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Culture Wars : WE ALL ARE MORMONS - Rabbi Shifren
Posted by David Virtue on 2008/11/21 9:10:00 (5361 reads)

WE ALL ARE MORMONS

by Rabbi Shifren
http://www.lawatchdog.com/RabbiShifren-WeAreAllMormons112008.html
November 21, 2008

We are living in an era of insanity. Witness the latest attempt to remake the nature of our country, founded and established on certain principles that have been the envy of the entire world. The latest assault on our country and its values comes in the form of vicious and criminal violence against the Mormon church in Westwood, California

Interesting how the selective self-righteous indignation on the part of the radical Gay activists is played out here: they bewail the blow to freedom and justice. But I thought we just had elections, where the majority of Californians expressed their views in a free and open manner.

Are we not a nation of laws? Dare we relive the McCarthy era, where Americans were harassed and threatened with the loss of their jobs for believing in a certain way? If the Gay radicals should have their way, untold numbers of Americans would live under the threat of the Gay-Lesbian "thought police," where individuals that reject the Gay lifestyle would be sought out and have sanctions brought against them.

It's bad enough for those working in the entertainment industry here in Los Angeles, where a fog of political correctness and a bending over backwards to accommodate, even promote Gay lifestyle is in full gear. Let none dare say that this type of activity is anathema to our country, our morality, and the debauchery of our young people.

Let it be stated unequivocally: The radical Gay attack on the Mormons is the shot over the bow against the United States of America. There was a time when what a man did in his bedroom was sanctified between himself and G-d. Now we are being served an "in-your-face" smorgasbord of smut and licentiousness as being between people who only "want their civil rights."

Hogwash. We are dealing with the equivalent of a moral takeover of the country that has as its bedrock a belief in G-d and His promise for humanity. They don't want civil rights. What they desire is quasi Gay/Lesbian hegemony, where a huge "bookburning," reminiscent of the Nazis, will purge any remnants of the "Christian, White, mainstream America" that has given ALL AMERICANS the most profound scope of freedom, liberty, and justice that Mankind has yet to experience.

People have perhaps wondered: why the Mormons? Answer: they are a small, yet vocal Christian minority. They have been selected by the mobs as vulnerable, a group that might not have such massive support among America's Christians.

We who are friends of the Mormons, their patriotism, their family values, will not falter in our continued support of these dear Americans. Let us recall the Christian minister Niemoller, whose admonition during those dark years of Nazi Germany moved us to our core:

"When they came for the gypsies, I said nothing, because I wasn't a gypsy. When they came for the homosexuals, I said nothing, because I wasn't a homosexual. When they came for the Jews, I said nothing, because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I said nothing, because I wasn't a Catholic......then they came for me, and there was no one left to defend me."

"My fellow Americans, in the coming battle for the heart and soul of America and everything we cherish, may this call to arms be the mantra of every concerned patriot: "WE ALL ARE MORMONS!"

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Cennydd
Posted: 2008/11/21 15:52  Updated: 2008/11/21 15:52
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 Re: WE ALL ARE MORMONS - Rabbi Shifren
The good rabbi is right!

Now let's see what Susan Russell and her Integrity bunch have to say about this.

I think we're in for a long wait.

Cennydd
patulous
Posted: 2008/11/22 14:32  Updated: 2008/11/22 14:33
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 Re: WE ALL ARE MORMONS - Rabbi Shifren
I find Rabbi Shifren's abreviation of God (G-d) a little disturbing.....the abreviaton is of two things: g-d lower case means good. G-d using capitalization on the letter "G" means gadolinium, a magnetic metallic element .

I am wondering if the good Rabbi is still using the old Hebrew thought that you can not call or say God's name, in any form.

Just the same Rabbi, this is a good article.
lkwells
Posted: 2008/11/22 14:57  Updated: 2008/11/22 14:57
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 Re: WE ALL ARE MORMONS - Rabbi Shifren
Yes, it is a very good article, Patulous. But the Rabbi's rendition (it's not properly called an abbreviation) of God as G-d is customary among observant Jews. This is an imitation of the practice of writing in Hebrew the Ineffable Name of God as YHWH, without vowels, instead of the less reverent "Yahweh." It is purely an act of reverence on the Rabbi's part and is no more disturbing than our rendering "Christmas" as "Xmas."
An Jew who writes out "God" would probably disagree with the article.
patulous
Posted: 2008/11/22 17:25  Updated: 2008/11/22 17:25
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 Re: WE ALL ARE MORMONS - Rabbi Shifren
Ikwells: I think you agreed with me; you used a similar reasoning. Not saying the name of God would be more reverent.
rfeichel
Posted: 2008/11/22 21:16  Updated: 2008/11/22 21:16
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 Re: WE ALL ARE MORMONS - Rabbi Shifren
I think to quibble over how the rabbi uses the name of the divine is to miss the entire point of the article. Whether or not you agree theologically with the Mormons or not is not material you (we) need to come to their defense so that our own house and beliefs may be preserved. We may well end up like the Native Americans, not allowed to practice our language and beliefs for many many years.
Cennydd
Posted: 2008/11/23 22:17  Updated: 2008/11/23 22:18
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 Re: WE ALL ARE MORMONS - Rabbi Shifren
Isn't it interesting how "the Rev." Susan Russell and her Integrity crowd have chosen not to respond to Rabbi Shifren's article?

Cennydd
PatriotSon
Posted: 2008/11/23 22:18  Updated: 2008/11/23 22:18
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 Re: WE ALL ARE MORMONS - Rabbi Shifren
Ready – Fire – Aim??

Isn’t this like chasing the train after it left the station? Of course Hollywood is dysfunctional, but homosexuality has been “mainstreamed” by much larger forces in society. The biggest contributor to the No on 8 campaign was the CALIFORNIA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION.

My beloved, your tax dollars are being used to undermine the values passed down to us by this nation’s founding fathers. Why do you think that their ideas are no longer taught in the public schools? Freedom of thought was of prime importance to the founding fathers, but they also recognized that Godly morality was critical to self-government. “If it feels good, do it” passes for the moral law of this day.

Don’t you understand that tyranny can exist without having a particular tyrant? All that is required is government suppression of free ideas in the name of “tolerance” or some other virtue the liberals want us to exhibit. Critical thinking and debate have been all but outlawed. For nearly two centuries we have wrongly placed our trust in government to educate our children. Now we see what happens when the interest group running it decides they are more powerful than the parents.

Last year, it was Terry Schaivo. This year, homosexuality. Next year, abortion rights? Property ownership? Euthanasia of the elderly? Don’t you see, we who argue these issues knowing the truth, are at odds with those who attack the existence of truth itself. It should be a surprise to us that the perverted are using this opportunity to crawl out from under their rocks?

The Rabbi’s call to arms sounds appealing, but how does the Minuteman grab his musket in this case? Sure, stick up for the Mormons right now. But the Redcoats are a little harder to see in this era. As my 17-year-old son just astutely pointed out, “Since when do we go to war and give half our supplies to the enemy?”

PatriotSon
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