My thanks to the RM at FR. When I first started posting on the Religion Forum, I was totally unprepared. Over the years I have learned to make my posts “not personal.”
Thank you for helping me hone my skills, sharpen my thoughts, still my tongue (when necessary), and quit taking every slight personally.
FR has helped me learn, grow, and it has toughened my resolve, and it was due to the Religion Moderators.
Thank you.
One of the problems has been that the anti-Mormons tend to say “Mormons believe....” which is not always true. If they do believe some of that stuff, they hide it. As best I can tell,the LDS church is run like an MLM. The uplines know a lot about the church. The downlines aren’t as well-versed, especially if they are later converts. They aren’t exactly sitting around reading D&C and Pearl. My LDS neighbor said they will barely read the BOM. That’s why they have to push it.
The difference between Mormons and Protestants is that Mormons don’t feel comfortable criticizing their church (or any church publicly). Protestants treat it like a sacrament.
AMEN!
(Even when it was a MORMOphilic one!)