#1 - I wasn't talking about generic Mormons in this post that you responded to...I was SPECIFICALLY discussing 52,000 Mormon missionaries.
#2 - Allow me to RE-emphasize what I said in my 2nd-to-last graph of my previous post to show the contrast here:
Do you realize that if 52,000 Lds missionaries -- paired up two-by-two -- knocked on 39 doors a day...that's over 1 million DAILY impositions that seems to fly in the face of your "mind your own business" lecture tour?
There's NO WAY you can postulate on what 52,000 Mormon missionaries are doing on their 6-million-+ contacts per week around the world as to how many of them steer clear of your "spiritual meddling" standards...
If only 1% of those "contacts" each week involved spiritual "busybodyism" -- while the other 99% of Mormon missionary contacts showed a high level of "leaving people alone" per their wishes...that still means that 6,000 contacts per week may involve Mormons being busybodies about the spiritual welfare of others.
Me? If they want to do that, hey, it's a free republic.
You? You've already laid down your sword that to be a spiritual "busybody" is a "no-no" that breaks one of your stone commandments.
So, if 6,000 contacts per week among Lds missionaries violates your sacred boundary -- or if it was only half of that -- 3,000 (less than 1/2% of all contacts)...or half it again -- 1,500...tell us...why, oh multi-faced one, would 1,500 to 6,000 per week over-your-boundary contacts be perfectly acceptable to you...but one online vanity bothered you?
Where's your libertarian consistency? (It's gone AWOL)
1) I know many Mormons, some of them being what I consider to be friends, and they are, to a person, good, pleasant, decent people.
2) while some of them have offered to take me to church, and young men on their LDS missions have come to my door, they don't get pushy when I decline their offers. IOW, they don't meddle in my personal business
3) the article apparently is trying to make the point that Mormons are more loyal to the LDS Church than they are to their country, a point that I take issue with, based on my own personal experiences. Even if so...SO WHAT? It's not like any of them but Mitt Romney are running for national office...DINGDINGDING...I think we have a winner! More on this later.
4) similar articles appear regularly on the Free Republic main menu, sometimes bashing Mormons, sometimes Jews, sometimes Catholics, etc
5) sometimes they have all-caps headlines, such as "HAVE YOU NOTICED THIS ABOUT MORMONS?", which are obviously written to provoke people like me to click on them
6) invariably, I come away with the distinct impression that they're nothing but vitriolic rants by former Mormons or religious bigots, intended to poison the opinions of non-Mormons against the LDS Church (or the Catholics, Jews, Evangelicals, etc). In other words, it seems like you're trying to meddle with, or sabotage, my view of Mormons. Well, I can make up my own mind, thank you very much.
Given that the frequency of anti-LDS screeds has seemingly increased since the 2008 campaign, I'm pretty sure their root purpose is to convince people to not support Mitt Romney. If so, they're completely unnecessary. He has plenty enough baggage without having to bash his religion, and in the process paint all Mormons with the same broad brush. Does Romney put the LDS Church above his nation? Maybe. Do the Mormons I work with put the church above their nation? I seriously doubt it, and if they do, SO WHAT? It's their business, not mine, and not yours.
Your campaign against the LDS Church is unnecessary, at best. At worst, your Mormon-bashing is only making yourselves look like hateful, bigoted, meddling busybodies.
Have a great evening.
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