[P-Marlowe]

re: Posts 8 & 9.

I thought that on open threads it is those who push the abuse button who are the ones considered the disruptors. I pointed out with a couple of pictures the utter hypocrisy of the Author in criticizing the Early Church and accusing the church of apostasy for bringing in elaborate rituals and my posts were pulled.

A picture can say a thousand words. Yet there are some pictures which are not allowed even on open threads because they show what some consider to be "Sacred Temple Rites".

So it is ok to condemn the Catholic Church and the early church for some of their public rituals, but it is not OK to show the secret Mormon rituals, especially where the poster is a Mormon and the article is one which claims that the Catholic Church went into early apostasy because of some of the rituals which they supposedly added to the worship?

Is there a rule that on Open Threads, you can't post a picture of some secret ceremony? Or is it because the Mormon Temple Ritual so much resembles the Masonic Temple Ritual that it is not subject to the same rules that apply to every other religion on Free Republic?

Was the abuse button pushed, or was this an editorial decision by the Mods?

[narses]

A good question. I got booted from an open thread, here the Mormon view gets protected. Why the double standard?

[svcw]

I have decided that what ever ldsers want they get.

[Osage Orange]

It has appeared to me....that "IF" the abuse button gets pushed, or they are pinged...the mods act.

I was warned not too many days ago about making it "personal"......I'm quite sure the abuse button was pushed in that instance. When I pointed out to the mod...that the poster "abused" was a poster with a large piece of lumber in their eye.... the mod then warned them also.

The mods are very busy, I gather. That said, they should when prompted by pinging, and/or the abuse button...look for context.

[FastCoyote]

"Is there a rule that on Open Threads, you can't post a picture of some secret ceremony? Or is it because the Mormon Temple Ritual so much resembles the Masonic Temple Ritual that it is not subject to the same rules that apply to every other religion on Free Republic?"

WhoooHoooo, Cha Ching!

In that same vein, if anyone is trying to clutter up the simplicity of the early church with aposty, I submit the Temples with their Moroni at the tops fit the bill as well.