stemelbow wrote:
I've seen Wade over the years, not in person. Well once in person but he didn't know who I was since I post anonymously. I don't agree with many things he says. I really don't care about that though. I simply take issue with the atmosphere here. This thread surely outlines an issue I have with this place. I have no interest in engaging with you one whether you think your mirroring approach regarding Wade is a good thing.
The only thing that could be, in a stretch, called "mirroring" with Wade was when I asked him if he would object if I lumped the LDS church in with Naziism, etc. Other than that, I have just been sharing some of his past history.
As far as "mirroring" lumping in the LDS church with offensive groups, EA beat me in that game long ago:
I had said:
Look at it this way. If some anti-mormon Christian individual set up a website, and pretended there was a "center" behind the website, and called the "center" The Center Investigating Nonsensical New Religions - or CINNRS - and on the website's introductory website, the "center" proclaimed interest in investigating the following nonsensical new religions: Mormonism, David Koresh's group, Jim Jone's Group, Heaven's Gate, and Wayne Bent's group - what would your reaction be? And if that same person then visited a board for Mormons, and proclaimed his interest in working with Mormons for this center's study, and invited them to his website, and on the front page they saw Mormonism linked with religions that engaged in homicidal, suicidal, or sexually predatory behavior, what would those Mormons think? And if that same person put on a polite face on the LDS board, and then chastised the Mormons for reacting harshly and negatively to him, what would Mormons think? And how about if that same person spent many years talking about Mormonism on various boards, and consistently attached the worst traits to Mormonism and explained that he wasn't "obsessed" with Mormonism (despite no evidence he investigated any other new religion), and that he was simply concerned with the over-all trajectory of our society, what would you think?
And EA topped me with:
The center should also purport to study cultivated, uncritical laudatory temperament syndrome, or CULTS for short.
http://www.mormondiscussions.com/phpBB3 ... a&start=21Seeing how old some of these threads are that were talking about this exact same topic makes me realize how futile it is to try and get Wade to understand how offensive his "CSSAD" website truly was.