Posted on 03/03/2015 12:32:27 PM PST by two134711
Thank you Free Republic for allowing me to post and vent on this site for over ten years. I am a young, married conservative woman who is trying to raise her daughter to be a fine, upstanding lady, an educated woman and a worthy wife to a decent man. Despite the stupidity of my generation (I am on the cusp of GenX and GenY) there is hope. Many young people are more prolife than ever. And at last, many others are beginning to open their eyes to the lies of socialism.
However recent events on this site like witnessing the discord between fellow believers of Christ and how the Religious moderators have given carte blanche to those who wish to spread hate is not something I want to be part of.
I received this message from the Religion Moderator regarding Key words received 03/02/2015 8:45:19 PM PST
“DO NOT use keywords to snipe at other posters or beliefs. RM”
I certainly did not post key words that sniped at anyone; they were terms such as "enough already,” “Christianity,” “unity” and "peace." Now, yes, the comments I made were invectives thrown at posters. I don't deny that; but they deserved every word directed at them and more. Outside of Caucus threads the religious forum is based on sniping at posters and insulting other's beliefs. Mostly it’s a few alleged “Evangelicals” damning those Papists, pedophiles, pagans, cracker-eaters, cannibals and Mary-worshipping heretics to Hell if they don't convert to the Western Branch of American Reform Presbylutheranism or the Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879. Then a very small contingent of Catholics tries to fight back.
These are the kind of comments are allowed on the religious forums without any moderation.
"I believe that Catholicism has caused more people to go to hell then [sic] Islam."
84 posted on 2/23/2015, 2:36:42 PM by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
AND
**Have you accepted the Catholic Church** "I have accepted Jesus. Not some abomination created by man."
98 posted on 2/23/2015, 2:46:17 PM by Gamecock (Joel Osteen is a minister of the Gospel like Captain Crunch is a Naval line officer.)
I have no skin in this game other than to realize that Christians (and Jews) are not each other’s enemies. There is a much more diabolical force in this world that should be fought. Anti-theists, Islamists, secular amoralists, etc., they're nothing. But, hey, keep going after Catholics and Mormons because they're the ones ruining the world today!
I said those words because it was the truth, (a truth that many others see but do not mention; they merely avoid the conflicts). If the anti-Catholic delusional bigots have a problem with the truth, then a pox on their houses.
I have posted on and off this site for over ten years. Every time I come back here I think to myself, “Wow, FR is one of the only sites telling it like it is when it comes to politics!” But then the OCD religious posters take control over and over again. It’s not just the religious forums, but they’re the worst. In the past the moderation was far more even-handed. Now it’s out of control. Please use more judiciousness in moderating them in the future.
You are losing members left and right and your fundraisers take months to complete. I am aware that the owner of this site, Mr. Robinson, is a Catholic, and I’m sure it breaks his heart to see such infighting amongst fellow Christians. I hope his health betters and that he can continue to fight the goof fight.
Nevertheless, FR's days as a premium conservative site are over. There a quite a few decent folks around here like Mrs. Don-0, xzins, Morgana, miss marmelstein, wardaddy, that fellow named something like yefrugeturbrumuy, and lots of others. There are many good folks with diverse opinions and no malice in their hearts.
But some others seem possessed by other-world forces. Mostly they're old people scared of death, wanting to make sure they get in with God before the end, desperate to hold on to every penny they've ever come across, willing to kvetch about the future and frequently mentioning how glad they'll be when they're dead and won't have to deal with this world, while their children and grandchildren will. Or worse, they actively wish for the world to end today or soon. Sorry, I'm young enough to have a smidgen of hope despite the moral disaster this world is in.
The Apple squabbles, the griping about TV and art, heck even the "my candidate is better than your candidate" bloodletting is nothing compared to the nutters that run rampant on the religion forum.
So Religious moderator, if you thought my key words were examples of “sniping,” then I suppose this post was outright bashing. Every time I come to this site I get angry. Anger opens up the heart to dark forces; it’s best not to be part of that.
Got to go. May peace come to this once wonderful site and make it a place of harmony for future posters.
You’re right ... you or me or anyone else is EVER going to hear from ANYONE that they went to Hell because any one of us, in particular, failed to give them the Gospel. That would make God out to be a powerless nobody!
The most that will happen from perhaps one of us failing to do so, is that ANOTHER PERSON will get our reward for that, because we failed. God will INSURE that person is saved ... with or without us!
But, if you want to build up your bank account in Heaven ... then, yes, do witness ... but don’t beat someone to death because they have refused ... just move on.
That was a foolish promise! And he obviously knows it was foolish now ... :-) ...
Scripture = spam?
Who knew?
As for someone following you around from thread to thread?
In your dreams, but it makes for a nice martyr complex to claim that.
I don’t see that anyone has the time to waste to follow you and your posts just to comment on them.
What’s that about sniping?
You should have read my earlier posts about that ... I made that clear to Elsie ... :-) ...
Try Post #572, although I said it in a few places ...
Tell you what.
No thanks.
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And that's the bottom line. This is a time for finding our common ground and uniting against the true enemy. However, there remain those who are extremely susceptible to satan's "divide and conquer" ploy.
Don't leave. Visit the Prayer Forum. There are so many people who write in, Their journeys are an inspiration; it's a peaceful, gentle place.
Best wishes to you and your family. Pray for peace: within ourselves; between one another; in our world!
God bless you!
Except you’re replying to me days after this thread has happily become old hat. You people never let up - and yes, you people do spam with out-of-context biblical quotes - not in order to educate but to bully and discourage argument. You and your group are the biggest jerks on FR as the original poster suggested. La metmom sans merci.
My answer is not necessarily your answer.
I consider this line of action better for everyone; I say this as someone who has been capable of getting in trouble, even garbling the message, through words and posts.
One thing that struck me when I first read about it--one thing which sometimes bubbles into my memory when I post--is what C.S. Lewis wrote in "The Weight of Glory."
It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.
So it is that we may do well to remember something in 2 Corinthians 7:
[8] For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.
[9] Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.
[10] For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
I do not advocate a Religion Forum in which no one gets upset, and I don't know how it would be humanly possible to produce one. How much evidence is there, though, of "repentance to salvation"?
Still beats being a biblically illiterate Catholic.
Illiterate?
Maybe not.
Able to understand what the bible plainly says without being TOLD by the church?
Provable.
Then there are those of the "Join the Borg or ELSE!" mindset.
...angels unaware...
I do.
Make it on the order of a personal diary or journal, that only you could write in.
Heck; that wouldn't work either; as I get mad at myself over things I've said, written or done...
AM-en! Imagine going to Heaven, and finding out you aren't God after all!
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