Posted by:
NewPoster
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Date: February 19, 2012 12:46AM
I have been lurking for a while now, this is my first post. I was raised LDS but in a part member home and a pretty liberal family which helped me decide to leave when I was 20 and in college (I also never fit the gung-ho TBM mold and basically only went to Sunday meetings starting at 18). I am still friends with lots of TBMs on facebook and have just been so disgusted recently with the lack of respect for other ways of thinking. First was the post of an "interview" with some GAs that was really published in a church publication about how gay marriage wasn't ok because it was changing the definition of marriage and since it wasn't from God, it wasn't ok (but they needed to push that on the whole country apparently, and also polygamy was ok because it came from god)
There were comments on the post saying how you couldn't argue with that logic and it made me so furious because they couldn't understand how other people have different religious beliefs!
Then recently there have been posts on baptism for the dead. Someone posted an article explaining them, and a comment from a Jewish person tried to say how it was insulting to perform these ordinances on deceased Jews and especially holocaust victims, and a TBM responded by saying that the Jewish person should understand that they have to follow god's laws even if people get upset (and therefore Jews should be ok with it). I mean really??!! They can't even see that such an argument could be used by the other side to not perform ordinances!
Today I snapped and posted that it is totally reasonable to be offended by dead dunking, and I was attacked by a TBM who said I should know better! I specifically said that freedom of religion allows Mormons to do it, but that they cant get upset (or do anything) when people complain, or campaign against the practice if they are going to be incredibly offensive!
I just do not understand why they can't even see the other side of the argument! I understood and accepted that there were other religious beliefs when I was a teenage TBM (maybe this is why I never fit in and was uncomfortable pushing religion on anyone) so how can these adults not understand?
Sorry for the long vent, just getting really annoyed about this and I am very pregnant so that is probably not helping lol!