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Mormon Church Goes After WikiLeaks

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the for-once-its-not-the-scientologists dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Mormon Church has instructed its lawyers to gag the Internet over WikiLeaks' release of the 1968 and 1999 versions of its confidential handbook for Church leaders. Apart from attacking WikiLeaks, legal demands were sent to Jimmy Wales of the WikiMedia foundation for a WikiNews article merely linking to the material, and scribd.com has also been censored. WikiLeaks has (of course) refused to remove the documents."

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  1. Anonymous Attacks FLDS by Jizzbug · · Score: 0, Redundant

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  2. Re:Inevitably.. by HeronBlademaster · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Please explain to me what about my beliefs is unchristian?

    Explain what, exactly, is unchristian about this:

    "And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins." (2 Nephi 25:26)

    The definition of "Christian" is "of, pertaining to, believing in, or belonging to the religion based on the teachings of Jesus Christ". The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is most definitely based on the teachings of Jesus Christ in every way, and looks to Christ and no other for salvation, and is therefore Christian.

    Notice that nowhere in the definition of "Christian" does it say "agrees with the Catholic [or Lutheran or Baptist etc] Church on all (or even any) points of doctrine". A lack of agreement on some doctrinal issues does not mean I'm Christian and a Catholic is not, or vice versa.