#1 Hatred is an internal motivation. Where do you get off internally judging others? (Only God sees the heart -- per the Old Testament...see 1 Samuel 16:7...which also says man looks only @ the outward appearance...) Where did you get your "degree" in judging strangers' inward motivations?
#2 Sometimes, I get the feeling that some posters were brought up in hostile homes in which perhaps hatred was an ingredient. They then wind up projecting in their adulthood "disagreements" and "arguing" and "objections raised" as hostile hatred.
Now you're a stranger. I don't pretend to know your history. So I'll just ask you point blank vs. presuming that I know something about your family history: Tell us: What was your family background in terms of "harmony" and any possible in-fighting that may have occurred?
#3 I noticed that instead of saying "hatred of MormonISM" -- you were guilty of a bad overreach by claiming some "hatred of Mormons" themselves.
Well, here's a "parallel" application here: By extension, you have thereby bought into the homosexual agenda & liberal MSM agenda & liberal campus multi-cultural agenda by assuming that opposing the homosexual agenda somehow = opposing the homosexual person.
There's really no way to escape this parallel application/conclusion.
People who claim it's "anti-Mormons" (the people) ... and not "anti-MormonISM" (the ISM or "systematic beliefs, worldviews, theology and doctrine") that is being opposed...
...wind up -- by extension -- joining the homosexual activists, the MSM, and the campus multi-culturalists in claiming ANY and ALL opposition to homosexuality is some slam/diss/bigotry vs. the homosexual himself.
Since this is a conservative site, after all, may I politely suggest that you consider repenting of whatever MSM and multi-cultural worldviews subtly or not-so-subtly taught to you by your campus mentors and/or MSM communicators?
May I suggest you then apply all this in a consistent way?
You’re projecting wayyyyyy too much. I should have used Mormonism instead of Mormons.
I don’t know Elsie, so I have no idea whether his hatred of the religion spills over to individual Mormons or not.
“you have thereby bought into the homosexual agenda ... by assuming that opposing the homosexual agenda somehow = opposing the homosexual person.”
I’ve noticed that too. AH, I recommend caution here. The most nastiest liberal, left-wing thing in the world right now is hate crime legislation, and it is philosophically rooted in this confusion where rejection of a belief system is falsely equated with rejection of the person.
This is because in the postmodern mind, there really is no such distinction. A person is not a human soul, but a mere collection of belief constructs. Like transgender theory. A person is whatever gender they believe themselves to be. Biological truth doesn’t matter. Old-fashioned ideas like truth, with its logic and labels and categories, are all just tools of the old guard used to oppress poor victim class X. Fill in the blank. It works for any group.
Well, except those who actually still believe in true truth. They are the ones the left really does love to hate, because they spoil the party. Logic and truth might actually lead to some members of victim class X to move out of that group and see themselves and others objectively. And that would be bad, for the left, because truth can actually stop fights, and they need, above all, the fight. It’s how they gain power.
So you see why Colofornian is right. Your premise is functionally postmodern, even if that is not your intent, and it makes you vulnerable to the same line of reasoning used by every other victim class that has ever become a pawn of the left. That’s who the left is. That’s what they do. Enslave and cocoon people in their matrix of victimology. But once you have taken the “red” pill, you can’t go back to the illusion.