For what it’s worth, I have attended a United Methodist Church for the last 18 years or so, where I teach Sunday School (my adult class), serve on the stewardship committee and help lead our early Sunday morning service. (But I guess that could be part of my secret Mormon disguise.)
I’ll try to defend any person’s right to his own faith. And I have no problem with people describing anyone else’s religion, and drawing attention to any facts about it. I just have problems with calling people’s faith “wrong” as a factual matter when it is a matter of faith.
I leave open the question as to whether an adherent to any religion ACTUALLY believes what he says, but that, too, is not for me to question.
Even though I disagree with the tone of some of what has been said on this thread, I absolutely support the posters’ right to say it.
At the PERSONAL level, you are right.
However; at the CORPORATE lervel, one can DEFINITELY determine what the Organization has written is according to what the Bible states.
and, for the record, do you also teach them to silence people who have escaped from cults, to ascribe bigotry to refugees relating their traumatic experiences, and shut down discussions of the doctrines and historical evidence of the damage done by this so-called "church"?
do you also silence ex-Moonies? ex-Scientoligists? ex-Muslims?
frankly, as aperson raised in this cult, ordained to the priesthood, president of their teacher's quorum and preparing for my mission when i left, the gall of a sunday School teacher posing as the defender of the rights of a cult so destructive, is nauseating, but not a bit surprising...
i don't give a damn what jersey you wear, sir, you are on the opposite line of scrimmage from the victims of this cult that know it just a bit more intimately than you...and we will not be silenced.