This is like watching a political mudslinging. The anti-Mormons are trying to actually pretend that all of the history of their almost daily attacks doesn’t exist. Oh so innocent and picked on by the Mormons. /eyeroll
I am sticking with the term anti-Mormons. Our religion is an integral part of us. You know exactly what we mean. Playing Bill Clinton word games is merely a distraction. Yet another non-issue being flag waved and pointed at.
I am sticking with the term anti-Mormons
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and we will stick with anti-Christians when referring to mormons...
After all Mormonism is not Christianity...
You know, before reading this, I actually just addressed this on another thread...with a poster who assumed all of us "religious folk" were "united" and some nasty FReepers were trying to "divide & conquer." So, since it addresses what you just said, I'll quote an excerpt from that post:
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...let's just pretend for a moment that not a single FR poster has ever said one single thing "negative" about any Mormon belief. Would that somehow muster your fantasy that we're "united???" Really?
Have you ever read Mormon "scriptures" and what they specifically said about all Christian sects?
Do the Mormons portray a "show of unity" with the Christian church?
* Is it a "peace offering" by the Mormon church for them to cite the Book of Mormon, 1 Nephi 14:9-10, which claims that only 2 churches exist -- the church of the Lamb (the Mormon church) -- and the church of Satan (the Christian church)?
* Is it Kum-ba-yahville for Mormons to claim that every single Christian professing believer is "corrupt" (Joseph Smith used the word "all" [applying to "all" such believers]?
* Is it "Unity Central" for Mormons to claim that 100% of Christian creeds are "an abomination" to their god?
[Note: These statements weren't just from 'overpassionate' sermons given by Smith; they were claims from the original vision of Mormonism, which a later generation of Mormons decided was worth counting as 'scripture'...look it up on Google for yourselves...just put in Joseph Smith - History + "Pearl of Great Price" ... read verses 18-20]
I mean, how ludicrous...to somehow claim somebody is trying to "divide" us when you don't utter a single phrase about what Mormons have called us Christians for 180 years -- and to boot, claimed this is what "God" thinks of us!
Do you think...that Beck, a disciple of Joseph Smith, is "honoring" the Christian church when Beck believes what Smith said in Doctrines & Covenant 1:30 -- that the Mormon church "is the ONLY true and living church on the face of the earth"???
How is that "unifying" for two-faced Mormons to say wonderful things to our face, and then turn the other way, pull out their wallets, and pay for these above comments to published as written slander in over 100 languages spread around the world?
...and disseminated online 24/7?
...and by person-to-person (52,000 Lds missionaries & Lds teachers using curricula as ALL of them call ALL Christians "apostates")?
So when Muslims call all Christians "infidels," we're just supposed to say, "Why, how flattering! You know our loving Mormon brothers and sisters say the same thing of us only they use the 'loving' byword of 'apostates.' Isn't that just precious? Come. Let's all join in the Kum-ba-yah refrain, lest those nasty FReepers come & try to 'divide & conquer us.'"
I’m not surprised you’ve taken this approach. Seeing as how you and the other mormons would lose some of your outside support if you had the balls to actually challenge the assertions made by other FReepers.
Like I said before, accusing or implying that another FReeper could have been thought to have been responsible for this man’s actions is beneath contempt. What’s even more informative is the complete lack of condemnation (ergo support for) of said comments or behavior.
You mormons have done more than we could have ever hoped for. By hiding behind parsed words and sentences, twisting and dancing in some instances to afford one’s self plausible deniability, demonstrates the true nature of you all here on FR.
I have not, nor will I ever play “Bill Clinton word games”, go talk to the first two of your defenders who were doing that in the first 50 or so posts. Then go talk to one of your fellow mormons who asked what the FReeper name was of the shooter.
If you have the courage and the balls to do so and to address those you’re actually referring to, get back with me.
The respect goes both ways, if you can’t afford to demonstrate it, let me know and we can get back to the confrontational methods used before.
The ball is in your court PD