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Why so many LDS threads?
08-May-2008 | Grig

Posted on 05/08/2008 5:04:47 PM PDT by Grig

I am posting this on behalf of many LDS freepers. They will post their own 'signature' to this in the comments below. --- Some of you have noticed lately a lot of LDS (ie: Mormon) threads here on FR. I'm going to tell you why.

For many years there have been several active LDS freepers here. We post to all the forums on relevant issues, and were happy to have a site where conservative values were so openly welcomed.

Those conservative values include faith in God, and freedom of religion. We fully respect the rights of all posters to express their opinions and views on religious matters, even when people choose to use those rights to express criticism of our own faith. We also support the ideas embodied in FR rules against religion bashing. There is no need for hostility and there should be no room for bigotry on FR. Every religion has it's miracles and mysteries. Every faith has things in it that are not or can not be proven, and things that run contrary to what secular science would have us believe. Someone mature and confident in their own faith generally doesn't feel the need to belittle the faith of others.

We have, to the best of our ability, conducted ourselves with civility and dignity. We do not feel that that respect has been returned by some posters (putting it mildly).

When Mormon missionaries were murdered, the moderators were kept busy pulling jubilant posts off the thread. When Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her home, we contended for months with posters who appeared to be motivated by religious bigotry doing all they could to smear the family and accuse the father. Several posters openly admitted their religious motivation in opposing Mitt Romney and confessed that no matter how conservative any Mormon was, they would never vote for one for President of the USA. When the Pope died, I don't think any Mormon poster posted anything unkind, yet the thread about the passing of our President recently needed many comments removed.

Nearly every thread having any connection with Mormons, or Utah winds up being hijacked by anti-Mormon activists who copy and paste the same false accusations over and over even when it has been clearly and factually pointed out to them on multiple occasions that they are bearing false witness against our faith. Everything possible is done by these activists to make FR a hostile place for Mormons, and for at least some of them, bashing Mormonism is all they do here. Their most recent project is trying to blur the fact that the polygamous FLDS is a separate and distinct religion from ours, just as Lutherans are a separate and distinct religion from Catholicism.

In our opinion, such poster do a great disservice to FR and to their fellow freepers by spreading disinformation and promoting hostility towards a people known for walking the walk of conservative values.

Why the moderators here don't see the behavior of these anti-Mormon activists as religion bashing is a mystery to us, but it is the moderators call to make and we respect their right to do so. That doesn't mean we have to be passive however. We have all spent many hours refuting the accusations leveled at our faith, but these wind up buried deep in a flood of comments, effectively shouting us down.

Recently some of us have decided to take a more proactive approach. Rather than try to wrestle the pig into taking a bath, we are just going to hose it down. We will actively define our faith here rather than just respond to accusations.

So expect to see lots of Mormon threads, now and for as long as we see fit to keep posting them (although probably not as many as there are Catholic threads). They will be about our basic doctrines and responses to common accusations. If you want to know what our faith is about, read the articles we post. We will post them as open threads and I encourage you to compare the difference in tone and spirit between what we post and what our critics say.


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To: CharlesWayneCT
I wanted you to know I’m withdrawing that sentence. It is not what I meant, nor what I believe, and I apologize.

Fair enough....

But, didn't matter to me anyway.

Like I said...I CAN multi-task........

1,241 posted on 05/12/2008 10:42:51 AM PDT by Osage Orange (molon labe)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
I’m guessing though you wouldn’t mind if an LDS member annoyed people enough that they wouldn’t believe anything about the LDS faith.

I think, more than likely that scenario happens daily..when mormon missionaries knock on the doors of Christians, and non-believers......Personally I don't get annoyed...I witness to them.

Whereas I am guessing you would prefer if the people reading Elsie’s posts would both believe them, and accept their truth, and be turned from their ways.

I'm guessing that most intellectually curious folks would take all the info in...and come to an informed opinion, and or belief.

Without getting into the religious argument any more than I have already, I will say that I have no interest in helping freepers to be persuaded about LDS theology.

Fair enough....

As to any other “annoyance”, I think there are plenty of non-mormons already complaining about it, and my voice added to it would be meaningless.

Once again...fair enough.

1,242 posted on 05/12/2008 10:50:07 AM PDT by Osage Orange (molon labe)
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To: Elsie
“Drop kick me Jesus through the goalposts of life”

Don't care for country.

