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Jason, I'm not sure why you are so obnoxious. Asking a question to someone you admire and respect, hoping for help and understanding is not the same thing as wanting to debate.

I am sorry

I was obnoxious. I did feel the comments were not in spirit of the thread. But I was to strident in my remarks.

Ray A wrote: Purge the Church of all those willing to dialogue and reason.

Let us not.

moksha wrote:Kýrie, eléison; Christé, eléison; Kýrie, eléison.

The first thing I thought of when I read this was Mr. Mister.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNKbHJ3PTu4

antibrain8:

Oh my god. The Gookie Cookie Monster is talking a like a Book of Mormon character. This is just too good...

Hey hey... Do me too! I want the condemnayshunz.

Be thou cursed!

I hope that will suffice. I mean, how can you further be debased when you’re lying on the ground?
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The Nehor:

The mentally challenged are exempt from that prophecy.

It’s not so much that, as that he’s long since arrived at the point of ultimate malediction. Aside from the eventual and inevitable reduction of his outer shell into its constituent elements, what further degradation could he possibly undergo? He’s already there.
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Jason Bourne:

………………… blah, blah, blah ………………….

Is it really possible that anyone can be quite as obtuse as is this guy?
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RayA:

[Semi-inebriated, loosely-connected session of literary free-association, punctuated by a few random moments of apparently genuine indignation against Joseph Smith.]

Hope you were able to sleep it off, Ray.

As far as my warning to you is concerned, and your seeming inability to receive it, I can only react by saying, “Don’t blame the messenger.”

I am disheartened that you don’t seem to have responded very well to its message. Maybe it was the language I chose to convey it in. Oh, well … I thought it would be the best way to make it clear to you. Apparently not.

In any event, I feel I must confirm the warning and its accompanying predictions of want and woe, should you continue on the path you have chosen. So don’t ever say no one warned you. I have.
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Dr. Shades:

Dear William:

I have a soft spot in my heart for those who are passionate about their beliefs, even if I don't necessarily agree with them.

You knew that posting what you did to Ray A would open yourself up to ridicule, but you were nevertheless passionate enough about the rightness of what you posted that you did so anyway.

In spite of the fact that I might bring condemnation upon my own head for saying this, KUDOS to you for your bravery.

Yes, dear Dr., I am passionate about my beliefs. And one of my most passionate beliefs is that the first thing an apostate Mormon loses on his way out the chapel door is his irony sensor. Who would have thought it was something that depended on religious faith? I know I wouldn’t have. Nevertheless, I’ve long since established the incontrovertible connection between the two things: once they’ve vacated the chapel, there ain’t a lick of irony ever registers in their minds again.

And, with that in mind, I clicked the “Submit” button on my post yesterday. I thought it might have raised a bigger stir than it did, but I guess this place just ain’t as popular as it once was. Still, I did get a few of the anticipated reactions. And for that, I am grateful.

In the inspired words of the brilliant Tom Stoppard:

Audiences know what to expect. That is all they are prepared to believe in.

harmony wrote:

Ray A wrote: Purge the Church of all those willing to dialogue and reason.

Let us not.

Let's instead start with the fifth-columnists who think they are pillars of dialogue and reason, but who are really just shameless cowards afraid to avow publicly what they secretly believe.

I hope everyone had a happy Easter.

I have waited until after Easter to respond.

Will, the brainless scarecrow, has really out done himself again. True to form. Ballard and Monson would be proud.

Will, there is a cure for hemorrhoids, in your case I call it the "ignore" function.

I had a nice Easter and hope everyone else did, too.

The Easter Bunny did a teeny-tiny bit of innocent bar "hopping" on Easter Eve with a couple of friends, but still managed to do her duty the next morning. My girls love their goodies. Thank you, Easter Bunny!

<-------------------- Headache in an Easter Dress.

Ate a Cadbury Egg for breakfast,

KA

Chap wrote:

Daniel Peterson wrote:I won't be posting tomorrow.

Anyway, it's already Easter Sunday in Greece.

No it wasn't. Different ecclesiastical calendar.

I'm aware of the different ecclesiastical calendar. This matter goes far back into antiquity.

For the small Mormon congregations in Greece (and the eastern Mediterranean and beyond), however, it was already Easter.

Chap wrote:Incidentally, does celebrating Easter at the "right" date matter to the CoJCoLDS?

Not really.

William Schryver wrote: As far as my warning to you is concerned, and your seeming inability to receive it, I can only react by saying, “Don’t blame the messenger.”

Sort of like, "don't blame the arsonist, he didn't plan on the fire killing 129 people".

William Schryver wrote: I am disheartened that you don’t seem to have responded very well to its message. Maybe it was the language I chose to convey it in. Oh, well … I thought it would be the best way to make it clear to you. Apparently not.

You are so religiously deranged that I must not only now warn, but advise my children to seek official name withdrawal from your twisted Church. My worst nightmare would be thinking a religiously morbid mind like yours might ever have a chance of infecting them. I shudder to think how characters like you might divide normal people. Formerly, I advised them to treat the Church with respect, but my brief re-soujourn on MAD, along with you, has convinced me that Dawkins was right - Mormonism is a virus.

William Schryver wrote: In any event, I feel I must confirm the warning and its accompanying predictions of want and woe, should you continue on the path you have chosen. So don’t ever say no one warned you. I have.

You so remind me of Mullah "fulla bulla" Nasrudin.

I have to admit that I'm astonished at how my little "Easter Greeting" thread, very positive and inoffensive, has been twisted into what it has become.

I've even tried to bring it back to the positive, but plainly to no avail.

Incidentally, Mullah Nasruddin -- Mullah Nasruddin Hoja, in Turkey; in Egypt, simply Goha -- is funny. My wife and I even have a little illustration of one of his stories, a piece that we commissioned from a friend, hanging in our kitchen.