RayAgostini wrote: Maybe that's why posters like Pahoran feel that responsibility comes first. To call out apostates and apostate scum for what they are.
That's some mighty charity.
Indulge!
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Coffee, Cedar City and biscuits and gravy - the perfect trifecta of evil. Meet at noon?
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor ~Alexander Pope Let's go shopping! ~Thomas S. Monson
RayAgostini wrote:Maybe that's why posters like Pahoran feel that responsibility comes first. To call out apostates and apostate scum for what they are. Charity will follow the desired repentance.
So yes, responsibility comes first.
Yes, I agree that Pahoran is responsible for the negative impact his behavior has on others.
"Petition wasn’t meant to start a witch hunt as I’ve said 6000 times." ~ Hanna Seariac, LDS apologist
RayAgostini wrote:I could put it another way, too. In reviewing books critical of Mormonism, which should come first? The need for charity? "Bless this book." Or the need for a critical review? Should "charity" come first, here? Shut down the MI, and send them all off to a retreat where they learn "charity first"?
Here's an idea: give the book a critical review, but stick to the book and leave the personality and spirituality of the person who wrote the book (as well as other impertinent and prejudicial details) out of it.
It seems like a reasonable and wise course of action to me.
"Petition wasn’t meant to start a witch hunt as I’ve said 6000 times." ~ Hanna Seariac, LDS apologist
RayAgostini wrote:Maybe that's why posters like Pahoran feel that responsibility comes first. To call out apostates and apostate scum for what they are. Charity will follow the desired repentance.
So yes, responsibility comes first.
Yes, I agree that Pahoran is responsible for the negative impact his behavior has on others.
What exactly is the difference in Ray's mind between 'apostates' and 'apostate scum', I wonder?
(Isn't Ray an apostate - he does not believe in the doctrines of the CoJCoLDS, if I recall rightly? But presumably he leaves no ring round the bath, spiritually speaking at least?)
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
Chap wrote:What exactly is the difference in Ray's mind between 'apostates' and 'apostate scum', I wonder?
(Isn't Ray an apostate - he does not believe in the doctrines of the CoJCoLDS, if I recall rightly? But presumably he leaves no ring round the bath, spiritually speaking at least?)
I think Ray is speaking tongue in cheek here.
"Petition wasn’t meant to start a witch hunt as I’ve said 6000 times." ~ Hanna Seariac, LDS apologist