Are Mormons going to kill us?

Ok, I was reading the Skepitc's annotated book of mormon for a laugh and found this not so funny:

26:19 And it shall come to pass, that those who have dwindled in unbelief shall be smitten by the hand of the Gentiles.
{God will get the Gentiles to kill all those who "dwindle in unbelief."}


It's in the book of Nephi.
Should I no longer answer the door to these crazy people?

P.S: yes I was bored and didnt know much about Mormons so I thought I might do some reading.

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Permalink Reply by Aaron S. (USA) on May 2, 2010 at 4:24pm
What's really scary is "Blood Atonement". Most Mormons don't even know about it, since it's in the Journal of Discourses, but Brigham Young said that if someone commits a sin against the Holy Ghost (like premarital sex or murder) the only way for them to be forgiven by Jesus is to die by having their blood spilled. Luckily, as I said, most Mormons don't know about it, and hopefully wouldn't take their religion that seriously anyway....
Permalink Reply by Prog Rock Girl on May 2, 2010 at 4:28pm
When I read about FLDS, I think Warren Jeffs was talking about getting enough money and privacy to be able to do it.
Permalink Reply by Jezzy on May 2, 2010 at 4:41pm
Brigham Young's grandson was convicted of killing a woman in New York (who solicited sex), and there was some rumors of the idea of "Blood Atonement" going around with that.

Actually we had a discussion in one of my classes, since there's apparently no such thing as separating church and state here, and some people said that if the prophet ordered them to kill themselves, they probably would. A lot of them said no though. Which is a good call anyways since he's hella old...
Permalink Reply by Cynical Soldier on May 2, 2010 at 5:21pm
Would be funny/tragic if they did. The Mormon version of Jonestown; they'd catch a firestorm of bad publicity.
Permalink Reply by Cynical Soldier on May 2, 2010 at 5:09pm
Everyone picks and chooses pieces of their Faith to follow, while at the same time claiming not to. The world would be a scarier place if they didn't, however. My attitude always was: If you can't/won't/shouldn't follow all of it, why follow any of it? I told this to my father and he labeled me "extremist". I stated to him how that was possible, since that's really the only "correct" way to follow a religion in the first place. Don't get me wrong, I'm an anti-theist and I hate religion, but how does it make any sense to only follow some parts of a faith if you believe all of it to be true? Religion is a headache.
Permalink Reply by Prog Rock Girl on May 25, 2010 at 11:20am
Only makes sense in that if a religion is contradictory, there is no way to follow all of it.
Permalink Reply by booklover on May 14, 2012 at 3:06pm

I TOTALLY agree with you Cynical Soldier.  I have always thought that.  Either believe it or don't.  How can they choose some things and not others.  So dumb.  So blind.  So full of crap.

Permalink Reply by Patricia on May 2, 2010 at 5:22pm
It's all such a crock isn't it? And what a waste of time & life!

Permalink Reply by Cynical Soldier on May 2, 2010 at 5:25pm
A sad and unnecessary one the affects not just those who choose to believe it, but those who chose not to (or not to care).
Permalink Reply by Jim DePaulo on May 5, 2010 at 6:53pm
It's all organized and institution stupidity. It's hard to take them serious until they start talking about smiting the unbelievers and infidels - then they become real scary.
What a shitty affliction on our species.
Permalink Reply by Tak G. on May 10, 2010 at 3:23pm
Mormons are such creepers.
Permalink Reply by SecularBob on May 10, 2010 at 6:25pm
Bravo on reading the book of Mormons. i found it to be one of the weirdest religious text. I am glad to see that people read the books that others have faith in. It is not fair to argue against theism without knowing in detail what you are up against. Besides some of the religious text are quite good fiction.

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