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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.
That is the biggest load of crappola you ever posted (and that says a lot). Moreover, it has nothing to do with what he said about the false "priesthood" of Mormons.
Further, you didn't address anything of significance he said in that video.
You continue to wave your hand, and pretend he didn't lay out the facts.
Just be a man (for once) and own up to the fact that he is not a "liar" or "mistaken." He is an ex-Mormon, who was in the Bishopric, who is now a born again Christian - and everything he exposed about the false "authority" of "melchelzidek" priesthood was correct.
Nostalgia bump ;)
Yeah, I had one of those bumps but I lanced it and it’s pretty much is gone now.
It’s good to know my life is not in vain. thanks and I love the dog!
Dang!
These Zombies resurrect themselves!
An oldie but a goodie...
Play it Sam...
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Electronic Road Sign ALERT!!
Lest we forget...
ping for later reading.
HI NANA!!
You are quite far off with that statement.
I've noticed that Mormons are obsessed with "denominations" so as to have the LDS seen as a Christian denomination.
In fact "freedom of religion" back then meant freedom to belong to any denomination, and not have one religion (Christian denomination) as the one representing America.
It had nothing to do with freedom of non-Christian religions like Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc.
For example, the FLDS is a denomination of the LDS religion.
They have the same base and starting point.
Your statement, "Lutherans are a separate and distinct religion from Catholicism" is off base.
Both are Christian denominations, but the exact same religion.
They have the same starting point.
If you wish to post some quotes from history (Christian history, not Mormon history) that prove your point about how Christianity is structured, I would like to see that.
When ever I post something about the Mormon religion, I always point to the writings of the LDS church.
Where as Nana been? She missed all the excitement!
Her computer has been down...fixed...down again...looking for her back any time.
I missed her.
It’s going to be quiet here for the next little while. I’m trying to withdraw sloooowly, so as not to shock my system.
LOL your tagline ;)
Puffilump nostalgia fish.
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