Undecided readers,
If you peruse the Free Republic religion forums you will notice a pattern. There’s an anti-Mormon group of people here that spends a great deal of their time attacking the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. They post regurgitated propaganda on an almost daily basis.
They have a misguided obsession. You can witness many different tactics employed that you might find quite interesting. The straw man argument is a big favorite and is frequently preceded by cherry-picking quotes or other material. After the “quotation” the attacker will misrepresent what has been said or what was meant and then attack their own interpretation. You’ll likely see perfect examples of just this shortly after I post.
Sometimes they cruise the headlines of the day seeking any story that might be twisted into making the Church look bad. Anything will do, just watch the progression of posts following it and see what I mean.
After reading their posts, I invite you to seek the truth about whatever “issue” they seem to be “revealing” or “exposing”. I promise that if you do so with honest intent, the “ahah” moments you will have will be many and frequent. You will start to recognize the tactics employed to cleverly twist and attack and will likely chuckle the more you see. In actuality, there’s nothing new here. It’s all been addressed many times before.
Here’s a few links to get your started from a different viewpoint. I have found that the vast majority of the “issues” brought up can be found and addressed at http://www.fairlds.org/ but here’s more:
http://scriptures.lds.org/
http://www.lds.org
http://www.fairlds.org/
http://www.mormonwiki.com/Main_Page
http://www.lightplanet.com/response/index.html
http://www.jefflindsay.com/LDS_Intro.shtml
http://www.answeringantimormons.com/index.htm
http://promormon.blogspot.com/
All I've seen anti Mormonism posters post is from Mormon sources and yet you refer to it as, "regurgitated propaganda".
Yes; and that's PD will show up with his HAYSTACK method of answering questions.
Damn it!
I'm not doing the work FOR you; dig out the needle for yourself!
Undecided readers,
If you peruse the Free Republic religion forums you will notice a pattern. There’s a group of cultists, known as mormons. While you cannot see the magic underwear they wear as they type their posts, it (apparently) gives them powers to obfuscate and demean others with generalities, while avoiding ever giving a factual answer.
Beware their links to the perverted and historically condemned doctrines of demons - mormonism.
Many of us here are Christians, who believe the Bible, and consequently are posting to expose these perversions of the Scriptures and of the person of Christ. It turns out that cultists do not appreciate it when someone invalidates their experience.
Beware their attempts to style themselves as Christians, while denying the Church, the Savior, in fact, God, and making Them into a created things.
Beware their strawman arguments.
Beware their attempts to generalize while avoiding any:
...Facts
...Evidence
...Logical reasoning
They often try to portray Christians who are fulfilling the commands to expose evil as “bashers” or “anti-mormons”. This is convenient for them, but false. We oppose the doctrine of mormonism...
... Just as the Apostle Paul did:
“But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned!”
- Galatians 1:8
Yep, I guess posting these links again and again and again is a pattern.
Links for people to find the truth of particular matters.
http://www.irr.org/mit/default.html
http://www.exmormonsforjesus.org/
http://4mormon.org/ex-mormon.php