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To: eastforker

I haven’t seen religious “bigotry”. I’ve seen people post threads with “facts” about Mormonism, if to that, is what you refer.

Myself, I don’t really care too much anymore for the religious “debates” here; I’m not Mormon, I’m Catholic. I could, if I wished, make a case for “bigotry” against my faith too, based on the same phenomena that seems to be occurring against Mormonism. (that there are “facts” posted that pro port to demonstrate Catholicism is false).

The “problem” with fighting against such posts, for both the anti-Catholic and anti-Mormon posts, is a) They are usually posted by the same people and thus rehashing the same points over and over again and b) It truly doesn’t do anything to fight the same people over and over again on a personal level.

That is, I’m never going to convince the same people who are anti-Catholic that they are wrong about their assertions. Thus, I’ve dropped such attempts (for the most part) for the simple reason of not wishing to focus on religion and taking away any hope of political unity. Besides, as I pointed out, it’s really the same people fueling the ongoing criticism of Catholicism here, so on a personal (if not religious level) there are certainly better ways to demonstrate their error than trading posts on a message board.

The same applies to the anti-Mormons. I don’t know why my Mormon FRiends (who seem to have given up and left, or been banned) didn’t get that. A Mormon here can either continue bashing their head against the wall, claiming “bigotry”, accomplishing nothing in the process, or now (given the truce) move forward and post positive things about Romney if they wish. The anti-Mormonism here isn’t going to change (same with the anti-Catholicism). I’ve realized that; I encourage any Mormon who feels “persecuted” to realize the same and move forward.


36 posted on 05/06/2012 9:24:21 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: FourtySeven

That is a very good point. My suggestion would be a policy of no bashing of any religion or lack there of. Attacking some ones faith is the same as a personal attack IMHO.


38 posted on 05/06/2012 9:30:27 AM PDT by eastforker (Don't be ornery for Romney, instead Root for Newt!)
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To: FourtySeven
“Frankly, Mitt Romney agrees with him. He called moral conservatives “forces of intolerance” this past week, and used the opportunity to equate “sexual orientation” with race or ethnicity.” I guess when bishop Romney becomes a god, and creates his own planet and human beings to inhabit it, it will be full of bath houses and steam rooms and little boys will only be allowed to wear chaps until the age of 13. I never knew magic underwear came in code pink.

There you go, religious bigotry right there posted on FR by AnTiw1 today in another thread. And that is by no means the first time I have seen such on this website.

39 posted on 05/06/2012 9:32:01 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: FourtySeven

A wholly sensible position. Kennedy had to deal with the same anti-Catholic bigotry.


54 posted on 05/06/2012 9:55:32 AM PDT by citizen (Obama blames:arab spring,banks,big oil,bush,ceos,christians,coal,FNC,Jpn tsumani,T Party,wall st,you)
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To: FourtySeven

You are brilliant.


956 posted on 05/07/2012 11:04:09 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Romney scares me. Obama is the freaking nightmare that is so bad you are afraid to go back to sleep)
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To: FourtySeven
Either Jesus is the Savior, or He isn't. Either the Bible has given us an account of His Empty Tomb or it doesn't. If not then just make up your own version and that is OK with you? If so how would you feel about making up a new Constitution?

People can worship dog dung as far as I am concerned, but I sure don't want them in the White House.

970 posted on 05/07/2012 11:53:34 AM PDT by itsahoot (I will not vote for Romney period. You can't trust the man with the big red (R))
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To: FourtySeven

His religion is the least of Mitt’s problems. I’d vote for a Sikh, a Mormon, a Zoroastrian who shared our values and acted in accord. That ain’t Romney.
Who can be loyal to that? Who could be enthusiastic about that?


1,035 posted on 05/07/2012 2:13:12 PM PDT by steve8714 (The answer, surprisingly, is Carnahan.)
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