Hey, CB.... You raise a good point.
I wonder what chris's feelings are on the Mormon missionaries out there pounding the pavement and pounding on doors across America, trying to make converts to THEIR religion. I mean for someone who hates religion so much, why be a selective religion hater and hate only Christianity?
I have been wondering for a person who hates religion so deeply why he spends so much time and effort talking about it.
Why not just ignore the religion forum all together.
Really I can not stand egg custard, so I stay away from it - just saying.
My thoughts exactly. We are exhorted to stand up to false prophets and teaching. That exhortation must not be in whatever books others use to define the faith they espouse.
It might surprise you to know this, metmom, but I do not hate Christianity, and I also do not hate Mormonism.
The only religion that I hate, and that is a strong word and I will use it here, is Islam. The reason I hate it is because that belief system, and by extension those people who believe it, have declared themselves to be my mortal enemy and have further taken action to prove that they mean it.
I do not like what you and others in these threads are doing in terms of bashing Mormons, and yes it upsets me, but hate is not an emotion that I feel towards either religion. At the same time, I also do not wish to join or practice either.
As far as Mormons on their missions that they do, it isn’t something that I approve of, and I do not talk to them when they come. I also hold no ill will toward them. I would advise them to keep their belief system to their churches and congregations and let those who would join them actually come to them of their own free will.