Daniel Peterson wrote:...his "informant's" having sleuthed out a "wish list" under my name on amazon.com...
The amount of sleuthing required to access your "Wish List" involves no more than having a look at your amazon.com profile (which is public, by the way).
(Re: "There is something going on in my life..." -- Hope everything's okay with you and yours. Be well!)
I read Yahoo Bot's post to mean that he saw William as neither "Christian" nor "decent," or that he has no place among the people of God. And if I did read him right, that's really his soteriological/theological call to make.
I didn't see it as a call for the termination of his civil rights or anything like that because I don't view the U. S. at large as a theocracy or a "Christian society," even if some Christians choose to describe it that way.
And for the record, Amazon Wish Lists can be public or private; the user controls the settings. Many people make them public so that friends and relatives can buy them books off their wish list if they need a gift idea. It's what I do.
"It seems to me that these women were the head (κεφάλαιον) of the church which was at Philippi." ~ John Chrysostom, Homilies on Philippians 13
Dr. Shades wrote:IS DR. SHADES RESPONSIBLE FOR THE "CULTURE" OF MORMONDISCUSSIONS.COM?
1) I don't see a coherent monolithic culture here.
2) It's a great message board that has withstood the test of time and Dr. Shades should be quite proud.
3) In a free speech zone there will be things said that others find objectionable. Opinions will vary on matters of taste and the limits of propriety. No surprise.
4) Nemesis is being quite unfair.
when believers want to give their claims more weight, they dress these claims up in scientific terms. When believers want to belittle atheism or secular humanism, they call it a "religion". -Beastie
yesterday's Mormon doctrine is today's Mormon folklore.-Buffalo