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To: colorcountry
Isn’t it funny that most of your “anti-mormon” threads you listed are posted from LDS sites.

I appreciate that our anti-Mormon FReepers are now posting mostly current LDS articles to "discuss". It's definitely an improvement!

514 posted on 03/29/2009 7:05:18 PM PDT by TheDon
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To: TheDon
I appreciate that our anti-Mormon FReepers are now posting mostly current LDS articles to "discuss". It's definitely an improvement!

Well, the current stuff has at least been my angle. T.Don, we've had a few good in-depth discussions. So I trust your response to my query here:

Do you really think it's helpful to Christian-LDS dialog to pin a stereotypical "anti" label on someone? What if Christian FREEPERS went around calling LDS FREEPERS "protags" all the time? ("protags" for protagonists).

I mean, after all, before anybody even knew about the word "Mormon" -- Christians were labeled by Mormons as having 100% "corrupt" professing believers, 100% "abominable" creeds, that we were all wrong.

The late 19th-century Mormons then decided this assessment was revelatory, canonized, "Scriptural" stuff.

And ever since then, Mormon authors & missionaries & teachers have gone out of their way to label us all apostates.

Now that sounds rather protagonistic to me. Yet if I just went around calling LDS FREEPERS "protags" all the time -- it'd be not only impersonal but would get old real fast.

LDS have struck the first spiritual blow on Christians and have only raised the pot to world-wide status.

In light of this, why do you insist on using the "anti" term when you know that some Christians...
...are only responding to your beliefs -- and not (necessarily) you personally?
...--and-- that some have been provoked by being cast world-wide as "apostates?"

613 posted on 03/29/2009 8:08:03 PM PDT by Colofornian
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