Friday, September 14, 2007

Yes, but how are they DIFFERENT?

By CHRIS FRANCESCANI / ABC News
ST. GEORGE, Utah, Sept. 14, 2007


Warren (God) Jeffs
Would you buy a used car
from this man?


The key witness in the trial of polygamist Warren Jeffs testified Thursday that she was taught Jeffs was the prophet and the only way to eternal salvation was a complete surrender to his teachings.

"The prophet was God to us. He was God on Earth and his counselors were pretty much the same, so they had jurisdiction over us," the woman said, explaining why she agreed to Jeffs' order to marry her 19-year-old cousin when she was 14 years old.

More on "knowing what's on gods mind" ... and the man who says he knows.


How is this man any different than a Pope who declares that his church is the only true church and therefore, the only path to salvation - or the fundamentalists who who so look forward to the Rapture - or Christian Evangelicals who claim THEY have the only way to salvation - or Ossama bed Linen and his religious perspective?

How do you tell them apart when their beliefs are fundamentally so similar?

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