[TruthTalk] Geography of Never Never land

[jandgtaylor1]

From: "Blaine Borrowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Blaine:  A doormat?  I find it ludicrous that anyone even said that in the first place, and the response as described in your friend's comments sounds more like a group of zombies who see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil, mainly because they are braindead!!  NO group of Mormon women would react that way.   Judy: Blaine, again she is not my friend, just the author of a book called "The Mormon Mirage" and a former Mormon herself.  Below are some customer ratings of her book and it's still available at Amazon.  I agree that any woman who would put up with this kind of a system is acting braindead but spiritual deception can happen to any of us   Average Customer Rating: The Mormon Mirage: A Former Mormon Tells Why She Left the Church > Customer Review #1: The Mormon Mirage--a must read For an informative, balanced review of Mormonism and Christianity, I highly recommend this book. It is very readable and interesting. Perhaps the best of its kind. The Mormon Mirage: A Former Mormon Tells Why She Left the Church > Customer Review #2: Despite the title, this is the best book to read I read this book when it first came out, and since have read a great many more on Mormonism. It is the best one out, and Zondervan should re-issue it a.s.a.p. Scott is a skilled prose writer, the story is heartfelt, and the theological/historical critique dead-on. I dont think it going to far to call this one a minor evangelical "classic." Nowhere near as thorough as the Tanners work, but somehow just as powerful in its overall effect. As for the reviewer who said Scott failed to mention her missionary ex-boyfriend, he needs to go back to the book-that parts in there as well. The Mormon Mirage: A Former Mormon Tells Why She Left the Church > Customer Review #3: An insight from a family member To those of you who do not have the privilage to know Latayne. She is my loving mother-in-law. And I have to tell you that before I married into the family, I could see that Latayne is not holding any grudges of the Mormon Church. In fact, she is the only person I know that does not hold a single grudge of anyone. She loves Mormons...because they are good people and they were her family growing up. So before some of you who are so negative and grudgeful yourselves pass judgement on someone like Latayne who has only given her own account, maybe you should pluck the plank out of you own eye first.   The Mormon Mirage: A Former Mormon Tells Why She Left the Church > Related Products         There are some women in the polygamous communities of Colorado City, CO and Hillsdale, UT who might react that way.  They seem to be brainwashed to the extreme judging from what I have read recently. You are invited to attend a Mormon meeting sometime with my wife and I, if you ever get to Utah.  You will see that active LDS women are generally among the best educated and most intelligent people you will find about anywhere.  Utah has one of the highest ratios of students graduating from Universities of all 50 states.      Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 5:46 AM Subject: [TruthTalk] Geography of Never Never land     Blaine and DaveH: What say ye about all of this? Who is the great nation referred to in your holy writ?  This has nothing at all to do with the resurrected Christ because these names have no part in His genealogy.   To me it all sounds like the kind of fables referred to in 1 Timothy 1:4: "Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies which minister questions rather than godly edifying which is in faith - so do" along with   2 Timothy 4:3,4 "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears; and they shall turn away from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.   Actually I can see why men who are walking after the flesh would like your religion; it caters to the male ego and the women are subjugated. I was just reading an excerpt from a book called The Mormon Mirage written by Latayne Scott and reflecting on the role of women in Mormonism - from her own experience she writes: "I was once sitting in a Relief Society meeting when the speaker made an attention-getting remark. In explaining the relationship of husband and wife she said "Women are the doormats upon which men wipe their feet before going in to God" ... she continues "I was stunned. I looked open mouthed at my friends in the room. Surely someone else was as outraged about this as I - but all around me young women were nodding in contemplation and agreement...."   Judy