ldsfaqs wrote:Maybe instead of focusing on "mocking" an LDS person, you should instead focus on correcting your ignorance an bigotry. I don't say it for no reason. I say it because that's how evil you all have become, no different than the KKK, Fanatical Islam, etc.
I'm not mocking you because you're LDS. I'm mocking you because, quite literally, nearly every post that you make on our forums contains an example of one of the things that I put in my graphic. You seem completely incapable of responding to someone without (a) calling them anti-Mormon; (b) calling them moron/idiot; (c) calling them liar; (d) referencing the time you spent out of the LDS church as if it makes you a super-authority on anything and everything. I've previously tried in a much nicer fashion (
here and
here) to get you to tone it down, but you just don't stop. So mockery is pretty fair game at this point.
Case in point, Katerine Skaggs. The woman is a self-identified believing Mormon writing for a very pro-LDS online magazine, and you
still can't resist calling her a liar and implying that she might be a covert anti-Mormon.
In regards to the article linked to in the OP, I feel sorry for Ms. Skaggs. I think that she's off when she claims that "liberal Mormons" are using the "chapel Mormon/Internet Mormon" dichotomy in significant numbers or the term "TBM." Those terms are largely the domain of ex-Mormons and critics of the LDS church, not Mormon intellectuals (be they apologists or the more liberal Bloggernacle types). She is not off, however, in thinking that Mormon intellectuals of numerous stripes look down on their more conventional brothers and sisters, and that goes for "apologists" and "liberals" alike (I've long felt that apologetics is just a different kind of "liberal" Mormonism). It sounds to me like she Google'd her way into a gaggle of material from ex-Mormons, Mormon apologists, and liberal Mormons, became genuinely hurt at how all three groups tend to dump on Mormons like herself, and conflated what the ex-Mormons were saying with what everyone else was saying. I see absolutely no evidence that she is a liar.
Her argument isn't exactly well-made. Calling for Mormons to stop calling one another names and looking down on each other when it's clear that she looks down on "liberal Mormons" and called them her own share of names is not all that persuasive. Still, what I read is the essay of a believing Mormon woman who is hurt and confused, not a nefarious anti-Mormon-in-disguise liar.
Now she has people critical her church chortling with glee that she supported Shades' Chapel/Internet Mormon dichotomy (
contra the apologists), and she has a supposedly fellow believing Mormon like yourself---someone who is supposed to be her brother in Christ, someone who should be looking on her pain and her anger with a little compassion and charity---dumping on her and calling her a liar and an anti-Mormon. You are a good example of
exactly why that woman is conflating apologists with ex-Mormons. Because they're all picking on Mormons like her.
So,
ldsfaqs, get used to me mocking you, because this time, I think you've firmly earned it.