Why assume I’m defending the mormons just because I question some of the tactics here.
I’m a life long Catholic who drifted and is working to build my faith.
While I have disagreements with some Catholic doctrine, I’m here to strengthen my faith and not tear down anyone else with my doubts. So i do more reading than posting. And when I post, I work hard to keep it positive.
I’ve seen plenty of facts posted here that discredit smith, but the facts can be presented with charity and without bullying.
thank you tarboy for having taken time for answer.
I understand your saying, but being politically correct is a form of hipocrisy adopted by our society so that evrybody is intitle rightly to have his own right. Here I guess we should firmly point out the attack based on just willing to believe from the mormons to christianity. For the right to be free to believe what they prefer they permit themselves to do whatever, and I say whatever they want with the name of Jesus, the Holy Spirit, the Virgin Mary. They alter to their own convenience and to try to justify their beliefs some of the Church Fathers affirmation.
Mormon missionaries are the less respectful person (with JW) for your faith that can ever exist. They knock at your door and you answer them I am Orthodox and they DON’T CARE, they are there to show you are wrong.
We are here to show they are wrong and that their wrongness is based on egoistic willing to be happy with a faulse doctrine instead that strugling withthe truth.
We are here to show their way of appropriating Holy names is deeply blasphematory to most of christians ears and that we have to suffer this in patience.
St. Paul was firm in explaining how we should behave with this kind of people.
I don’t care if something is done gently or not. Being firm is not being not kind.
Nowhere in the NT is written you should allow confusion of doctrine.
If we allow this behaviour in the name of being correct we partecipate in the spreading of faulsness.
There are obviously different style in preventing spreading of faulse doctrine and sometimes can get harsh.
But you have to consider that if something is so deeply precious in your heart and somebody attack it with his manipulations and for his own interests which include the interests of his beliefs not in a neutral way but at the point that what you believe become rubbish then I have to say it is difficult not to be emotionally involved.
You would say the same to protect your wife or children if people would tell about them insults of the worst degree.
Since we have to be clear and accept it behond what is politically correct: mormonism is the worst insult to Christianity ever.
