why me wrote:Enjoy brooklyn. But the crazies are creeping back in. Wear a helmet.
Forget Brooklyn. We should be wearing helmets prophylactically at our own keyboard.
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden ~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
Polygamy-Porter wrote:If I believed in something that is demonstrably false while displaying arrogant ignorance, then PLEASE mock me.
Thank you.
Most likely you are mocked often. Your one liner is too vague. We all have truths that others may consider an untruth.
What did you think of henny youngman? Did you watch the youtube video I linked for you? Those were the good ol' days. No cussing, just the fun of the act.
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I intend to lay a foundation that will revolutionize the whole world. Joseph Smith We are “to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to provide for the widow, to dry up the tear of the orphan, to comfort the afflicted, whether in this church, or in any other, or in no church at all…” Joseph Smith
why me wrote:Enjoy brooklyn. But the crazies are creeping back in. Wear a helmet.
Forget Brooklyn. We should be wearing helmets prophylactically at our own keyboard.
Something to think about. Certainly, the poor immigrant working at the gas station who was shot in cold blood as he was fiddling with receipts in a booth may agree if he were not dead. Likewise for the poor sucker in the Bodega who found himself among thieves inside his store, ran out of the store, and he was shot by a cop. Maybe the backyard is the safest place to be...or is it? And the keyboard....okay it is pretty safe, I suppose.
The mocking of other faiths only adds to the disrespect we see for people out there.
I intend to lay a foundation that will revolutionize the whole world. Joseph Smith We are “to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to provide for the widow, to dry up the tear of the orphan, to comfort the afflicted, whether in this church, or in any other, or in no church at all…” Joseph Smith
why me wrote:I am sorry beastie. I thought that you were pointing fingers at them. Not me. Perhaps I misread your post. Yes, I have been through the temple but this was in the 80's.
All religions believe that the others are wrong. No problem with that. But religions should not be mocked because of their quirks. That is all apart of religion. The jews rock back and forth while wearing special cloths, the penecostals roll around in the aisle and jump up and down shouting praise Jesus, the catholics kneel up the stairs to reach the black madonna in vilnius. etc.
My motto: no reason to mock.
Did you object to the mocking contained in the temple ceremony?
Aren't you going to answer my question?
We hate to seem like we don’t trust every nut with a story, but there’s evidence we can point to, and dance while shouting taunting phrases.
I have to admit, this is why MD&D is not appealing to me at all. Nearly every thread on Christian belief gets reduced to a mocking of the God who Christians worship. On the one hand, it is a good tool to drive Christians away from Mormonism. On the other, it isn't hard to see that Mormonism has a anti-Christian, and especially an anti-Catholic, doctrinal vein.
I'm not saying Catholics are any better...there's plenty of anti-semitism that is sourced to Catholic leaders.
Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction -Pope Benedict XVI
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei