Is there any compulsion to be a mopologist?

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Re: Is there any compulsion to be a mopologist?

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Daniel Peterson had an article in the D-News encouraging members to go online to defend and share the Gospel:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705370129/The-Internet-aids-missionary-effort.html?pg=2

An interesting quote from the article where DCP is unusually frank about Church growth and the greater need for internet participation:

Today, we have been allotted tools for sharing the gospel of which Alma could never have dreamed.

But we may have become complacent. Don't we send out full-time missionaries? Isn't that enough? Aren't we "the fastest growing religion"?

Actually, we're not. Church growth has been falling for many years, and our current rate of missionary success is the lowest it's been for decades. The harvest is great, but the laborers are still too few.

This need not be.

"Shall we not go on in so great a cause?" exclaimed the Prophet Joseph Smith (Doctrine and Covenants 128:22).
"I'm on paid sabbatical from BYU in exchange for my promise to use this time to finish two books."

Daniel C. Peterson, 2014
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Re: Is there any compulsion to be a mopologist?

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jon wrote: Mormons like the feeling that they are superior and want to show people that they are right.



Sometimes such teaching is a way of pushing aside your own doubts. If they will believe it then it must be true afterall.
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Re: Is there any compulsion to be a mopologist?

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sock puppet wrote:
J Green wrote:Hey, SP.

I've seen Elder Ballard urge faithful saints to participate more in online discussions:

http://newsroom.LDS.org/additional-resource/transcript-of-elder-m-russell-ballard-s-speech-given-at-brigham-young-university-management-society

http://www.ldsmag.com/component/zine/article/2926

http://www.byui.edu/News/NewsReleases2008/080411April08Graduation.htm

I think if you google this topic with Elder Ballard you will find even more. It seems to have been an important subject for him the last few years.

Cheers.


Thank you, J Green. In light of Ballard's urge, do you participate more in online discussions of Mormonism than you would if Ballard had not made that urge? Are there times when you exercise self-discipline to come online and 'fight the good fight' when maybe you'd rather not?

Do you know anyone that has been specifically singled out and asked by upline church authority to go online to defend Mormonism?

Bump!
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Re: Is there any compulsion to be a mopologist?

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Yahoo Bot wrote:Apologists include fierce believers with intense spiritual reasons for being apologists. Apologists include people like Paul Ozbourne who struggle because they are gay and think they can get out of their gaydom by being an apologist. Apologists include inactive non-attenders, like Droopy. Apologists include non-believers, like Ray Agostini (who flips and flops on the deck like a fish.)


Perhaps the only thing you and I can agree on is that posting here is not in the best interest of one’s objectivity, or developing a greater sense of balance and fairness. Yet you continue to do post after post after post, and with every one of them disclose how unstable you are, and your insatiable need for revenge, which is not only “un-Mormon”, but “un-Christian”. I’ve very long suspected that you’re one of the hypocrites mentioned in D&C 112:

25 And upon my house shall it begin, and from my house shall it go forth, saith the Lord;
26 First among those among you, saith the Lord, who have professed to know my name and have not known me, and have blasphemed against me in the midst of my house, saith the Lord.


You haven’t followed the counsel of the prophets in regard to Mormons on the Internet:

The Mormon Ethic of Civility.

You troll, you lie, you waver, and all I can see in your posts is vanity. A couple of Hoffer quotes suit you to a tee:

The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.


There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.


Yet, not having learned your lesson, you continue to post here, making not only an ass of yourself, but the religion you “claim” to believe. If you really believed it, you’d live it. I am, and always have been, quite sympathetic to Mormonism (go back and check all my posts on all boards dating back to 2001, if you will, but I doubt your pigmy-like brain could, for ten seconds, sustain any degree of human complexity).

Every man and his dog knows you’re a troll, and I can produce numerous posts from you claiming to be an “apologist”, and then a few posts later denying it. It seems to me like you’re seeking some kind of “validation”, as if you want to be respected for your “diversity of thought”, being “smart”, and being “objective” and having a bigger bookshelf than anyone else. The truth is you just like to get a devious rise out of people, misguidedly hoping for a few “followers” stupid enough to take you seriously. I’m not one of them, Bobby-boy, because you are a total disgrace to the religion you falsely claim to represent, and with every single post you do here, you only increase the antagonism towards Mormonism. When, Bobby-boy, you left this board for a long time, not so long ago, I actually started to have some respect for you, thinking that your trollish mouth finally learned some sense. Believe me, Bobby, the very best thing you could do for your “claimed” religion, would be, in “street vernacular”, is to shut the F*** UP.

Have a good day, Bobby.
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RayAgostini wrote:Every man and his dog knows you’re a troll, and I can produce numerous posts from you claiming to be an “apologist”, and then a few posts later denying it. It seems to me like you’re seeking some kind of “validation”, as if you want to be respected for your “diversity of thought”, being “smart”, and being “objective” and having a bigger bookshelf than anyone else. The truth is you just like to get a devious rise out of people, misguidedly hoping for a few “followers” stupid enough to take you seriously. I’m not one of them, Bobby-boy, because you are a total disgrace to the religion you falsely claim to represent, and with every single post you do here, you only increase the antagonism towards Mormonism. When, Bobby-boy, you left this board for a long time, not so long ago, I actually started to have some respect for you, thinking that your trollish mouth finally learned some sense. Believe me, Bobby, the very best thing you could do for your “claimed” religion, would be, in “street vernacular”, is to shut the F*** UP.

Have a good day, Bobby.


I do wish you well in the personal hell you've built for yourself. Perhaps some day you'll flip back and stay on the deck right side up forever. Peace, brother.
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