Christine Hubbs, a faithful Mormon mother, was charged with 67 counts of unlawful sex with minors. She is alleged to have slept with two neighborhood boys on numerous occasions. Her Mormon friends are shocked.
What does her faith have to do with her actions? Nothing. Being a Mormon does not help one be good. We make that choice ourselves.
I don’t pick on the LDS much. They seem to run a much tighter operations then Baptists or Catholics. Still, I wonder what rational the reporter has for bring up Hubbs’ faith? We know by now that faith does not make you less likely to commit an egregious act. So why mention it?
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Godlessons 33p · 772 weeks ago
Having grown up in a Mormon family, and in Utah, I have to say that Mormons do have a Catholic church like affinity for hiding their individual improprieties.
The first time I realized this is when I was a kid. A neighbor, who was about my age, molested a 6 year old girl in the neighborhood. When we outed him, he immediately went to his parents and told them what he had done. Their response was to take him to the bishop, who then went to the family of the girl and somehow talked them out of calling the police. Instead they dealt with it "in house".
Three days later, the kid then had the nerve to tell me that it was my fault that he did what he did because I let him watch porn. He said he had been forgiven for what he did, but I was going to hell.
I guess he forgot that Mormons don't believe in hell.
Anyway, that was the first of many of those types of things I have seen happen. I would have to say that protecting a child molester is the worst, but I'm sure I would have been privy to even more had I not stopped going to church when I was 14.
Now, I would bet that you will never hear, "A Baptist mother of three was charged with sexual..." That is most likely because it isn't seen to be that abnormal, since there isn't any organized cover-up.
john · 772 weeks ago
Godlessons 33p · 772 weeks ago
43 Who glorifies the Father, and saves all the works of his hands, except those sons of perdition who deny the Son after the Father has revealed him.
44 Wherefore, he saves all except them—they shall go away into everlasting punishment, which is endless punishment, which is eternal punishment, to reign with the devil and his angels in eternity, where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched, which is their torment—
45 And the end thereof, neither the place thereof, nor their torment, no man knows;
The hell referred to in the Bible is not merely reserved to "Sons of perdition". Further, outer darkness is not a place of burning, it is a place of darkness.
And it's not just a regular belief that gets you put there. You have to have actual knowledge, not just faith, and then deny Christ.
Murderers don't go there either, which is the only other sin that Mormons believe is unforgivable besides denying Jesus. They go to the Telestial kingdom.
So, take me seriously or not, I don't particularly care.