Mitt's our Boy for President (link)

[Guest]

It is so sad when people relish in bashing on people. SO much energy in demonizing a group of people.

I thought we as a society progressed beyond hatemongering???

Guess not.

JMS

You must've slept through the LDS church's support of Prop 8.

Daniel2

[_Daniel2]

I wonder how seriously any Mormon takes a disgruntled ex-Catholic or ex-Protestant who bears their testimony at church after being recently baptized a Mormon. Surely anything that person says about their former religion cannot be trusted.

Oddly enough, many Mormons also quite like what "ex-gays" have to say and put a lot of stock in it. ;)

Daniel2

[_ldsfaqs]

There is a big difference between ex-other religions, gays, etc., and those that join the Church.

People that join the Church almost never have a hatred and bigotry toward their former faith, nor do they bear false witness of their former faith.

However, ex-mormons who are now anti-mormons DO do these things.
It's the BIGOTRY that invalidates the anti-mormon arguments, not that being "ex" something isn't sometimes useful to compare.

No Christian would take seriously the claims of Atheists or Islam against the Christian Faith.
So, to Mormons, it fascinates us that they take the claims of our enemy's so seriously. It's a double standard and hypocritical.

[_Drifting]

There is a big difference between ex-other religions, gays, etc., and those that join the Church.

People that join the Church almost never have a hatred and bigotry toward their former faith, nor do they bear false witness of their former faith.

However, ex-mormons who are now anti-mormons DO do these things.
It's the BIGOTRY that invalidates the anti-mormon arguments, not that being "ex" something isn't sometimes useful to compare.

No Christian would take seriously the claims of Atheists or Islam against the Christian Faith.
So, to Mormons, it fascinates us that they take the claims of our enemy's so seriously. It's a double standard and hypocritical.

This tells far more about Mormonism than I think you intended...

[_Infymus]

People that join the Church almost never have a hatred and bigotry toward their former faith, nor do they bear false witness of their former faith.

I didn't, but after being Mormon, I learned to. I was taught my prior church was a wrong, didn't have the authority, nor the priesthood and wasn't lead by a Prophet. I was taught all churches were evil, wrong. I began to have hatred and bigotry towards my prior faith. Mormonism taught me these things. What was the first lesson? Joseph Smith told not to join any other churches. When I started reading McConkie, Kimball, it grew even more. When I first read the Book of Mormon and saw that the Catholic church was called a "whore", it grew. When i read McConkie and saw the hateful, bigoted teachings, it grew.

No Christian would take seriously the claims of Atheists or Islam against the Christian Faith. So, to Mormons, it fascinates us that they take the claims of our enemy's so seriously. It's a double standard and hypocritical.

Enemies? Faqs, you forget your Cult doctrine so conveniently. Do I have to dump out all the bigoted material your Cult has spouted about non-Mormon churches, including Islam?

You're such a Mormon snob.

[_sock puppet]

It is so sad when people relish in bashing on people. SO much energy in demonizing a group of people.

Interesting. It is the dynamics of the grouping of them that is demonized, and those that use it as a tool against others in the grouping. The members are victims of their Mormon leaders.

[_Buffalo]

We've got several ex-Catholics who regularly stand up in class and mock the Catholic church. No one ever objects.

[_Infymus]

That's exactly how I see your website. A childish temper tantrum.

JMS

What is on Mormon Curtain that is factually incorrect?

He won't and he can't. Because when you get right down to it, most of the material on the MC is personal contributed stories of the lives of those who were Mormon. Most of the other material is 100% quoted church material written by past and present leaders of the Cult. Stuff Stains doesn't want anyone to see. And like most apologists, Stains just wants Ex-Mormons to go away and shut up - he wants to invalidate their pain.

The MC is carefully constructed, well presented, categorized, easy to read and easy to navigate. It presents information in a way that the reader can find the information that Mormons like Faqs and Stains doesn't want people to see. It isn't fancy by any means and it isn't meant to be. Attack the HTML? Really?

Stains is the one throwing the temper tantrum. And I'll reaffirm my challenge to him or anyone else. Come up with a website as large as the MC - with as much information as I have about the Cult. Spend the dedicated time - the YEARS - working on it. Provide a community to support the website and help those in need.

Stains and those like him won't because a pro-LDS site would be just as damaging to the faith of Mormons as the MC is - unless you act just like MAD and censor everything. Doctrines of Mormonism have to be whitewashed, hidden, omitted, retracted, speaking as a man, don't know we teach that, sanitized. Best thing to do is go make a website were people flash their college degrees and parrot "I know the Church is true".

Stains, qwitcherbitchen and actually do something more than whinge.