Saturday, May 10, 2008 12:31:50 AM · by sevenbak
http://www.cumorah.com/etexts/jesusthechrist.txt ^ | James E. Talmage
Posted on 05/03/2008 6:58:15 PM PDT by Alex Murphy
Borat. QED
FWIW, the last 3 Threads that have been posted are about Mormonism:
Yup
This is a good example of your odd hobby. Is this belief of yours a tenet of faith expounded upon in the Protestant Catechism? Because the Catholic Catechism flatly refutes the notion on which your belief is based. I am almost certain you have been made aware of this error, yet you persist in your belief.
That is where Borat fits in. Borat believed that all American women wanted to have sex with him. He took a small facet of American culture and allowed it to mushroom into a giant lie that perverted him and made him a ludicrous character. IIRC he was corrected about that misperception, but tenaciously clung to it....well....it was a very appealing belief. But his acting out that belief was usually considered very offensive....when he was not taken as an ignorant buffoon.
While one can easily relate to a false belief that would satisfy the basest sex drive ( for satirical effect after all ), it is more difficult to understand the need to persist in distorting the facts concerning a faith group's traditional devotions. The distortions appear to only serve as strawmen to be toppled by the convenient bible quote.
Instead of locking the thread, why not ban the poster who comes in and posts content-free attacks at other posters, who posts threats to become even more abusive (but within the rules), because he/she doesn't like the idea of shutting down the verbal abuse that goes on here most days?
Why do you permit bad posting behavior to drive out good posting behavior?
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Why do you permit bad posting behavior to drive out good posting behavior?
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This thread has inspired some sorely needed discussion of an issue/issues that have been festering in the Religion Forum for some time. Allowing bad behaviour by some to put an end to that would, ironically, be one more example of that to which some of us have been objecting.
Poking the threads with sharp sticks is a method of deflating the bible babble and ending the thread and waste of bandwidth
ROTFL!!!!
Those weren't my words that you're disagreeing with.
I was disagreeing with your own personal interpretation of Scripture.
You certainly are. You say Catholics deify Mary. It's absolutely false. You are entitled to your opinion but you are not entitled to your own facts.
Sometimes I think it’s a Marian dogma for RC’s to make things personal on FR, whenever workable.
NOT at all!
It’s quite nice to feel comfortable ignoring them.
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If something were to be done about the trolling, spamming, mocking and taunting that takes place in this forum, what then?
Some here might adjust, others might not.
And here we have the very reason for the Reformation itself — because Rome cannot be challenged, all disagreement must be obliterated., or at the very least dismissed as “diatribes” by “trolls.”
There must be some Catholics out there who recognize how to debate issues without declaring the discussion null and void simply because it does not like the counter-argument.
Some of these suggestions being made by Catholics on this thread would be laughable if they weren’t so sad, and would be tantamount to either closing the Religion Forum or putting up a sign, “NO PROTESTANTS ALLOWED.”
And just once I would like to see a Catholic count up the number of Catholic threads and compare them to the number of Protestant threads on the RF. It is easily 10 to one.
It very often feels like some Catholic posters here will not be happy until that ratio is 10 to zero.
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INDEED.
Quite ghastly.
And what angers me . . . is all this tumbling out so eggregiously with JimRob not in the best of health. Like, he really NEEDS this.
At the risk of sending the RC’s into flights of ecstasy, I’m praying about bowing out just for JimRob’s health and sanity at this trying time. It really outrages me that they’d mount such a push at this time. However, given the centuries of worse skullduggary, doesn’t really surprise me.
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