jho@ihuxn.UUCP (Yosi Hoshen) (01/30/85)
Last night, the Chicago Christian TV, channel 38 aired an anti-
Mormon propaganda piece. The propaganda movie was described as
a "documentary", yet, it was not a documentary. It was one sided
and inflammatory. It had implicit suggestions that Mormonism is
somehow tied to Satanism. I will list now some of the points that were
raised by the program:
1. The Mormons cannot prove their religious claims.*
2. Mormons brainwash their members.
3. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is
a false religion inconsistent with Christianity.
4. Mormon teenagers tend to be more suicidal.
5. The Mormon Church persecutes those members who step
out of line.
6. The CJCLDS breaks up families, if some members of the
family reject the church teaching.
7. The Mormon church strives for world domination.
The problem is not just what the program said but how it said it.
It made a sensation out of any Mormon activity. It tried to
scare the viewers of those horrible people. To sum up the
the program was a pure religious incitement against another group
of people with whom the evangelical Christians do not agree.
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*I find the fundamentalists claims remarkable: The Mormons cannot
prove the truthfulness of the Mormon religion, and that
they brainwash people. Can the fundamentalists prove their religion?
Are they not trying to brainwash the viewers of CBN. There is a Hebrew
saying: "The camel cannot see its hump", which describes very well
the situation.
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Yosi Hoshen, Bell Laboratories
Naperville, Illinois, (312)-979-7321, Mail: ihnp4!ihuxn!jho