Years of their loathing speak for itself .... Amen
AS A MAN THINKETH IN HIS HEART
http://www.stillvoices.org/sermons/baxter/010966.pdf
...and if one thinks like a viper, faulting, backstabber what does that make one?
Oh, yea when are you going to condemn the perp rather than rag on the posters?
Calling others "vipers" doesn't change the fact that those doing so are enablers, and those of us who post the truth in plain sight are certainly not doing it behind anyone's back.
Mormon clergy can ALWAYS find a "reasonable and necessary" reason to protect the mormon church from bad press...unfortunately the two bishops who used that "reasonable and necessary" excuse ended up causing more problems in the long run...for themselves AND the mormon church.
Had either of these two bishops done the moral instead of "the reasonable and necessary" (reasonable and necssary???) thing they would have been seen as heroic in protecting a child from a full year of continued abuse by exposing a criminal that happened to be married to a man with some power in the community.
So much for the much vaunted "discernment" of the holders of the mormon "priesthood".
I firmly believe that had this woman been married to Joe the plumber she would have been reported to law enforcement and immediately called to a "Court of Love" and excommunicated.
And if one cannot do anything but call those who disagree vile and despicable names, what does that make one?
Your words are like vinegar on the tongue.
What a great example of mormonism and its inability to rationally respond to criticism.
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Winston Churchill
Ah, what "winsome" spirits you and MissesBush have been this thread...first Missesbush labeling fellow conservative posters as "tools of Satan" and now you Resty, referencing posters as "vipers."
I suggest both of you sign up to conduct a session at a Mormon Training Center entitled "How to 'Win Over' those you encounter who disagree with our teachings in just a few easy steps!"
Be sure you both start workin' on that 'hiss' as you relive all those Mormon temple ceremonies from the 80s and before where Mormons would accuse in highly bigoted ways of Christian ministers of being paid workers of Satan...here...I'll quote the Tanners on that one:
One very important change in the [Mormon] temple ceremony is the removal of a portion of the ceremony in which the Devil hired a Christian minister to preach the "orthodox religion" to the people. This portion of the ceremony made it clear that in the eyes of the Mormon leaders the orthodox Christian religion was the Devil's religion. In the 1984 version of the temple ritual, the Devil tells the minister that if "you will preach your orthodox religion to these people, and convert them, I will pay you well." This, of course, led the Mormon people to believe that Christian ministers were really working for the Devil. In Mormonism, Magic and Masonry, p. 66, we wrote: "...the temple ritual tries to link Christians and ministers of other churches to the Devil's work. We feel that this is one of the most objectionable things about the ceremony, and we do not feel that a Christian would want to give any support to this type of thing." Many other Christians protested against this part of the ceremony, and a great deal of pressure has been put on the Mormon leaders to change it.In the new version all of the material making fun of both Protestants and Catholics has been completely eliminated.
Source: http://www.utlm.org/newsletters/no76.htm
ALL: See how bigoted/intolerant and offensive Mormondom has been? -- and any attempt to critique Mormonism in response to Mormonism's ongoing vicious attacks on Christians results in even more viciousness by Mormon defenders like Resty & MissesBush.
Just for you, Resty!