Posted on 04/04/2008 7:58:26 PM PDT by JRochelle
These women were abused as children. That should have them running for the hills when those men come after their daughters.
Some do leave. With their children.
I know there are many weak women in this world. I just can't respect them.
If notaliberal expects Protestants to defend Mormon practices, especially polygamous ones, he'll have a looong wait.
“I notice that the more vocal protestant Catholic bashers are pretty silent on this thread....Gamecock, Dr. Eckleburg, Quix, Ottofire.........very telling”
Nettiquete requires you to ping someone if you’re going to smear them.
I never see those Catholic/Protestant threads!
I am Protestant, but I think the Catholic religion is beautiful, with a great rich history.
ASSUMPTIONS of that sort are hazardous . . . very hazardous . . . because they appear so overtly to inherently include a huge dose of haughty critical judgment.
1. It's not a raging priority of mine. I consider that whole ball of wax to be quite overtly horrific and not a great deal in need of any spotlight of God's truth on it beyond what is already fostered by the media and folks' common horse sense--particularly if they have any serious familiarity with Scripture and sanity at all.
2. It would appear that an ASSUMPTION is made that Prottys would consider that group to be an average ol Protty sect, club, denomination. NO WAY!
3. God Himself appears to be bringing needful things to light as He did earlier with the RC priests abusing boys. He is not finished cleaning up HIS CHURCH on all sides of all issues and all sides of all dividing lines. More startling things will come to light on most sides of most dividing lines before Christ returns.
4. I don't need to presume to be able to greatly help God in dealing with such horrific situations when He has not communicated such to me and when it is clear He's doing quite fine without my help.
5. So, have RC reps given up their great hostility toward Prottys who ASSUME purportedly untrue things about what RC's believe and practice? If not, the assumptions evidently leveled in my direction would appear to be a wholesale outrageous double standard, pile of hypocrisy.
6. Calling me a RC basher, is, similarly a wholesale outrageous double standard pile of hypocrisy. RC's deplore Prottys asserting what RC's believe and practice when RC's don't believe such assertions are remotely accurate.
7. Yet, here, it is clear that while I am certain I'm not a wholesale RC edifice basher but merely a fierce declarer of truth about some ASPECTS of the RC edifice and ASPECTS of SOME of the key dogmas, teachings, rituals, traditions, practices, beliefs of the RC edifice . . . to me, the allegation that I'm a wholesale RC basher is AS OUTRAGEOUS as RC reps think it is when Prottys assert that SOME RC's are idolators when RC's are convinced that not a single person out of 1 billion RC's is guilty of such.
Double standards have a way of biting one in very sensitive areas . . . when the chickens come home to roost . . . as they invariably do.
Oh no! I wasn’t expecting you to defend them I was waiting for you and your cronies (the catholic bashers) to tear into them like you do to the Catholic Church!!! But so far not a peep!!!
THANKS MUCH.
My reply is at #45.
By the way you do a terrific cut and paste!
You can thank the Lord that you weren’t raised in this harem.
Have mercy.
LOL.
There are only a few freepers who will defend polygamy.
There are some Mormons who will defend the polygamy that Joseph Smith started, but they don’t believe it is right to practice it now.
Not until the Lord says so. Their Lord keeps changing his mind about such things...
Latter Day Saints are not Protestants.
I do thank God for that.
My mother left a religious sect, under great pressure from family and friends not to do so. So I have seen it with my own eyes that it can be done.
Not a whacko sect like this but still a very insulated sect.
Never said they were!
There was not a single cut and paste of a single word of text in post #45.
Methinks the personal Quix assaults are getting very anemic and even more woefully bankrukpt than ever.
ATF was not involved I assume.
I recall you to be a Mitt fan.
LOL. LOL.
You recall wrong.
Not so. EVERY true-believing Mormon believes polygamy IS being practiced right now AND that "it is right to practice it now." The question for true-believing Mormons isn't WHETHER to practice polygamy, but WHERE! True-believing Mormons believe that Joseph Smith, Brigham Young & most or all of the rest of the LDS leaders & LDS grass roots polygamists are in the celestial kingdom practicing polygamy right now.
Polygamy hasn't been done away with among traditional Mormons; it's just been colonized to Kolob Heights. And even a contemporary serial marry-er--a temple-worthy LDS man who's had consecutive wives--as long as he was sealed to each of them in the temple and as long as he "makes it" to the highest Mormon kingdom...then he, too, is headed for future polygamy. (That hardly sounds like a yesteryear practice to me)
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Hail Mary, Full of Grace, The Lord is with thee.Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of death. Amen.
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