Neues und Altes von den Mormonen:
Erich Kopischke (aus meiner Heimatstadt!) im Telegraph:
„Door-knocking is sometimes understood as aggressive proselytising.“
No shit, Sherlock! Deswegen findet er Facebook total klasse.
Huffington Post: Utah „libealisiert“ sex education und erlaubt es Schulen, den Lehrern vorzuschreiben, ob sie über Verhütung und Homosexualität sprechen dürfen. Bei Bedarf kann das Fach auch ganz gestrichen werden.
„I would hope as we make this decision, that we won't think if we say abstinence only, that fairy dust will have been sprinkled and that teen pregnancy will no longer be a problem,“ [Republican state Rep. Francis] Gibson said.
Born evil, und das gleich doppelt: als Frau und halbe Indianerin bei den Mormonen.
After gulping a couple of times, she said something like "but Neeta here is a Lamanite (the Book of Mormon's name for the descendants of Laman, who was cursed with dark skin for displeasing god) and we welcome her. They too, if they work very hard can go to the Celestial Kingdom." That being the highest of the three kingdoms in heaven. I was told that if I made it to the Celestial Kingdom my skin would turn light.
Interessanterweise wurde 1981 die entsprechende Passage im Buch Mormon verändert. Aus „white and delightsome“ wurde „pure and delightsome“:
Some Mormons insist that this was a clarification since the word was never meant to refer to a person with dark skin pigmentation who would magically turn white based upon a conversion to the Mormon gospel; rather, it is claimed that the change referred to a cleaner state of heart. This assumption is definitely not supported in the Book of Mormon since 2 Nephi 5:21 says,
„And he had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, and they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them.“
Man beachte auch die abgebildeten Action-Figuren, obwohl der Laman mit dem Curse of Cain offenbar inzwischen aus dem Programm genommen wurde.