Mormon "hospitality" ... nice to you face-to-face... & then you notice the "tithe settlement" round-up -- where Lds Inc has this pipeline running directly into Mormon bank accounts...
And from this pipeline, a certain portion is devoted to the "attack Christians" coffers.
I don't think Restornu or DU "gets" it.
Analogy:
Let's say DU is 19 again.
Let's say his fiance was a member of another [non-Lds] church in another town.
And say, once a month she would arrive at DU's home and they'd both proceed to head off to a pre-marital counseling program started by your local bishop.
And let's say that every time DU's fiance would talk to his family members, she would accumulatively find out what this bishop really thought of her...in fact, she pieced together various comments that your bishop thought she was...
...a "blasphemer..."
...an "apostate..."
..."corrupt..."
..."of Anti-Christ..."
...and her most cherished beliefs were an "abomination"...
...Oh sure, these "comments" weren't usually directed to her one-on-one in her face...
...but accumulatively, from talking with DU's family members, they would document that these were the exact terms he used...
...and these were just the most common...there were other terms, a few worse...
...and then when she directly confronted the bishop if these things were true, he didn't deny any of them.
Now do you honestly think for a moment, that a fiance's argument to his "bride"...
...when he persistently failed to defend her before the bishop or before his family members...
...an argument that for every one of these critiques the bishop said of her...
...he happened to say 1,000 things positive about other subjects that nothing that have to do with her...
...is going to give you "brownie points" in her eyes?
Wouldn't that actually make things worse? I mean, if Mormons were right -- that their leaders don't spend the rest of their time downgrading anybody else -- well, doesn't that mean in this analogy that the bride-to-be has been singled out for the harshest treatment that the bishop would dish out upon others?
The "bride to be" in this account is the "Bride of Christ," His church.
The accusations of your leaders are hurled at the bride of Christ.
And yet Mormons continue to defend the bishop in this account, and NOT the honor of the Bride.
Tell us, DU, what kind of a bridegroom does that make you? (Especially in her eyes?)
Astonishingly, you appear incapable of shame as you repeatedly insult the host.
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All of you go looking for some kind of imagine fault and if you don’t find it just twist something in to it and than all joint togather and beat your chest!
Sad but true the spirit of contention is deeply deeply entench here none here so far have not bear the fruits of the Lord.
Gal 5
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Civility is not in the devil nor those who carry his water!
Mark 6
11 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.