It wouldn't bother me (or would but not to the point of making it an issue) if you didn't say slanderous things. Just cause you "think" its true doesn't make it so and being a member I have every right to correct you. Some of your claims about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints are out and out falsehoods - or are twisted to be something they aren't. So Linear is pretty much right in his assessment
Jeannie:
First, the star issue has nothing to do with pride for me, so both you and linear are completely wrong about me. Personally, I could not care less about my star rating. (It's amazing to see how misjudged I am, but again, I am not surprised by this. Being amazing and surprised are two completely different things.)
Second, none of my statements about the mormon church have been slanderous. None.
In fact, they are all true; They are ALL based on information that I uncovered about the "church" when I was considering whether or not I should be a member years ago.
The deeper I dug, the more bizarre and outright silly their claims became. (Yes, bizarre and silly.)
What makes me sad for you Jeannie is that I never slandered your or your church. I told you the truth and I did it in a respectful way.You have, on several occasions, acted disrespectful towards me, but I let it go and didn't bring it back up because I didn't want to embarrass you.
It's sad when I share truth with people and discover that, rather then examine the facts and allow their own beliefs to be challenged, they exude whatever power they have and try to cause harm toward the messenger.
Jeannie, this is called "mob mentality". It's not very civilized and not becoming of any person.
I want you to know that I post evidence against the mormon church, not because I want to hurt people, but because I want them to see through the lies that they've being taught and see them healed of the mis/dis-information that has hindered them from experiencing the freedom that a relationship with Christ through the Holy Spirit brings.
It's sad for me to see people who refuse to allow their beliefs to be tested and instead, attempt to harm the messenger (me, in this case).
In your post you also said that you are allowed to correct me, yet, you have not posted any evidence to refute anything that I have said.
For your benefit and correction I will now post some links to text supporting my position on mormonism. If you find fault with them, please let me know. Be specific as I don't mine having my conclusions tested.
Also know that telling the truth to someone is an act of love, even if the truth is offensive to someone, or even if it hurts their feelings.
This is very important to know when you consider whether you want to believe me to be a good or bad person.Yes, telling the truth to someone is an act of love.Mormonism In A NutShellMormonism teaches that God used to be a man on another world and that he became a god by following the laws and ordinances of his god on his home world. He brought his wife to this world, a woman he had married on the other world. She is, essentially a goddess.
In his present god-state, he rules our world. He has a body of flesh and bones. Since god and his wife are both exalted persons, they each possess physical bodies. In their exalted states as deities, they produce spirit children that grow and mature in the spiritual realm. The first spirit born was Jesus. Afterwards Lucifer was born along with the rest of us. So, Mormonism teaches that we all pre-existed in the spirit realm having been produced from the union of god and his goddess wife. Therefore, we all existed in spirit form before coming down down and entering the bodies of human babies that are being born on earth. During this ‘compression' into the infant state, the memories of their pre-existence is 'veiled.'
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http://www.carm.org/lds/nutshell.htmPeople getting over feeling stupid being duped by mormonismhttp://www.exmormon.org/mormon/mormon457.htmMormonism Research Ministryhttp://www.mrm.org/The Bible vs. The Book of Mormonhttp://www.mrm.org/multimedia/video/bible-vs-book-mormon