[Deseret News, unless I missed it, did not use the term “brainwashing.”]
Mormons never use the term brainwashing, nor do Scientologists, until they are ex-Mormons or ex-Scientologists. That’s when the term brainwashing becomes apparent in most of their writings. So I’ll stick with the term.
“You decided to throw that in for good measure, just as you decided to toss in the part about Ann somehow being coerced.”
Any time you take a sixteen year old to the house of a presidential candidate and subject her to six sessions under peer pressure, that’s brainwashing. If you don’t think so, then offer up a 15 year old Mormon girl to my care for six sessions of “conversion” to Satanism (as you seem quite tolerant of that sect).
“A young woman deciding to accept the theology of a religious organization that she thinks is the truth is not brainwashing.”
Yeah sure. We’ll put this out for comments.
“It’s called “conversion.” You know, like Jesus did with all those people way back when?”
So you are telling me the Romneys are Christ like figures???
~”Of course, we’ll see how far this gets with the generically unbigoted Mormon father of the 15 year old girl.”~
“It seems to me that Ann’s father trusted her judgment - or did you miss that part of the story?”
I consider him just as much a freak.
“You’d better get a whole lot better at defending this position, FC. You’re going to be seeing a lot of it for a while.”
Like I said, please do. Normal people know freaky brainwashing when they see it.
~”Any time you take a sixteen year old to the house of a presidential candidate and subject her to six sessions under peer pressure, that’s brainwashing.”~
See, there you go again. Making up details that aren’t in the story. You asked me before to cite your lies. Was this an honest mistake? Given your track record, I have my doubts. Then again, you are doing so in the same breath that you actually quote the text of the story, so perhaps you simply didn’t read it very carefully. Either way, FC, this sort of carelessness is yet another blow to your credibility.
It is plain from the text of the article that the missionaries met with Ann, her mother, and her friend Cindy in her own home - without Romney’s father present. All George Romney did at that stage was clear it with Ann’s parents and arrange the meetings.
Perhaps your derangement, FC, is making you see things. Take a deep breath, maybe get a good night’s sleep. The fog should clear up by morning.
~”So you are telling me the Romneys are Christ like figures???”~
There you go again. Assuming the worst and choosing to interpret according to that template. That’s silly. My point is that, if the Mormon missionaries converted Ann Romney through brainwashing, then Jesus did the same with the early Christians. Conversion is not brainwashing, regardless of your personal vendetta to smear the LDS Church. It is a personal spiritual decision - one that Ann Romney saw fit to make as a teenager, and one in which her parents apparently supported her (and her two brothers later, if you continue reading the story).
Or, perhaps my own brainwashing is clouding my judgment? Perhaps conversion to the Lutheran denomination is the only conversion that is not brainwashing?
Come on, are you -trying- to make this so easy for me? You used to be so much more challenging.
~”I consider him just as much a freak.”~
That seems to be a common ailment in your world. It must be tough being only one of so few normal people.
By the way, I’ve been meaning to ask you, how’s that legal case coming along? Have you been making headway?
Best regards!