Rubbish. Your goal is to get your jolies trashing people who are your natural political allies.
The pleasure you take in tormenting people who are mistaken in their theology reflects more poorly on you than on them.
Why do you feel threated by the LDS? If they come to your door, all you need do is tell them you're not interested. That's what I do, and I do the same when the JW's show up.
If you want to know how to deal with Mormons, all you need do is consider the example of Jesus confronting the Samaritan woman at the well. Did He trash her beliefs? Did he condemn her as a heretic? No, he treated her with the respect due to every human being, and thereby convinced her that He had the words of everlasting life.
Your behavior, and that of your cohort, brings disgrace upon authentic Christianity, for you will be judged, by other human beings, not by your arguments, but by your example.
Your apalling behavior also brings disgrace upon this forum, and is one of the reasons that it is (unjustly) characterized as a hate site. In short, it is your behavior which is problematic, far more so than that of the LDS.
Ultimately, the question for FR will be decided by economics. If you're allowed to continue to turn this place into a cesspool by unnecessarily alienating those who are your natural political allies, it will not survive. Your choices are to amend your behavior, be shown the door, or ultimately be deprived of a forum for your bigotry because it no longer exists.
And, BTW, I'm not a member of any "lobby"; I'm just an individual expressing my opinion. My hope is that FR may recover its former sanity and influence, nothing more. But, as a Catholic, I consider that I have paid quite sufficient dues in all the abuse I'm expected to endure in order to participate in FR. And I will give this place not one penny until the bashing stops. Eventually, the financial rubber will meet the road on this, and the management can either recognize that reality, or resign itself to decline and extinction.
I see you haven't answered any of my questions.
Well, le’see, you are apparently a mind reader, telling freepers what they think, how they derive their ‘jolies’, and what their mental motives are, and then you also seem to be a forecaster of future events since you’re now telling ‘the management’ of this voluntarily supporter website waht will happen if they don’t ‘go back to allowing’ what anti-Christian data pushing has been squelched! Do you even know what the founders of Mormonism have taught as their doctrine, as found in their own words collected in the JOurnal of Discourses? Do you espouse all religions can lead to salvation? Do you really want to endorse the anti-Christian doctrines in Mormonism just so a website you don’t appear to agree with policy of will conform to ‘can’t we all just get along’?
Your goal is to get your jolies... [says Cantabile, not just judging outward behavior but inward motivations]
Haven't you ever read 1 Samuel 16:7 which talks about how man looks at the outward, but only God sees the heart? My. How do you do it?
How do you manage to judge internal motivations?...and then complain four graphs later about "judging?"
What? Do you use a magic 8-ball to judge internal motivations?
A personalized urim & thummim?
Why do you feel threated by the LDS? If they come to your door, all you need do is tell them you're not interested. That's what I do, and I do the same when the JW's show up.
Cantabile, why do you feel threatened by those who oppose LDS? If they post on a thread, all you need to do is not respond. Or is it that your advice is so weak that you can't live on it yourself?
If you want to know how to deal with Mormons, all you need do is consider the example of Jesus confronting the Samaritan woman at the well. Did He trash her beliefs? Did he condemn her as a heretic? No, he treated her with the respect due to every human being, and thereby convinced her that He had the words of everlasting life.
Massive confusion of audience. When the apostle Paul dealt with pagans, like Acts 17 on Mars Hill, he was "distressed" it says. He realized how afflicted they were by so many gods. He sought commonality with the "unknown god." He was patient with them.
Same chapter. Acts 17:2 re: how Paul dealt with Jews in the Synagogue. He reasoned with them. Same with Acts 18 (reasoned with them). In Acts 19:8, he "argued persuasively" with them...
Jesus was likely MUCH more forceful with the legalistic Pharisees. He labeled them children of Satan (John 8); he called them inward sepulcres (tombstones).
Today, Mormons are among the leading legalists of our times. Most fit in the Pharisee category, not your woman at the well. The woman at the well had five husbands and was living with another man. Does that sound like your average Mormon?
May I suggest you study God's Word a bit more before you try to export faulty applications?
And I will give this place not one penny until the bashing stops. ("Except, of course, the bashing I, Cantabile, pour out on others...calling them torturers, tormenters, superimposing imagined motivations such as 'jollies' and insecurity, bashing posters as 'disgraceful...hate(rs)' etc...Of course, that's allowed because I, Cantabile have paid for a license that gives me a right to bash!")
Why do YOU 'feel' that WE feel threatened?
ANOTHER freeploader!
If you want to know how to deal with Mormons, all you need do is consider the example of Jesus confronting the Samaritan woman at the well. Did He trash her beliefs? Did he condemn her as a heretic? No, he treated her with the respect due to every human being, and thereby convinced her that He had the words of everlasting life.
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Kid you need to reade the Christian Bible for yourself
the LORD Jesus Christ “disrespected” that woman up one side and down the other
When she went to preach to her town her first words were “Come and meet a man who told me every bad thing I ever did.”
Asw for her beliefs, she knew they were trash. She admitted it herself.
Why would he condemn her as a heretic ??? There is no mention of that. after all she was worshipping the same God as the Jews.
Letting a woman know that He knew she was a whore is hardly “treating her with respect”
Next you’ll be saying thaty Adam and Eve did a good thing for humanity when they disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden and got averyone condemned to be born in sin...
Maybe a “fall up” ????