Good point!
Posted on 06/13/2012 6:05:21 PM PDT by Grig
Dang!
“wasted BANDWIDTH”??
You STILL on dialup?
Then I'll explain.
The comment was made that a few folks kept saying the same things over and over and over and over for at LEAST a year; right?
I was pointing out the fact that over 50,000 LDS 'missionaires' (SLC headquarters figures) do the same things over and over and over and over for at LEAST a year; then they go home; where they get MARRIED (MRs degree) to the girl that has been waiting for their Returned Missionary to appear.
After that 50K are done; then about anOTHER 50K or so hit the highways and byways; trying to sell their product.
Good point!
Your hatred of Mormons bleeds over into every discussion you are involved in here...
Oh shut UP!
The RABID MORMON 'Grig' started this thread and it is NOTHING but 'religion'!
Ask HIM why HE didn't put it in the RELIGION forum!
Oh there you go; ACCUSING me of HATING MORMONs; when the EVIDENCE is CLEAR that I hate what they so FOOLISHLY believe in!
Mormons have a right to their beliefs in this nation...
That's true; and if you have ANY evidence I said they DIDn't; then you WILL produce it; right?
Do I have the 'right' to point out that MORMONism is a HERESY?
No thanks; I'll talk religion ANYWHERE that I please.
I will NOT be shunted off; away from POLITE folks, like a crazy uncle; because it upsets someone elses sensibilities.
Or tidy one up that is alREADY started!
I don't think we can ever transcend Joseph Smith or consider him to be a valued personality, but now we'll move on.I don't think you'll see that among believers in the faith, because there are too many other things that came from himthat are the reasons why we do what we do and we are what we are. That there are unanswered questions, to be sure.That there are things that I'm as anxious as the next guy to learn more detail on, I really want to know. But in the interim,it really doesn't, doesn't trouble me.We're in the religion-making business, as you intimated earlier, only for a short time, I mean, compared to theChristian church, which has been at this for a couple of millennia. We're about halfway to Nicaea.And so, and so in that sense — I remember a very tender moment. I was speaking with — I've been invitedto the Salt Lake Theological Seminary, basically an Evangelical seminary, to discuss a book I had done on Jesus.And they had read it, and they wanted me to come and just respond to questions.And it was, it was a very enjoyable couple of hours.The very last question that was asked by one of my friends there was this one.He said, 'Bob, what can we do for you?'And I, I wasn't ready for that question. I said, 'What do you mean?'He said, 'What can we, as Evangelicals, do for our Mormon friends?'And I, I guess my mind could have gone a hundred different ways, but what I came back with was this.I said, 'Boy, I appreciate you asking that. I don't think I've ever been asked that.'But, but I said, 'Try this. Cut us a little slack, will you? Give us a little time.We're in the religion-making business, and this takes time. It takes centuries.And, and trying to explain the faith and articulate the faith, that doesn't come over night.We've really only been about that for 20 or 30 years.'
You may have a point.
Have you complained about 50,000 folks out ATTACKING Christianity every day?
I'm just a little pissant in comparison.
Can't I fight back before being stomped upon?
I'm afraid you'll not be getting well soon then...
2 Corinthians 11:12
And I will keep on doing what I am doing
in order to cut the ground from under those
who want an opportunity to be considered equal
with us in the things they boast about.
I don’t know Elsie, so I have no idea whether his hatred of the religion spills over to individual Mormons or not.
Thank you.
This is true.
Unfortunately, many have been driven off this site...as if we can afford to run off conservatives simply because of their religious beliefs. Grig is just another in a long line.
This is UNTRUE.
They could NOT get their way; bitched and moaned that they couldn't; called folks names; compared them to NAZIs; made veiled (barely) threats; insulted JIM ROBISON.
There are STILL plenty of MORMONs left on FR. Their 'religion'; will NOT get them 'driven' away.
Their ATTITUDES and MANNERs will; just like I will get the feared (or desired, it appears, in some cases) ZOT if I become as nasty as some of the sorry examples of MORMONism that USED to have free reign to post on FR: the BEST conservative website on the web!! (Unashamed suckup by ELSIE)
“Come on in boys; the water’s fine!”
Delmar
Your ping list has gotten very good at trapping opposition posters into zots.
Its disgusting.
O...
K...
But would you like to pray about the Book of MORMON; to see if it's true?
Yelling "FIRE!!!" in a theater...
He WAS?
DAng!
I must have been on vacation when that happened.
...behind the curtain?
HMMmmm...
Some on FR appear to disagree with MY 'lifestyle'; posting the way I do on FR.
You 'understand' one; but not the other?
Allow me to explain...
If a THREAD starts up, with a broad appeal that FI's may be interested in; they get pinged.
Perhaps the 'LIST' was NOT pinged initially; but some poster, down the line, makes a STATEMENT that may appeal to us; THEN we get pinged.
See; it is not as SINISTER as you would try to paint it.
(MORMONs have NEVER done the above; either. -- Baghdad Bob)
I see!
Book of MORMON = BM
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