Posted on 02/27/2009 7:36:53 AM PST by restornu
This is a story about good deeds. There are plenty of other threads to discuss LDS topics.
Would you answer my other question?
I have a suggestion - if you need to be told in detail how you can respond on a thread about an organization doing charitable acts, then I would suggest staying off it entirely. Quite frankly, it’s pretty sorry that I have to babysit this thread and that some people just can’t say “good works” and keep their dogmatic issues on the Religion forum.
Yes, that’s good. And surely there are many beams in my eye. I considerest them. I don’t considerest them not.
I genuinely posted to help. I don’t want people to see that dumb title & think “soul soliciting scum”. That doesn’t help our common causes.
If you are going to make that an issue, then we Christians have a plank to pull out of our eye before dealing with the LDS’s speck.
I don’t see what you’re saying.
How about this.. think about saying..
“Gee LDS church, THANK YOU for donating wheel chairs to poor, injured kids”..
Instead of nit picking something in which we are just as guilty about. I’ve never once seen these kind of accusations drawn against, say, the Southern Baptist Convention when they announce a charitable donation. Usually they receive praise and accolades.
The LDS is not my church, therefore, I don’t feel it is my place to start nitpicking things like this when my own house needs cleaning. They deserve our thanks for this, not criticism.
If it’s impossible for a thread like this to exist without the usual hailstorm of arrows, perhaps it would save you and everyone else here time and heartburn to make it a caucus thread.
I think I see where the mod is coming from.. it seems that no matter the subject, if someone in the topic happens to be LDS, the thread turns into a theological bash and the point of the news story is long gone.. Basically, a thread on Marie Osmond’s new jewelry line will have hundreds of posts how the LDS used to support polygamy because she happens to be Mormon.
Right, every thread. Frankly, it’s getting very tiresome, not only to LDS here, but I’ve seen many Non-LDS express similar frustration.
“Instead of nit picking something in which we are just as guilty about. I’ve never once seen these kind of accusations drawn against, say, the Southern Baptist Convention when they announce a charitable donation. Usually they receive praise and accolades.
The LDS is not my church, therefore, I don’t feel it is my place to start nitpicking things like this when my own house needs cleaning. They deserve our thanks for this, not criticism.”
Thank you. Anti Mormonism has become an obsession on this forum for some. It’s ugly.
“the Southern Baptist Convention when they announce a charitable donation”
I didn’t see that on here. If it were the same, I would have the same comment to make.
The title made me post. The title was childish, and it evoked my response. Anyone who actually read my comments saw I was focused on the AUTHOR, not the church for doing it. But as is so often the case, the facts/words are ignored, and some people just place their own expectations there instead.
“Thank you. Anti Mormonism has become an obsession on this forum for some. It’s ugly.”
Absolute nonsense. Show me the quote.
The anti posters have been advised many times to keep the theological debate on "open" threads in the Religion Forum where it belongs.
And the thin-skinned posters have been advised many times to stay away from "open" threads on the Religion Forum.
But there are some on both sides who ignore the moderators and are drawn like moths to a flame. If they get burnt they have no one else to blame.
This is a nice story about charity and should be treated as such. The “Auntie Ems” that will inevitably be drawn to any thread with the word LDS in it so they can spew their usual bile and hate...you’d think they would have better things to do than worry about Mormons...it’s a weird obsession...I am often surprised they are tolerated on this forum...IMHO they make conservatives look bad...magritte
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