Posted on 05/27/2012 9:35:33 AM PDT by greyfoxx39
Another fallacy Elsie - just because I ask a question about A doesn’t mean I have no interest in B. But the reason I asked the question was because of my interest in A.
Don’t be so eager to infer shallow or nefarious intent on the “visitors” here.
Elsie - that was arrogantly said TO me, not BY me.
If a toddler challenges me to a duel, I don’t spend any time at all selecting a second.
There you go again, putting words in my mouth.
Just because Islam gives me pause doesn’t mean I don’t give any consideration to Mormon beliefs.
And of course, when the next Mormon hijacks a plane, kills folks at an army base, gets on a plane with exploding holy underwear, takes down a couple of skyscrapers and kills some 3000 people, or ignites a holy war somewhere in the world in the name of Joseph Smith, all while shouting “Brigham Young and all of his wives!” or “Yahoo Maroni!” - THEN Mormonism will give me the same pause that Islam gives me today.
Just so you know (I’ll save you the question) - I peel an orange differently than I do an apple.
Looks like a lot of so-called “Christians” who are busy defending mormonism, vis a vis arguing about the posters vs. the doctrine, are more worried about the physical death vs. the eternal death warned of in the Bible.
And there are many who wisely ignore or mock the inane and peurile attempts at irony, analolgies, etc. because they are irrelevant. We’ve seen the attempted distractions before, thus, they’re ignored. It’s not indicative of anything else, no matter what you’re inflated sense of ego may tell any of you.
So you will not support a person who switched and now agrees with you, because then they have “no religious convictions”.
That being the case, I suggest you stop bothering people with your attempts to “educate” them. You have acknowledged that if they start agreeing with you, then you will not accept their conversion as real and you will have no respect for them.
...or any OTHER religions, either.
It's a BIG handbasket, and many are in it.
I, for one, am not willing to let the ignorant stay in the basket without knowing some facts.
For some reason this upsets others.
Are THEY in they basket; too?
Very apt point, Elz.
Uh; I don't think I 'inferred' anything.
YOU typed this: not me!
In this thread, I asked a few simple questions - intended to discern the underlying motives of the poster.
And then went on to discuss what YOU thought were the MOTIVES: leaving the actual post topic in the dust.
I usually look for ITALICS to indicate what is being reffered to.
MY mistake.
Do not take a specific and think it extends to the whole. (Right Giles? ;^)
I am talking of MITT, and him only.
His RECORD shows that he flips on this subject.
His RESUME' says he should have NEVER been pro-death to begin with.
Yeah - religious conviction is NOT in evidence.
I refer you to this post of yours to which I was responding:
“Oh?
You really don’t care about the DIFFERENCES; just the agenda?”
My response was to your inference that I care only about the agenda, just because I had questions about it. I don’t necessarily ask questions about everything in which I’m interested.
I did not go on to state anything about what I thought the motives were - at that time I didn’t know...hence, the questions. From that point on I have pretty much been defending myself for asking the questions in the first place...because folks have been inclined to “read my mind” regarding my reasons for asking the questions. Even when I made my reasons clear, there seems to be a desire to deny MY reasons, and impart their own reason to my questions - including a clearly implied doubt regarding the sincerity of my own beliefs....odd, actually, given the “rules” of this forum.
Indeed you didn't.
What you DID state was:
In this thread, I asked a few simple questions - intended to discern the underlying motives of the poster.
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