Re: Hinckley gone, and I'm not rejoicing

On Jan 30, 5:53 pm, Father of Peace <srm2...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

I'll be honest I was left scratching my head after this post...


> I don't vote, because I believe I am banned by mormonism
> from using government to impose my religious beliefs on
> peaceable non-believers.

You not voting is your choice and by not voting the things you might
sup****t will NEVER come to pass. There are many times when issues get
shot down for years and then finally enough people sup****t the idea it
p*****.


> Mormons are dissuaded by doctrine, history, and scripture from

As are Catholic, Lutherans, Muslims and for that matter atheists. Our
mind set and out belief system has been set by our experiences and
what we have learned. Mormons in Utah are no different than Baptists
in the South.

> using the violence inherent in government  to coerce
> peaceable non-believers to obey the mormon commandments.

You use the word coerce pretty loosely here. I'm not sure how my
voting for something, is forcing anything on anyone. That is why we
vote to express our view and the view of the majority should win out.

> So mormons aught to be less willing than any other people
> on the face of the Earth to vote for a smoking ban.

Your logic here makes no sense. If Mormons "coerce" people to obey
Mormon commandments then why would they be less willing to vote for a
smoking ban when Smoking is "against our religion".



>
> The founding mythology of mormonism teaches that
> Lucifer's plan of salvation involved coercion, and that
> Christ's plan involved freedom of choice. I believe that
> a person is not living mormonism who
> votes to use the coercion of government in order
> to oppress the actions of peaceable
> non-believers.

So do you believe that God uses coercion to keep us in line? There are
punishments for not being obedient to his commandments.

John