Mormons attack other faiths!

Check out this Letter to the Editor I found today.  How are the LDS apologists going to explain this?

[From HJNews.com]

Since the release of the DVD titled, “Jesus Christ/Joseph Smith,” I have read many news articles proclaiming the LDS Church does not attack other religions. Even so far as to claim it has always sought an ecumenical association with all other Christian churches.

However, their cries against those who correctly cite and reference the LDS Church’s own history and doctrine as slanderous misrepresentations should take note of what many of the leaders of the LDS Church have said about other Christian faiths:

“I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt …” Joseph Smith History 1:19

“Both Catholics and Protestants are nothing less than the ‘whore of Babylon’… Any person who shall be so corrupt as to receive a holy ordinance of the Gospel from the ministers of any of these apostate churches will be sent down to hell with them, unless they repent.” — Orson Pratt, The Seer, p.255

“Every spirit that confesses that Joseph Smith is a Prophet, that he lived and died a Prophet and that the Book of Mormon is true, is of God, and every spirit that does not is of anti-Christ.” — Brigham Young, History of the Church (vol.7, p.287)

President Joseph Fielding Smith stated that there is “no salvation without accepting Joseph Smith. If Joseph Smith was verily a prophet, and if he told the truth … No man can reject that testimony without incurring the most dreadful consequences, for he cannot enter the kingdom of God.” (Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 1, pp.189-90).

“In bearing testimony of Jesus Christ, President Hinckley spoke of those outside the church who say Latter-day Saints ‘do not believe in the traditional Christ.’ ‘No. I don’t. The traditional Christ of whom they speak is not the Christ of whom I speak. For the Christ of whom I speak has been revealed in this the Dispensation of the Fulness of Times.’” — Prophet Gordon B. Hinckley, LDS Church News, June 20, 1998, p.7

I believe the history of the LDS Church speaks volumes of not only their willingness to attack Christian churches but to also act the true role of a bully and coward who after attacking an opponent cries foul when receiving any deserved retribution.

Christopher Barnes

Logan, UT

[From me]

Try to convince me now that they are Christians.