1) I've caught both at it.
2) Unless you're God, YOU DO NOT KNOW what the other guy is thinking.
I was told when I was preparing to go on a [Group X] mission to specifically NOT TEACH or outright LIE about certain doctrines
OK, fine. What you were told to do is part of your witness. That's part of this forum, and IMO perfectly reasonable. Unless you're God, or you were there, YOU DO NOT KNOW what the other guy was told to do.
I can provide documentation to teachings of the
I can provide quotes from Ronald Reagan's speeches where he says "I am ... a ... Communist". Note the clever elipses. It's very easy, and very wrong, to twist the other guy's foundational documents so they appear to say something that nobody who actually follows that belief system actually believes. Whether one has actually been a member of "Group X" or not, one should always be careful to present "Group X's" beliefs the way "Group X" actually understands them. Failing to do so simply makes one look ignorant and ridiculous, particularly so to members of "Group X".
It’s very easy, and very wrong, to twist the other guy’s foundational documents so they appear to say something that nobody who actually follows that belief system actually believes.
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I agree, but it is ‘group X’ that twists their own ‘foundational documents’ rather than those who expose things they would rather keep hidden.
Group X tends to project their behavior on the ‘anti Group x’ people,, in my experience.
BTW, the comment wasn’t made to me, it was made to over 200 people and made more than one semester. It is a common teaching.