Anti-Mornonism in the email from Catholic Answers!

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This e-mail made me sick.

I’m very disappointed in Catholic answers for it, and think they need to re-think things if they really want converts. At the moment, all they’re doing is peddling anti-mormon prejudice for cash. The only thing it will accomplish is the die-hard conservative Catholics eating up without any consideration to the other side(s) of the story.

Tisk, tisk. I thought better of you, Karl.
 
BartBurk said:
Why would anyone be shocked that Indian children sent to school in Utah would have lighter skins than their brothers and sisters on the reservation. My guess is that kids in Utah wouldn’t be outside in the sun as much as their brothers and sisters on the reservation.
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Exactly, but SWK was using it as a fulfullment of BoM prophecy.

Not getting as much of a tan as your siblings, due to being indoors, is not quite the same as “turning white and delightsome”.
🙂

But hey, anything to bolster testimony of the BoM, right?

Paul
 
Whyme, it sounds like to me that you’re trying to serve 2 masters. You can’t be catholic AND mormon, you can’t defend both faiths. Primarily because mormons believe all other christians are dead wrong and apostates. And because if you’re catholic, you’re supposed to believe in the one true faith. You need to do some deep soul searching and figure out what you want exactly. You cannot straddle that fence.

As far as the email goes, seems fake to me.
 
why_me said:
This is email is being spread by catholics. I have to feel sorry for these catholics who have lost their way from Chirst:

Won’t you please make a special sacrifice and send your gift of $35 … $75 … or perhaps $150 or more today for this important project and all the good works of Catholic Answers.
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I hope that it is a sick joke! 😊

**It definitely sounds like Karl Keating. **
 
Exalt said:
This e-mail made me sick.
I’m very disappointed in Catholic answers for it, and think they need to re-think things if they really want converts. At the moment, all they’re doing is peddling anti-mormon prejudice for cash. The only thing it will accomplish is the die-hard conservative Catholics eating up without any consideration to the other side(s) of the story.

Tisk, tisk. I thought better of you, Karl.
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So, Exalt, you’re on record for attributing this to Karl Keating.

And, for not knowing the difference between Christianity and mormon pantheology.

Tsk tsk.

Robert
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I think it is very suspicious this went out at the same time as Mitt Romney’s candidacy for Presidency. As a Romney supporter, I find it to be dirty tricks. I’m a new Catholic of two years, but don’t like this particular e-mail.
 
jmcrae said:
I didn’t - and I get all the spam from this site, so it’s not because I’m not on the list.

I still think it’s a hoax of some kind - it doesn’t have the same “tone” as the rest of what they send out.
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I got the e-mail on Tuesday (“Super Tuesday”), and another version of it on Friday.

If it’s a spoof e-mail, I have to ask how the “spoofer” got ahold of my e-mail address, since I never made that public.

I believe it’s legit, and timed to give people food for thought on their way to the polls. Unfortunately, we don’t have any politically conservative candidate on the ballot who is also Christian/Catholic and who has more than a snowball’s chance in h–l of getting elected.

Considering what has happened in politics since “Super Tuesday” I’d say this e-mail has helped achieve one objective - the “New Mormon Threat” just fell off the radar screen.

Now the only threats we have to face are terrorism, a government takeover of health care, loss of all hope of gaining Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade, further crippling of the US economy to combat global warming when the primary polluters are overseas, and taxes taxes taxes.

Kinda puts things in perspective.
 
BartBurk said:
I think it is very suspicious this went out at the same time as _____________'s candidacy for Presidency. As a _______________ supporter, I find it to be dirty tricks. I’m a new Catholic of two years, but don’t like this particular e-mail.
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You probably didn’t realize it, Bart, but forum rules prohibit us from directly discussing political candidates.
CAF is banning all discussions of political candidates. This ban includes posts that name a candidate, allude to a particular candidate, use euphemisms for a candidate, or refer to surrogates for a particular candidate.
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This note is just a gentle nudge. We welcome and value your (name removed by moderator)uts. This is a hot thread and we don’t want to see it shut down by the moderators.
 
BartBurk said:
I think it is very suspicious this went out at the same time as Mitt Romney’s candidacy for Presidency. As a Romney supporter, I find it to be dirty tricks. I’m a new Catholic of two years, but don’t like this particular e-mail.
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You can read a new thread that was just started by Nan_S. It is very interesting how she interpreted the email:

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=217725

Now that Nan_S has given me food for thought, I can see your point too. I didn’t put the two together…an email to influence decisions during election time. 😊
 
Bart, you can edit your post to take out the name of the candidate. I also would like to see this thread continue. 🙂
 
ibkc said:
This article in yesterday’s WSJ is interesting:

online.wsj.com/article/SB120243323721852411.html

The thing is, the article is very sympathetic towards Mormons, but it doesn’t address the central issue: that the things the critics are saying are TRUE. Not fictional propaganda.
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I wouldn’t call it truth. I would call it patch work quotations to paint mormonism in a bad light. And in reality, sow dislike toward mormonism and create bigotry among Christians.

