I have some great friends who are Mormon and every time I find out something new about what they believe I think "REALLY?!? You seem like a smart person! How on earth could you believe THAT?! I am also a bit of a sci-fi geek and I watch Stargate SG-1 a lot. I have seen some things on Startgate that seem very similar to the Mormon beliefs. And actually the Ori ( the bad guys on the show) are a little MORE believable. Both the Ori and the Mormons offer Ascension to there followers. As in if you believe in this who-ha you will someday become a god.
They are both very organised and united in the fact that they teach the same thing at the same time to all who believe. The Ori have a big stick with a blue crystal on the end that glows and tells the prior (who is like a prophet of the Ori... kind of like this Morman group) what to teach the believers and the Mormons make sure every church is teaching the each same lessons and giving the same message to every believer every single week. I can see how those things might be tempting to believe. Here is where it gets a little fuzzy for me.
The Mormons also believe that the temple in Utah is a place where God himself actually comes down in a BODY and walks around. I want to know if they have a stargate in there!
They think you can convert your dead relatives to Mormonism.
The Mormons also believe that if they wear the special underwear that they are protected from all evil. Check out this video.
MMMmmmm HHHmmmmm.... Hallowed are the Mormon underpants.
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I don't even really know what to say- I don't watch Stargate. But I think this is funny. Special underpants?
For a "Mormon". LOL the undergarments that are different DO NOT protect us from evil. They don't. They are only there to remind us of the promises that we have made between our Heavenly Father and ourselves. Some people (Even some "Mormons" are psycho)
As for converting after death, if you don't believe in afterlife and that you can make choices there... then that really doesn't make sense does it? :D
And yes we believe God has a Body... that doesn't mean we all get to see it :P
take all this how you will. Different things are good for different people.
I'm a convert to Mormonism and the doctrine is no stranger than many other doctrines we have in common with our fellow Christians and with Jews. For example, sacred vestments were had from since ancient times with priests wearing vestments in the temples. The doctrine of the premortal existence of man, once an exclusively Mormon doctrine, has found its way into life after life stories where people die and come back saying they were told that our lives on Earth are but a sojourn, and that after death we return to where we existed before.
In the end, everyone has strange beliefs, but the Mormons have some peculiar beliefs that when put together make a lot of sense.
As for sci-fi shows, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA was written largely by a Mormon and many tidbits have found their way into both shows.
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