Extend this parallel & you have "Given the choice of having a next door neighbor to be a liberal Democrat, Islamic, or a Son of Obama, I'm taking the liberal Democrat every day of the week."
And the extended parallel would be, of course, in the very context of a thread where the attacks come aimed at a Freeper who posted a thread about Liberal Democrats...with another FREEPER claiming that the person is "obsessed" about liberal Democrats because he keeps posting threads about them.
ALL: What you NEVER see on FR...is these same arguments used to go after people who post on liberal Dems (they are never called "obsessed" with them) or Islam (they are never called obsessed with Muslims if they post a few threads a month about Islam).
Funny how only Mormonism is defended in this common fashion.
Iow, either these posters are inconsistently religiously hypocritical...you don't find them going after others posting on Islam, Catholicism, or protestantism...or, their arguments readily breakdown because if you apply them to many other topics discussed here on FR forums, nobody takes that angle to go on the offensive against them.
Liberal democrats are the conservative enemy, causing great harm to our country.
Mormons generally, with exceptions like Harry Reid, are conservative, on our side and in fact participants here.
Theologically they are wrong.
The way they live and contribute to society is more positive than negative.
Olog has made good comments in this regard.
So, I think your analogy is flawed, but I also think your premise is flawed.
I don’t think many people post obsessive highly emotional threads about liberal Democrats. We post objective analytical criticisms not meant to drum up visceral responses but to engender rational objective thinking on which policies and philosophies are best for the country.
One more thing, re this:
“Funny how only Mormonism is defended in this common fashion.”
Whom do you think has defended Mormonism on this thread?
I don’t see anyone defending Mormonism.