At least, that's the list was allowed to stand on MAD:
mbeelsey:
...Sorry buddy, but you come onto a board like this and try to paint exmos as something other than what they are -- covenant breakers, backsliders, and hypocrits --...
Just thought you'd like to know exactly what you are, in case you thought you were something else entirely different.
harmony wrote:At least, that's the list was allowed to stand on MAD:
mbeelsey:
...Sorry buddy, but you come onto a board like this and try to paint exmos as something other than what they are -- covenant breakers, backsliders, and hypocrits --...
Just thought you'd like to know exactly what you are, in case you thought you were something else entirely different.
edited to fix quote.
Heh. Perish the thought that our conscience was betrayed by staying in that church.
And crawling on the planet's face Some insects called the human race Lost in time And lost in space...and meaning
harmony wrote:At least, that's the list was allowed to stand on MAD:
mbeelsey:
...Sorry buddy, but you come onto a board like this and try to paint exmos as something other than what they are -- covenant breakers, backsliders, and hypocrits --...
Just thought you'd like to know exactly what you are, in case you thought you were something else entirely different.
edited to fix quote.
It's all, I suppose, a matter of perspective. I imagine this is what many of those from other belief systems say of their family members, friends, and associates who abandon their traditional faith to join the Mormon Church.
I've told my story to a number of my professional colleagues. Almost without exception, their response is to state how much they admire my courage and integrity.
God . . . "who mouths morals to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, . . . and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship him ..."
Blixa wrote:Again the utter lack of imagination and charity.
Oh, it's mbeesley. That's not a surprise. mbeesley is kind of like a less-logic-driven version of Hammer.
If you'll excuse me, that's an oxymoron.
Mormonism ceased being a compelling topic for me when I finally came to terms with its transformation from a personality cult into a combination of a real estate company, a SuperPac, and Westboro Baptist Church. - Kishkumen