I always wanted to be six feet, four inches tall.
When asked how tall I am, I often tell them that I am 6’ 4" tall. That question usually comes at a doctor's office. One time I showed the nurse the height/weight chart on the wall, pointed to my weigh and showed her that it said I was 6’ 4” tall. She told me to get real. I told her it was her chart, not mine.
When I do get the raised eyebrow, I tell them that I am just short for my height. I know it is a bit silly, but that's how tall I want to be. Not much I can do about it, though. Just look at my driver’s license. It says I am 5' 9" tall. Even that is a stretch. The DMV did not care that I wanted to be taller.
The reason I mention it is that I have been thinking about the white lady at the Spokane, Washington NAACP. She claims that she is black. That is in spite of the fact that she was born to white parents and grew up as a very white, blue-eyed blonde.
Yet, she once filed a lawsuit against a black college for discriminating against her because she was white. More recently she has reported a number of mysterious harassment acts against her because she is black.
She may wear her hair in the African-American style, sport a dark tan and talk in what some have described as a black accent, whatever that is. She cannot escape her DNA.
By claiming to be black, she has been able to catch a position at a local university, teaching Black Studies. The mayor of Spokane appointed a black Dolezal chairwoman of a police oversight committee to keep an eye on fairness in police work, probably because she said she was black.
But, her DNA is white girl all the way. She can’t change that anymore than I can grow another 7 or 8 inches in height.
I also have been following the Bruce Jenner decision to let out the woman inside him and become a lady, Caitlyn Jenner. He has had a number of surgeries recently to look as feminine as possible, but that does not make him a woman.
All the plastic surgery and hormones in the world aren’t going to do it. He/She can proclaim his/her womanhood to the world, but until they find a way to remove that Y Chromosome from his DNA, he will still be all man inside.
Both of these people decided not to be who they are, but be the person they want to be. They can shout out their wanna-be personas to the sympathetic PC world and get those marvelous accolades but they never will be what they claim they are. Dolezal said in one interview that she is a trans-racial person, just like Jenner claims to be a trans-sexual being. Somehow, that makes them what they want you to believe they are.
I knew a lady who changed her surname from the very German-American one she was born with to a very clear minority one. She would have loved Ms. Dolezal.
As a minority and wearing the victim hat to the nines, she was able to jump the line and move into state provided housing, receive full medical and dental care, food stamps, full disability and even had a state provided ‘chore girl’ twice a week. Whenever she wanted to go anywhere, transportation was provided.
Like Dolezal, she milked the system for all it offered her as a minority victim because she knew how to work the system.
Well, what does this have to do with the Mormons? A lot. I recently had some dialogue with a Dr. Roger Olson on the Patheos Forum at their website.
He had spent two weekends at ecumenical dialogue events at Brigham Young University as their guest. While not fully buying into the LDS claim of fully orthodox Christianity, he did fall prey to the same sort of game that the folks I mentioned above play.
They told him, with warm smiles, that they were Christians and they say that they are not sure about all those things that define their doctrines as heresy. Was God a man? Well, they are not too sure..
Because no one in the Christian PC ranks wants to offend anyone else’s beliefs on who they think they are, Christians like Dr. Olson go to meetings at BYU and walk away with the fuzzies.
The truth is Mormonism can no more be Christian than I can be six feet, four inches tall or Bruce Jenner can really be a woman or the lady in Spokane can turn black. The DNA will never match.
They may have called Dr. Olson a brother in the faith, but Mormons of my generation who, like me, went through the temple quickly learned that all Christian pastors were the hirelings of Satan.
In the Book of Mormon [most perfect book on earth], one can still read that the Catholics and Protestants are the whore of all the earth. It still sits there along with defining all other churches as the church of the devil.
Mormonism was and still is a church that declares its purpose is to restore the lost gospel. They preach a full falling away and the necessity of God coming to earth and re-establishing His only true church through a new prophet.
This prophet, Joseph Smith, proclaimed that God and Jesus appeared to him physically and told him that all the creeds of Christianity were abominations to him, filthy in his eyes.
Mormonism was a “Come out from among them!” church. Its missionaries were sent out to pull the lost from the churches of the devil. Their missionaries are still out there by the many thousands. They are still sent forth to pull the lost out of the Baptist and Lutheran and Presbyterian churches of the devil.
Like the foolish people above, they can claim to be what they can never be forever, but their DNA will never allow it in reality.
They cannot be a true restorationist church at the same time they want to join up with the church of the devil.
Well. I think you get my point.
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