Comments on: “Protesters” Strengthening Your Testimonies

By: Matthew Gill

Matthew Gill — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 12:22:34 +0000

Members of the LDS church tend to say this a lot! mostly because they feel that anyone that brings to light something that is controversial about the church they have a need to jump right to its defence. I have noticed that this is something that Is very unique to the LDS church, its as if they cant stand on their own testimony until they feel they have some kind of opposition from outside. I am a Mormon, but welcome the opportunity to talk about Christ and the gospels with the need to talk about persecution, not that I think you guys were doing any of that! That is another problem. The modern LDS church don’t know hat real persecution is anyway, so they jump on any little thing like this and call it persecution. They engage in just the same things as you guys were doing and they call it outreach or missionary work, but when other religious people do the same thing they call it persecution of their so called true church, most of these people don’t even know anything about the history of the Mormon faith let alone what real persecution is all about. You and your friends are engaged in a great work, you are bringing people to a knowledge of Christ, since when has that been persecution. Maybe if the LDS church taught a little more about Christ and spoke of him a little more then they wouldn’t feel so upset.

By: Henry Lions

Henry Lions — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 23:33:57 +0000

the argument therefore seems to be:
Your telling me I am in the wrong religion proves I am in the right religion because I know you are in the wrong religion?
In that case why does your telling me I am in the wrong religion not prove I am in the right religion when I know you are in the wrong religion?

very well lets try a simple experiment and replace religion with something else

Your telling me I am in the wrong colour shirt proves I am in the right colour shirt because I know you are in the wrong colour shirt?
In that case why does your telling me I am in the wrong colour shirt not prove I am in the right colour shirt when I know you are in the wrong colour shirt?

Because the whole argument proceeds from a false assumption, that there is a provably right religion or colour of shirt
Until there is a factual proven frame of reference to base the argument upon it is a pointless contention between two unproven stances
Simply put this contention is based on nothing more than a strongly held opinion masquerading as a fact.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 16:47:23 +0000

We have communicated with this in private but I will say public ally I apologise that you were the victim of someone swearing at you on this blog, that comment has been deleted and was not from anyone associated with our ministry.

I think again it is short sighted to use this against the critical Mormon perspective as I have certainly had something very similar from a Mormon before. I also do not see this as evidence against Mormonism

Thanks for bringing this to my attention

By: Magic Fingers

Magic Fingers — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 15:33:38 +0000

I found that my correspondence with members of this website strengthened my testimony of the LDS church. The profanity and insults levelled at me proved exactly what kind of people choose to support your stance, and the grammar and spelling showed the level of intellect possessed by many of them.
So although it grieves me that you have managed to beguile people away from the church, I am grateful for being able to analyse the basis of my testimony and thereby to strengthen it.

By: jasonthickpenny

jasonthickpenny — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 10:40:11 +0000

I remember once speaking to a local Bishop, and showed him why I did not believe Mormons are Christian. He was really offended, but said he did not mind me “persecuting” him.