There is quite a "persecution complex" brouhaha underway over on the aptly named MADboard. Cjcampbell and others, taking a cue from Ray A, and beginning to contemplate the horrors of LDS "concentration camps" and "ovens," all because Mitt Romney failed to secure the Republican nomination.
Amidst all this self-righteous hand-wringing, though, juliann herself has been toying with stereotypes:
juliann wrote:
Pastors4huckabee wrote:A true Christian on the other hand is simply concerned with pleasing His Lord and doing that by obeying what the Bible says. So, without further introduction, to answer the question, “Can a Christian support or vote for a Mormon,” let us see what the Bible says.
1 John 2:18 (18) Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
They do think Mormons are antiChristian as the reporter picked up on in the article being discussed in another thread. This has gone beyond and I think will continue to go beyond the "yer not Christian and I am" bigotry.
(bold emphasis added)
Notice her rather distasteful use of "yer" in her rendering of these folks' speech. I have to wonder: does this reveal a form of bigotry which Ms. Reynolds has been harboring? Does she "hate" people who speak this way, and who believe differently than she does?
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What else would you expect from her? On the "virulent anti-mormon" thread, she had this to say about how stupid EVs are:
Bigotry for the most part shows up in some similar configurations. It emerges in the less educated and lower socioeconomic classes with much more regularity. As a group, Evs are the least educated of all religions.
I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe / But at least I'm enjoying the ride.
-Grateful Dead (lyrics by John Perry Barlow)
Hello,
I feel like I have been persecuted by Juliann. She had a huge hand in kicking me off the "FAIR"/MA&D Message Board, and she or Dan G. doesn't want me to come back on that Message Board to start Posting again over there.
"And I've said it before, you want to know what Joseph Smith looked like in Nauvoo, just look at Trump." - Fence Sitter
Scratch, if you got from the MA&D thread on "virulent" anti-Mormomism that it was because Romney quit, you weren't reading. It was from an article which appeared in the Wall Street Journal. I don't think that newspaper originates in Utah, but I guess in all humility I have to admit I could be wrong. After all, we can't have any non-LDS person saying there could be real religious intolerance in the US. It must be just the persecution complex so rampant in Utah County.
And skippy, "less educated and lower socioeconomic class" doesn't equate to "stupid." That originated in your own mind. Is that what you think of poor people? That they are not as educated and are stupid? I would think they aren't as educated BECAUSE they are in the lower socioeconomic level. It does cost money to get schooling after all.
As a group, Evs are the least educated of all religions.
Actually Muslims are. And it is quite easy to determine that. Hundreds of millions of them are illiterate.
“All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it...Propositions arrived at by purely logical means are completely empty as regards reality." - Albert Einstein
charity wrote:Scratch, if you got from the MA&D thread on "virulent" anti-Mormomism that it was because Romney quit, you weren't reading. It was from an article which appeared in the Wall Street Journal. I don't think that newspaper originates in Utah, but I guess in all humility I have to admit I could be wrong. After all, we can't have any non-LDS person saying there could be real religious intolerance in the US. It must be just the persecution complex so rampant in Utah County.
Huh? What are you talking about? It is transparently obvious that the latest fervor over "anti-Mormon bigotry" is a direct result of TBMs feeling slighted at Romney's withdrawal from the campaign.
charity wrote:And skippy, "less educated and lower socioeconomic class" doesn't equate to "stupid." That originated in your own mind. Is that what you think of poor people? That they are not as educated and are stupid? I would think they aren't as educated BECAUSE they are in the lower socioeconomic level. It does cost money to get schooling after all.
As I read it, it was clearly a reference to intelligence, particularly in context of her other posts.
I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe / But at least I'm enjoying the ride.
-Grateful Dead (lyrics by John Perry Barlow)
charity wrote:And skippy, "less educated and lower socioeconomic class" doesn't equate to "stupid." That originated in your own mind. Is that what you think of poor people? That they are not as educated and are stupid? I would think they aren't as educated BECAUSE they are in the lower socioeconomic level. It does cost money to get schooling after all.
As I read it, it was clearly a reference to intelligence, particularly in context of her other posts.
I know Juliann. She is not the bigot you portray her to be. She said "less educated and lower socioeconomic class." You said "stupid."
charity wrote:And skippy, "less educated and lower socioeconomic class" doesn't equate to "stupid." That originated in your own mind. Is that what you think of poor people? That they are not as educated and are stupid? I would think they aren't as educated BECAUSE they are in the lower socioeconomic level. It does cost money to get schooling after all.
As I read it, it was clearly a reference to intelligence, particularly in context of her other posts.
I know Juliann. She is not the bigot you portray her to be. She said "less educated and lower socioeconomic class." You said "stupid."
juliann routinely rejects arguments on the basis of credentialism. Case in point: her claim that Brent Metcalfe, one of the most important Book of Abraham scholars in the world, isn't a credentialed handwriting analyst (or whatever her term was), so therefore his arguments don't matter, aren't valid, etc. For juliann (and many other Mopologists), credentials are critical, and can, in effect, be said to function as an emblem of a person's intelligence. (At least according to them.)