Why so many LDS threads?

08-May-2008 | Grig

[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.

[Elsie]

 

I've decided it has nothing to do with light. lol.

Actually: it does...

 

 

 

 

 

2 Corinthians 11:12-15
 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.
 13.  For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
 14.  And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
 15.  It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.

Like THESE guys??

 

 

http://scriptures.lds.org/en/js_h/1/19#19

 

 

17 It no sooner appeared than I found myself delivered from the enemy which held me bound. When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other—This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!

 

 

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Ephesians 2:1-2

   As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,  in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.

[CharlesWayneCT]

You do post that way too often.

[Invincibly Ignorant]

You can quote scripture all you want dude. Your actions speak quite loudly thank you.

[Elsie]

Ya and you're certainly an expert on behavior. lol.

Geneology, too.

I'd GUESS that you and OMM share a LOT of the same genes.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I will note that there are many Christian churches who, contrary to the clear meaning of those scriptures that you imply, will allow women to be elders and deacons.

And others who, thinking themselves better, refuse women, but will appoint single men as deacons.

Whereas some churches even argue that you have to have children.

[Invincibly Ignorant]

Ok then; I'll be glad to give vent to your fetish.

I told ya. You're quite sexy. :-)

[Elsie]

I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

The RESTORED or the UN-restored?

[Elsie]

I get that a lot... ;^)

[Elsie]

Ok... (but those were rollerblades!)

[ansel12]

“Some denominations don’t reject Mormons as christians.”

OK, so which are those denominations?

[Elsie]

tHAT, TOO! ;^)

[Invincibly Ignorant]

Just curious. After a day sparring on these threads, when you’re in prayer does Jesus tell ya “job well done thou good and faithful servent”? lol.

[Tennessee Nana]

His Atoning Sacrifice
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[Invincibly Ignorant]

Ok... (but those were rollerblades!)

Rollerblades on ice? Makes about as much sense as your doctrine. lol.

[Elsie]

You do post that way too often.

I'm a hopeful optimist in that perhaps SOMEDAY a mormon could actually ANSWER it!

[Ron Jeremy]

I'm sort of a deist I guess, and so have no side in this. But, it seems to me that:

1. The mormons on FR tend to obfuscate when arguing doctrine/theology.

2. Anyone who believes the story about Joseph Smith looking into a hat to read the plates is worthy of a fair amount of mockery.

3. At the same time, there are some real jerk protestants around here who I am sure have said inappropriate things about y'all.

[Elsie]

 

After a day sparring on these threads, when you’re in prayer does Jesus tell ya “job well done thou good and faithful servent”? lol.

 

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NIV Acts 17:16-23
 16.  While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols.
 17.  So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there.
 18.  A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to dispute with him. Some of them asked, "What is this babbler trying to say?" Others remarked, "He seems to be advocating foreign gods." They said this because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.
 19.  Then they took him and brought him to a meeting of the Areopagus, where they said to him, "May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?
 20.  You are bringing some strange ideas to our ears, and we want to know what they mean."
 21.  (All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas.)
 22.  Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: "Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.

 

 

NIV Acts 18:11
   So Paul stayed for a year and a half, teaching them the word of God.

 

NIV 1 Corinthians 4:17
   For this reason I am sending to you Timothy, my son whom I love, who is faithful in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which agrees with what I teach everywhere in every church.

 

NIV 1 Corinthians 11:2-3
   I praise you for remembering me in everything and for holding to the teachings,  just as I passed them on to you.

 

 

NIV 2 Thessalonians 2:15-16
   So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the teachings  we passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by letter.
 

 

NIV 2 Timothy 1:13
   What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in Christ Jesus.
 

 

NIV 2 Timothy 3:14-15
 14.  But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it,
 15.  and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

[Elsie]

Rollerblades on ice? Makes about as much sense as your doctrine. lol.

Studded wheels; you silly Wabbit!