Posted on 03/29/2009 2:35:03 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
I understand there is a new anti-freeper site started by disgruntled former and present Mormon FReepers and it is their intention of bankrupting FR during the coming Freepathon by withholding their donations and disrupting our activities. Well, all I can say is, if they feel that badly against FR, by all means they should withhold their donations and drop out of FR. But it they attempt to disrupt our operations I will guarantee they will no longer be members of FR. If that is their wish, so be it.
I'm not going to try to defend FR from their claims of religious persecution, but I will say that Mormons have and always have had free reign to post their threads on FR just as all other religious groups have enjoyed. Free Republic defends the right to freedom of religion and has always welcomed religious discussion and always will. And Mormons have always been welcome here. I have absolutely nothing against Mormons.
If you are one who has left or is leaving, I wish you well, but disruption of FR is not welcome and will not be tolerated.
And this is not the first time such activity has been attempted by groups of disgruntled former FReepers. Good luck with that. There is always some group that feels FR should be bent to their way of thinking and end up saying my way or the highway. Well, I don't know about you, but I'm not changing so I guess it's the highway. Is it Feb 8 yet?
God bless.
What’s fry sauce?
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Many take those quotes out of context to make them seem to say something they do not really say.
FROM ACTUAL LDS PUBLICATIONS!
So it begs the question, is he lying or are you?
If we are not teaching it right then show us the TRUTH. Explain what Joe Smith REALLY meant when he says God in an exalted man of flesh and bones.
Otherwise all we have to go on is what your founder has said. It is pretty straight forward and simple and clear in its reading.
Then, Fred, why aren't you posting those "differences" every day instead of accusing others of lying?
From your posts it would appear that you have a very slim knowledge of mormon beliefs and don't want to question them. Perhaps you are afraid of catching Shaken Faith Syndrome?
A mixture of ketchup and mayonaise. It's a staple in Utah.
That's what many of us are doing here.
Thanks for making it crystal clear.
Posters that are posting the truth about the LDS are quite different.
Thought about converting to the LDS for a few hours just to complete the picture...
Mormons can’t break the bond of Free Republic...just cool down everyone. Religion is a Freedom..remember?
Keep it up and you’ll make the list....
LOL...
Oh I love mixing those two. Now it has a name!
>>I have had attacks on me from pro
>>Mitt mormons to a degree I care not to discuss
Whenever I see Mitt I’m reminded of this guy:
http://www.robbevans.com/html/finadvnews.html
http://www.robbevans.com/pdf/finadvapress02.pdf
Lewis was operating within the Mormon hierarchy for more than 20 years. I saw Lewis in action before he got busted in his underwear around 5:00am at motel in Texax - where the cheap shyster used a senior discount card while on the run...
The shark suits, the constant smooth chamelionesque shuck and jive.
I always got the impression they were cast from the same mold.
Take this one, and show me how it is taken out of context or how I've twisted anything. Have you seen quotes here at FR where LDS founders said something WORSE than "Christ is a polygamist and SINNER" ?
The burden of proof is on you when you claim we are lying....
Apostle Orson Hyde: “I discover that some of the Eastern papers represent me as a great blasphemer, because I said, in my lecture on Marriage, at our last Conference, that JESUS CHRIST WAS MARRIED at Cana of Galilee, THAT MARY, MARTHA, AND OTHERS WERE HIS WIVES, AND THAT HE BEGAT CHILDREN. All I have to say in reply to that charge [that Jesus was married and had children] is this --- they worship a Savior that is too pure and holy to fulfil the commands of his Father. I worship one that is just pure and holy enough "to fulfil all righteousness;" not only the righteous law of baptism, but the still more righteous and important law "to multiply and replenish the earth." Startle not at this ! for even the Father himself honored that law by coming down to Mary, without a natural body, and begetting a son; and if Jesus begat children, he only "did that which he had seen his father do." (Journal of Discourses, Volume 2, page 210; brackets mine)
I'm waiting.
Yes, he is!
I guess some folks think they're doing the Almighty's work in exposing what they see as the truth but the "slash and burn" method of evangelism makes me want to run as fast as I can in the opposite direction. It's basically Islam with a "born again" mantra.
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Given how often I have addressed that in this thread, I can only see this statement as another attempt to deceive and misguide readers.
Man may grow into Godhood.
God is no longer a man, He has already grown to Godhood.
Yet you have said, then denied that you said, then said that you said that we teach that God IS a man.
Small difference in words, yet a large misdirection by you and yours.
apparently, according to Greg West it does. Hey I am on the list too.
Yes; Resty; you DO!
You FULLY believe ewhat Joseph Smith said about PRESBYTERIANism and EVERY other 'christian' faith; DON'T YOU??
Therefore YOU have made these very same statements: you CANNOT weasel out if it and remain a Mormon in Good Standing.
Then, Fred, why aren’t you posting those “differences” every day instead of accusing others of lying?
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I have seen the corrections since before I started posting.
I have made the corrections in the past.
Yet, ya’ll refuse to change what you teach to reflect the truth.
Best I can do is show others that ya’ll are not careful with the truth.
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