But the Wall Street Journal article told it like it is.

Now what do you think of this?:

By the end of 2007, some Mormons were wondering if the cross that famously appeared in the window of Huckabee’s Christmas ad was directed specifically against their faith, which focuses more on Jesus’ rising than his death. Various churches in South Carolina devoted Christmas-season sermons to anti-Mormon lectures. Evangelicals helped get out the vote for Huckabee in Michigan. “If we turned out every evangelical Christian on election day, Gov. Huckabee would get six times as many votes as Romney!” Huckabee supporter Gary Glenn wrote in an e-mail on January 6. Glenn listed the churches the campaign needed to mobilize: “Assembly of God, Baptist, Church of God, Nazarenes, Lutheran, non-denominational, Pentecostal, Presbyterian, Reformed, Word of Faith.” And which to avoid: Catholics and Mormons, who were lumped together with “any church you know to be liberal on issues such as abortion and protecting traditional marriage.” 😃

cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/08/opinion/main3807966.shtml

I have said many times on this forum, that mormons and catholics are allies in fighting bigotry among the protestants. But who listens?🤷
 
If you don’t edit the candidates’ names out of your quote, the thread may get pulled, whyme.
 
If there is any lingering confusion that the email came from Catholic Answers you can verify that it did by going to catholic.com, shop, and type mormon in the search area.

I don’t particularly care for the style of the email either. But I want to point out to you again, why me, that you have a fellow LDS who comes here to this board day in and day out for the sole purpose of condemning the Catholic Faith. And it seems he does it for sport, since he has said it is more “fun” than discussing with people of his own faith.

Since you never acknowledge that fact, I guess its alright with you. So all your talk about lets just love one another and be nice falls flat on its face as far as I am concerned. If I see you just once, call this LDS fellow out when he makes an ugly statement about our faith, then perhaps you might gain some credibility in this quest for peace you keep talking about.
 
truthsilence said:
But I want to point out to you again, why me, that you have a fellow LDS who comes here to this board day in and day out for the sole purpose of condemning the Catholic Faith. And it seems he does it for sport, since he has said it is more “fun” than discussing with people of his own faith.

Since you never acknowledge that fact, I guess its alright with you. So all your talk about lets just love one another and be nice falls flat on its face as far as I am concerned. If I see you just once, call this LDS fellow out when he makes an ugly statement about our faith, then perhaps you might gain some credibility in this quest for peace you keep talking about.
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The only time I see him post is in defense of the lds faith from something hostile that a catholic poster wrote. Since I very rarely go to other sections of the forum to read his posts I cannot comment on it.

However, if I felt that he was doing it to have a good time and for sport, I would at least tell him not to have fun or sport of other people’s beliefs. And that it was wrong to do so.
 
ibkc said:
If you don’t edit the candidates’ names out of your quote, the thread may get pulled, whyme.
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I forgot to edit it. However, as long as people don’t start debating the candidates I think that the thread will continue. This thread has nothing to do with candidates but rather, to the antimormonism that I felt was in the email.
 
Yet you do not defend Catholicism or even Christianity at all over at madb.

You seem to have this need for Catholics to accept mormonism, yet you are fine with all the anti-Catholic and ant-Christian nonsense that goes on over at madb.

You claim all of the time that you look for a balanced approach to the two religions. For the commonalities. Yet, you are quick to judge and condemn Catholics yet day after day madb posters claim the Catholic church is anything but led by Christ. And you are silent. madb posters call the Holy Trinity a heresy, and you are silent. They twist Scripture around to “prove” their polytheism. They defend immoral behaviors such as polygamy. You say nothing.

You defend the very unorthodox and un-Biblical beliefs of mormonism, here at CAF. You tell how how nice mormons are. Yes, some mormons have nice, but what they are teaching people is not “nice”. And you find that resistance to this sort of “niceness” as personally offensive.

You are as I have already stated, passive-aggressive, towards Catholicism and Catholics.
 
RebeccaJ said:
Yet you do not defend Catholicism or even Christianity at all over at madb.
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I see no reason to defend catholicism since it is not attacked. And if it was, I would defend it. And why would mormons ‘defend’ christianity since they are also christian?

Plus, I have told of my catholicism and no one has attacked me on that forum. How to explain it? 🤷

Maybe the folks are different on that forum.
 
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