true meaning?
[edit] Isn't it rude to expose what people in other cultures find private and intimate?
Put in another way,
- "If some culture had a gesture shared between husbands and wives which was alien and meaningless to our culture but private and intimate to them, it seems rude to film a reproduction."
[edit] Aren't people just doing this for humor and entertainment value?
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