1,243 posted on 05/12/2008 10:52:02 AM PDT by Invincibly Ignorant
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To: Elsie
“Drop kick me Jesus through the goalposts of life”

but hey a little special music to inspire the groin kickin' ministry shouldn't hurt.

1,244 posted on 05/12/2008 10:56:11 AM PDT by Invincibly Ignorant
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To: restornu
So you choose to receive hard words as arrogance, yet ye choose to dismiss to obey the scriptures you have in your procession!
 
Now Resty; you KNOW you are NOT to criticize ANY of your leaders: living OR dead!!!


TRUTH IGNORED
 
 

Smith, Young, Taylor, Pratt, Snow, Kimbal,l Woodruff ...

 
 
 

 1 Timothy 3:2-3
 2.  Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
 3.  not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.
 
 
1 Timothy 3:12
   A deacon must be the husband of but one wife and must manage his children and his household well.
 
 
 Titus 1:6
   An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.




 
BEHOLD!!!!  The Restorative Power  of the Book of Mormon!!
 



 
THE BOOK OF JACOB
THE BROTHER OF NEPHI
CHAPTER 2
 
  24 Behold, David and Solomon truly had many wives and concubines, which thing was abominable before me, saith the Lord.
  25 Wherefore, thus saith the Lord, I have led this people forth out of the land of Jerusalem, by the power of mine arm, that I might raise up unto me a righteous branch from the fruit of the loins of Joseph.
  26 Wherefore, I the Lord God will not suffer that this people shall do like unto them of old.
  27 Wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and hearken to the word of the Lord: For there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife; and concubines he shall have none;
  28 For I, the Lord God, delight in the chastity of women. And whoredoms are an abomination before me; thus saith the Lord of Hosts.
  29 Wherefore, this people shall keep my commandments, saith the Lord of Hosts, or cursed be the land for their sakes.
  30 For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people; otherwise they shall hearken unto these things.
  31 For behold, I, the Lord, have seen the sorrow, and heard the mourning of the daughters of my people in the land of Jerusalem, yea, and in all the lands of my people, because of the wickedness and abominations of their husbands.
  32 And I will not suffer, saith the Lord of Hosts, that the cries of the fair daughters of this people, which I have led out of the land of Jerusalem, shall come up unto me against the men of my people, saith the Lord of Hosts.
 
 

1,245 posted on 05/12/2008 11:32:28 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Invincibly Ignorant
but hey a little special music to inspire the groin kickin' ministry shouldn't hurt.

Sing me THIS tune:

Galatians 5:12
As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!


Deuteronomy 23:1

1,246 posted on 05/12/2008 11:36:21 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
Galatians 5:12 As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!

Lol. This posted by someone who attended finishing school on a pirate ship. You're priceless.

1,247 posted on 05/12/2008 11:42:39 AM PDT by Invincibly Ignorant
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To: Elsie

Jesus I know, Paul I know, but who are you. BOO!
lol.


1,248 posted on 05/12/2008 11:50:10 AM PDT by Invincibly Ignorant
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To: Invincibly Ignorant
This posted by someone who attended finishing school on a pirate ship.

************

LOLOLOL!

1,249 posted on 05/12/2008 12:03:08 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

Arrrgh!


1,250 posted on 05/12/2008 12:05:13 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

LOL!


1,251 posted on 05/12/2008 12:07:40 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham; Elsie

1,252 posted on 05/12/2008 12:11:22 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: P-Marlowe

LOL!


1,253 posted on 05/12/2008 12:13:26 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham; Elsie
LOL!

R!

1,254 posted on 05/12/2008 12:15:06 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: P-Marlowe; Elsie

One R is never enough. It’s RRRRRRRRRRR! :)


1,255 posted on 05/12/2008 12:17:19 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: P-Marlowe; trisham; Elsie

Some one say R! ?

1,256 posted on 05/12/2008 12:22:42 PM PDT by Godzilla (I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message.)
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To: Godzilla
R!
1,257 posted on 05/12/2008 12:48:53 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: Godzilla

Heh. :)


1,258 posted on 05/12/2008 12:55:51 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Godzilla; P-Marlowe; Larry Lucido; Mr. Brightside; trisham; Elsie

1,259 posted on 05/12/2008 1:00:58 PM PDT by Gamecock (The question is not, “Am I good enough to be a Christian?” rather “Am I good enough not to be?")
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To: Gamecock

LOL! The puffy shirt!


1,260 posted on 05/12/2008 1:02:16 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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