Let me get this straight: Mormons emphasize testimony this about a person (Smith) and testimony that about a church...but when I post testimonies this and that -- living testimonies -- about the lives of Mormons...you now object?
I thought you thought that testimonies were important! And that testimonies need to go beyond just mere words and be transferred into actions?
Don't we get lectures all the time from Mormon "scriptures" that gossip about Christian sects' supposed "wrong"ness, "corrupt"ness, and creedal abominations? A Mormon "scriptural" verse reading: that: “they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof.” (Pearl of Great Price, Joseph Smith - History, v. 19)
Don't you & co. spread this slander around the world about Christians via your tithing $? Translating it into hundreds of languages? And supporting missionaries to repeat it? And if Smith & his disciples were going to presume about the "living testimony" of Christians about their supposed "corrupt"ness...
...about how we supposedly "draw near to" God with our lips, but our "hearts are far from" God...
...and supposedly have "a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof..."
...well, doncha think the "living testimonies" of good works Lds preach all about should match the lip service they give in their meetinghouses?
Doncha think the living testimonies of Mormons should show that they draw near to God with both their hearts and lips, and not just fill up court rooms? Doncha think that the "power" they display should do more than simply pay another bailbondsman to get them out of jail?
Or maybe, just maybe, you might realize that this has been happening from the get-go: That Joseph Smith, glass-looker, was convicted on that charge in the 1820s. And he would have been convicted of more in the 1840s. And criminal Mormons have been slandering Christians ever since...and some Mormons just don't like all the crimes of glass-looking, destroying printing presses, bigamy, polygamy, theft, sexapades, etc. being published, so they simply go after the messenger -- like Smith did as mayor of Nauvoo!
I just love your convoluted reasoning, Colo. It's rather like trying to navigate a maze.
It's just another excuse to post more anti-Mormon blather. The never-ending hunt for bad publicity on Mormons seems to rule your life.
Must be a hard existence.