Sanctimonius Pinheads R Us
(Disclaimer: I get a lot of mail and comments from Mormons, and some of it is mean-spirited and some of it is not. I do not make fun of the Mormons who write me nicely. I know they are nice people trying to be good, and live their religion. I do, however, take on people who take ME on. And thus, you have today’s post.)
You know, I find it remarkably interesting that a man who has a blog on the Internet devoted SOLELY to promoting his religion denounces ME as someone who is promoting religious intolerance, SOLELY because I don’t agree with his religion.
Of course, this is not news to me. Mormons have long felt they have the right to go out on knock on every door in the world and tell people that Mormonism is the ONLY TRUE RELIGION, but they do not believe that I, and others like me, have the right to tell people that WE don’t believe it’s true.
In Mormon-ville, it does not go both ways. How they cannot see this is one for the brain puzzlers book, but they don’t.
Drew Emmick is the author of a spectacularly boring blog on Mormonism, but don’t take my word for it. Go see for yourself. Mr. Emmick came to MY blog for the sole purpose, as far as I can tell, of leading people to his blog. What he thought would happen at that point is where it gets fuzzy. A mass return of all ex-Mormons to activity, due to his brilliance? I just can’t say.
Mr. Emmick left all sorts of nastygrams on my comments, including repeatedly dissing the Collins parents for not raising me right. Mr. Emmick better knock that shit off, or I’m going to head to Texas and bitchslap him. My mother is a perfectly lovely Mormon mother who bakes cookies with her grandkids, and helps me out when I need, and has served three missions and never misses a church meeting unless she is on her deathbed. I just don’t believe Mormonism to be true. Has nothing to do with the parental units.
Based on all of his comments, I conclude that Mr. Emmick seems to be somewhat of a sanctimonious, self-righteous pinhead but I won’t call him that because that would be mean, and in this time during which we celebrate Christ’s birth, I am trying to be more Christ-like. Mostly failing, too, I suppose.
See, here is just one of the MANY things Drew said.
That is essentially what Natalie is doing. And I do
believe that her motivation for this comes from a dissatisfied and
bitter adolesence. As I said in another post on this site, she is
attacking the church and its customs because of the way she was
raised. She is putting it all on the wrong source. She needs to take
a look at her parents role in her life, and the agency she has to
live her life free of the church now.
Drew don’t know me from squat, but he is really pretty boring. He’s uttering that same old, same old, that others before him have uttered. He also did NOT do his research. I left Mormonism because I BELIEVE IT TO BE PATENTLY FALSE. Good God, how much more clear can I make it? LISTEN UP! No one pissed me off, and my parents didn’t do a crappy job raising me (I have a brother and two sisters who live happily as Mormons), and the only reason I am NOT a practicing Mormon is because I DO NOT BELIEVE IT IS TRUE. I did try to have my name removed, but we all know how THAT turned out.
If Drew is really stupid enough to believe that the only reason Mormons ever leave is because they couldn’t live up to the standards, or someone made them mad, etc., etc., then he deserves the curse of a million eternal Fast Sundays where he NEVER gets to eat and has to listen to boring drivel for hours on end.
As for his accusations that I am slandering and bearing false witness against the Church, I call bullshit. (Dammit, I am REALLY trying not to swear, and Drew is not making it easy to turn over a new leaf.)
EVERYTHING I write on this site can be backed up with fact, and he knows it. He’s just pissed off because I didn’t present it in the pretty light that Mormons do. Drew even danced around the little “practicing polygamy” issue in one comment, mostly because he knows what I said is true.
TRUTH: While the church practiced polygamy in the 1800s and early
1900s and it was a part of celestial marriage, the church abondoned
this practice, and therefore members are not practicing it today.
Does that mean all the members of today’s church do not feel they are
going to the celestial kindgom? I have only one wife, and I know that
is not disqualifying me. But we don’t want to mention that because it
wouldn’t mislead people like Natalie is hoping to do.
PUHLEEZE. Get over yourself. There isn’t one person reading this who thinks you came close to even REMOTELY answering this question. Because you can’t. Because you KNOW that Mormon doctrine DOES teach that polygamy is and always had been a basic tenet of the Mormon religion, and that even though Mormons today do not practice polygamy, they do believe that it WILL be a practice in the Celestial Kingdom.
That’s the kind of stuff they don’t tell people until AFTER the drive-by baptism is over and they are firmly ensconced in the church.
Drew also said:
I could go on and on, and pick out every slander and lie in the
website, but you can do that for yourself. So the reality is, this
site slanders and bears false witness. That is breaking the
commandments. No matter what Christian denomination you are, that
commandment applies to you. You want to dicuss theology? I guess your
guys religion doesn’t teach the ten commandments or the Saviors
teaching to “Love thy neighbor”? Again, it would behoove all of you
to stop focusing on Mormonism and start becoming real Christians and
living the gospel.
But you couldn’t prove them lies, now, could you Drew? You can only SAY they are lies, and hope people will believe you. I personally would like to give my readers a little more credit when it comes to brain matter.
I love my neighbor just fine. I just don’t happen to BELIEVE my neighbor’s church is the only true church.
And as I have said in the past, I will leave MORMONISM alone when it leaves me alone. Hasn’t happened yet, and as you might be able to tell, won’t happen anytime soon.
