I get the feeling this thread is winding down.
I cannot help but notice some unique things that have happened on this thread.
I pointed out what I believed to be Juvenile behavior on this thread, specifically:
- Name calling.
- Posting about someone without pinging them.
- Removing people from the To line when responding to their posts.
- Addressing people indirectly so as not to be required to ping them.
I referred to these kinds of behaviors as "Petty" and "Childish". I was reported to the owner of this board, who did not respond to the post calling upon him.
Later in the thread, the same tactic of intimidation was used by various posters, with first the religion moderator, and then the Admin Moderator.
Allow me to say that posting to a moderator for anything that is not really an abuse of the system, is Moderator abuse, IMHO, and should not be allowed either, they put in lots of time here, and their job should be to police (catch rule breakers) not "referee" discussions (Again, my opinion).
Throughout this thread, I have employed a new tactic, I have actually challenged people to read the scriptures and pray. Various posters have tried to explain why you should not pray, and it has not been a successful argument, because the scriptures are, of course, replete with commands to pray. I have added a new section to my page on FR, called
Put our religion to "The Test", This section has links to the most obvious scriptures commanding people to test try and ask.
Suggestions for improvement gladly accepted, (Thank you for the many spelling errors that have been pointed out to me, and I hope fixed).
As Fred Thompson entered the campaign, I saw a drop in the anti activity, this was no doubt due to the flurry of articles about Fred sucking away all the news cycles on Mitt. I am a Fred Thompson Supporter, but I have been active on the Mitt threads because they often turned into Anti-Mormon festivals. I will continue to defend the church, but would love to spend more time on the Fred Thompson threads, thus I am sharing with my fellow Mormons the tactics I have found to be successful.
The logic is simple: (accompanied by appropriate scriptures, I just quoted the Bible most of the time)
- Offer a free Book of Mormon
- Offer a free Bible
- Ask people to pray about both, and compare the spirit
- Testify of the truth contained in BOTH books
The results are predictable:
- Attempts to discredit the Book of Mormon without reading it. (prayer is a simpler way to know the truth)
- Accusations of being dishonest. (by asking people to pray?)
- Claims of having a negative response (so, they should encourage others to read also...so they can know it's false)
- Claims that Satan will answer a prayer to God. (not scriptural, Denies the principles of Christianity, Makes Satan more powerful than God)
- Temptations to break rules so you can be reported to the Mods.
- People seeing the bankrupt position of the anti's.
- People getting a free copy of the Book of Mormon.
- People Getting a Free copy of the Bible.
- People Reading them, feeling the spirit and doing what God tells them is true.
There is a down side, we will never know who we helped to find the truth, but it also means the Anti's will not know who to attack for being interested. Oh well Having had success on FR with people before, I am perfectly willing to work on faith and without a way to know. God bless, and keep up the Good Work.