Why is ELSIE so angry?
Almost all of what is passed off as anti-Mormon bigotry on Free Republic is in reality nothing more than people providing annotated facts concerning Mormonism ... and the vast majority of that data is taken directly from LDS sources and historical records. Saints are offered an opportunity to rebut the replies and apologies are offered along with retractions if the information provided is not correct.
Alternatively, it is common to resort to ad hominem responses (i.e. attack an opponent's character rather than answer the contentions made) when unable to make a credible and reasoned response. Blanket use of the term anti-Mormon is one of the most blatant examples of that practice.
The anti Mormon bigots are in full hue and cry on Free Republic and have been for months.
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MONTHS??? We’ve been here for years posting the truth about Mormonism.
And as you so correctly state, Zak, it is not bigotry to post quotes from LDS sources and to post personal experiences. Sadly, the LDS (and some non-LDS defenders) name call rather than actually rebut what we are saying or prove that we are wrong.
So, bert, care to point out actual bigotry?
For me "The Church of the Firstborn" is also known as "Faith Assembly", "The General Assembly and (or 'of') the Church of the First Born", or "The Apostolic Charismatic Church of the First Born in the Fullness of Times Teaching Christ's Commandments Army Cross Training", and a few dozen other assortments of the same words (more or less), and inhabited by members of the same families.
I suppose COTFB means something to LDS, but the COTFB was around since at least 1702 when it was mentioned they'd had a church at or near what is now Bronwville, TX. I believe that was a whaling camp, so that'd be a branch of the earlier COTFB founded in Scandinavia (more than once I might add!).
Some of my relatives have claimed for many years that COTFB had already been a going business in Western New York many years before Joseph Smith was born, and he at least attended their services ~ whether or not he participated is a good question.
The part of religious faith that really sets these guys apart from most of us is they don't believe in doctors ~ other than setting bones they don't want doctors around. Most of their congregations look to be fairly straightforward these days but you can find their congregants on Indian reservations chewing peyote (and maybe using other hallucinogenic substances).
There are COTFB groups that practice fairly well organized serial polygamy ~ for example, Bill Clinton's baby-daddy and his mother. They each had five spouses over their lifetimes ~ which is pretty much characteristic of the COTFB in Brown County, Indiana and the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. I think this is to counter the effects of a genetic condition that creates INDETERMINATE INFERTILITY ~ something you definitely don't want to have.
It's also something Bill Clinton seems to have ~ at least he's tried to cure it with thousands of women.
His more distant cousin David Howell (Koresh) definitely figured out how to get around the problem ~
Well, what more can I say ~ there are people who do not know much of the history of the non-mainline churches in America and imagine that all the strange folk out West are just Jack Mormons.
May be true in some places, but there's this COTFB group that just knocks the Jack Mormons off the porch when it comes to strange stuff ~ and they're all over the West ~ makes it harder to catch them and take away their chillun 'afore they can kill 'em by keeping them out of the hands of the doctors.
Passed off?
It's PISSED off MORMONs that canNOT accept the FACT of what their BELOVED religious organization is built upon!
THEY whine and bitch constantly about lies, twisting, out of context, slander, and yet they utterly FAIL to produce ANY evidence of what they so pomposly claim.
Why is ELSIE so angry?
I'd be interested in your response.