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_moksha
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Anti anything you want to be...

Post by _moksha »

I was following the reasoning of MormonMason at MAD:

A quote I read: "Friends don't let friends vote Democrat."

Doesn't really have much to do with the thread except by way of analogy, perhaps, but being Democrat by definition makes one anti-Republican. People choose to be one thing or another in a political sense because they are against (the very definition of the Greek preposition that has become the English prefix "anti-") the other parties and their views. One can go too far.

On the other hand, if a person is against Mormonism, there is no other term but anti-Mormon, as in meaning "anti things Mormon." One cannot redefine words without really good reason and ability to do so....

English just does not seem to allow anything to work except the term anti-Mormon no matter how much we might want to redefine the word. The best we can do is to coin a new word and try to make it stick. But, if the shoe fits and the English definition applies....


So in an effort to make that Anti-Mormon shoe fit, we have been given a wide definition. If you are something, you are anti something else.

Thus we Mormons could therefore be easily tagged as Anti-Christians or Anti-Semites. What else? We practice a Theocratic Genontocracy, so I suppose we could pick up an Anti-Democratic moniker. The list has many possibilities, unless one acknowledged in the first place that such labeling perhaps needs to be abandoned or completely refined.
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Behold, I say unto you, that the good shepherd doth call you; yea, and in his own name he doth call you, which is the name of Christ; and if ye will not hearken unto the voice of the good shepherd, to the name by which ye are called, behold, ye are not the sheep of the good shepherd.

And now if ye are not the sheep of the good shepherd, of what fold are ye? Behold, I say unto you, that the devil is your shepherd, and ye are of his fold; and now, who can deny this? Behold, I say unto you, whosoever denieth this is a liar and a child of the devil.

Alma 5:38-39
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bcspace wrote:Alma 5:38-39
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So....
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Alma 5:38-39

So....


Yes....?
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Post by _Paul Kemp »

The Dude wrote:
bcspace wrote:Alma 5:38-39


So....


So... the book Joseph Smith wrote says you are a liar and evil. Doesn't that BOTHER you?
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