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Posted on 05/08/2008 5:04:47 PM PDT by Grig
I am posting this on behalf of many LDS freepers. They will post their own 'signature' to this in the comments below. --- Some of you have noticed lately a lot of LDS (ie: Mormon) threads here on FR. I'm going to tell you why.
For many years there have been several active LDS freepers here. We post to all the forums on relevant issues, and were happy to have a site where conservative values were so openly welcomed.
Those conservative values include faith in God, and freedom of religion. We fully respect the rights of all posters to express their opinions and views on religious matters, even when people choose to use those rights to express criticism of our own faith. We also support the ideas embodied in FR rules against religion bashing. There is no need for hostility and there should be no room for bigotry on FR. Every religion has it's miracles and mysteries. Every faith has things in it that are not or can not be proven, and things that run contrary to what secular science would have us believe. Someone mature and confident in their own faith generally doesn't feel the need to belittle the faith of others.
We have, to the best of our ability, conducted ourselves with civility and dignity. We do not feel that that respect has been returned by some posters (putting it mildly).
When Mormon missionaries were murdered, the moderators were kept busy pulling jubilant posts off the thread. When Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her home, we contended for months with posters who appeared to be motivated by religious bigotry doing all they could to smear the family and accuse the father. Several posters openly admitted their religious motivation in opposing Mitt Romney and confessed that no matter how conservative any Mormon was, they would never vote for one for President of the USA. When the Pope died, I don't think any Mormon poster posted anything unkind, yet the thread about the passing of our President recently needed many comments removed.
Nearly every thread having any connection with Mormons, or Utah winds up being hijacked by anti-Mormon activists who copy and paste the same false accusations over and over even when it has been clearly and factually pointed out to them on multiple occasions that they are bearing false witness against our faith. Everything possible is done by these activists to make FR a hostile place for Mormons, and for at least some of them, bashing Mormonism is all they do here. Their most recent project is trying to blur the fact that the polygamous FLDS is a separate and distinct religion from ours, just as Lutherans are a separate and distinct religion from Catholicism.
In our opinion, such poster do a great disservice to FR and to their fellow freepers by spreading disinformation and promoting hostility towards a people known for walking the walk of conservative values.
Why the moderators here don't see the behavior of these anti-Mormon activists as religion bashing is a mystery to us, but it is the moderators call to make and we respect their right to do so. That doesn't mean we have to be passive however. We have all spent many hours refuting the accusations leveled at our faith, but these wind up buried deep in a flood of comments, effectively shouting us down.
Recently some of us have decided to take a more proactive approach. Rather than try to wrestle the pig into taking a bath, we are just going to hose it down. We will actively define our faith here rather than just respond to accusations.
So expect to see lots of Mormon threads, now and for as long as we see fit to keep posting them (although probably not as many as there are Catholic threads). They will be about our basic doctrines and responses to common accusations. If you want to know what our faith is about, read the articles we post. We will post them as open threads and I encourage you to compare the difference in tone and spirit between what we post and what our critics say.
No; you did not - you merely PARAPHRASED it.
Please; to show II how DUMB I am; REPOST your 'answer' here so a reasonable discussion of it's merits can take place.
WE know.
You just want to play YOUR games.
Oh, my!
If THAT happened, to each subject we talk about on these threads; they'd be VERY short!
Maybe a bit of music will soothe your troubled spirit...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmpVkocKipI
Of course, I imagine the Unitarians might, but I couldn’t find a link on their web site.
It’s NOT hard to find!
http://www.uua.org/visitors/beliefswithin/index.shtml
No thanks necessary! You said it all, and very well, at that!
Only God gives truth, not Joseph Smith who has NO power of truth or discipleship to the Lord, but only to himself.
Your post:
The big difference between the two is that one is doing as Jesus instructed...
“go ye therefore and teach all nations”
The other is doing just the opposite.
2 Pet 2:1 [NIV] But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
And yet Mormons have to PROVE their WORTHINESS to get a Temple Recommend!
Go figger!
Actually, the screen name is from a B&W Cary Grant movie with Myrna Loy, when he said to her, "You must be Monkey Face!" I took it (and TAKE it!) as a compliment!
But you have to admit, it's funny! ;o]
LOL!
Just so your failures aren’t glued to you...
Why do I drink water? Because if I didn’t my organs would fail, my skin would crumble, and I would die. ;-)
But to answer your question...
http://scriptures.lds.org/dc/27/2#2
My poor answer; for verses 3/4 is a COMMAND of god. Why do you guys drink WATER?!
1 Listen to the voice of Jesus Christ, your Lord, your God, and your Redeemer, whose word is quick and powerful.
(Beware that out-of-context problem (^;
Watch them closely, and if you see them talking to the Russians, use the poison umbrella on them. ;o]
My recollection is that there was criticism of the way Huckabee acted in public regarding religion, but not of the Southern Baptist religion itself.
I don't recall seeing any postings which specifically dissed the doctrine and traditions of the Southern Baptist church, although I did see hundreds of postings which openly trashed the faith and traditions of the Mormon church.
I am a devout Baptist myself, and I remain totally embarassed at many on FR who continue to ridicule and deride the traditions and doctine of the Mormon church.
No one has absolute knowledge of religious truth. No one can claim that THEY are the absolute correct interpreters of the Holy Bible.
Yet many try to disrespect good and decent men like Mitt Romney via smarmy attacks on things which happened in the Mormon faith some 150 years ago.
You never know when an angel will knock on your door. “Do unto the least of these, my brethren, and you have done it unto me.” What more encouragement does one need to do a kind deed?
Excellent testimony, and yet, not “uncommon.” Thanks for posting it. I was feeling a little low, and it brought me right out of it! Thanks!
That's for sure.
*whispers* :OK. so I ain’t neat:
You KNOW they’re looking for OIL...
Irrational hatred huh? I think I would call it rational distrust. And believe me, I’ve distrusted the Mormons for far longer (I was one by birth and baptism) than any of you knew who Mitt Romney was. This has very little to do with Mitt, other than he finally made it a topic of conversation.
You might want to check out this thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2013940/posts
If that (not conservative) was the only reason given, fine.
But go back and read all the vile postings which brought up things that some Mormon member did 150 years ago.
Or how bout all the accusatory postings about Mormon underwear, or Mormon doctrine, or Mormon communion, or the rituals inside a Mormon tabernacle church. (which I really know nothing about)
I saw hundreds of postings which in essence accused Mitt Romney of being not qualified because of these doctrinal differences.
I found it truly disgusting, and remain astonished to this day that it was allowed to continue for so long on FR.
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