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We also support the ideas embodied in FR rules against religion bashing. There is no need for hostility and there should be no room for bigotry on FR. Every religion has it's miracles and mysteries. Every faith has things in it that are not or can not be proven, and things that run contrary to what secular science would have us believe. Someone mature and confident in their own faith generally doesn't feel the need to belittle the faith of others.

Are you going to be consistent then & "hose down" any & all FR challenges to Islam?
Are all of those challenges to Islam as you put it, "religion bashing?"
Is "any" "negative" comment about Islam "bigotry?"
Are you or will you be encouraging Muslim thread-posters to have had it & post millions of pro-Muslim threads? (And do you expect few challenges to such content?)

Do you expect that when your faith labels as "Scripture" verses from the Pearl of Great Price that describes our faith as 100% credally "abominable" to your god as something to be acclaimed?
Are we remiss for not giving a standing ovation to Joseph Smith?
Or when the same verses describe the "professors" of all Christian sects as 100% "corrupt" are we to conclude, "Boy, keep those 'Scriptures' coming. We just LOVE the way they slam us!"

Their most recent project is trying to blur the fact that the polygamous FLDS is a separate and distinct religion from ours, just as Lutherans are a separate and distinct religion from Catholicism.

I am a Protestant. And no, Catholicism is NOT a different "religion." They are branches of the same faith, Christianity. Even LDS official writings (contemporary) will tell you that LDS do NOT consider themselves a branch of Protestantism.

Why is it "OK" for you & other Mormons to impose your definition of "religion" upon me & others, but you scream bloody murder when we establish distinct boundaries between Mormonism & Christianity?
Why is it you are able to have the gall to tell us that our faith expressions, though distinct, are totally different religions when in fact most of the Christians I know see Catholicism & Protestantism as one in the same basic faith with key distinctions?

Why is it on these threads that so many Mormons have insisted to our face that they want to label all Christian sects simultaneously as both "apostates" of the faith but at the same time say to us, "You know, we're 'Christians,' too." (Well, which is it?
Are we 'apostates' or 'Christians?').
If you're 'Christians,' too and we're 'apostates' to you, then what are you?

Why is it that we are demonized when we try to draw faith boundaries between 'Christians' and 'Mormons,' and when Mormons insist they are "one" in Christ that's OK?
But if a Christian sees fLDS as a distinct denominational affiliation of the overall 'Mormon' faith, that Christian is anathematized? (What? We're now to blame for the reality that fundamentalist Mormons are Mormon?)

Why is it that LDS posters like Edward Watson can say on these posts that "Of course, LDS is Christian" and that it's a branch of Mormonism, and I don't see any other LDS contending with him on that...but dare a Christian say the latter portion of that, and look out!!!

WHERE'S THE CONSISTENCY???