This guy wins "tool of the week." Shocker to hear a sob story (no doubt highly embellished, if not alltogether fabricated) about how offended he was that somebody would dare mock his grandfather's priesthood.

No, don't address issues raised in the article. Let's employ some good old fashioned momo misdirection. With any luck, people will feel bad for picking on your sacred beliefs and stop paying attention to the Great and Powerful OZ hiding behind the curtain.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765589707/Why-Bloomberg-Businessweeks-Mormon-finance-cover-was-unethical-and-offensive.html?pg=all

Do you think this guy would be complaining if it was about the Baptists, or the Catholics?

BusinessWeek did drop the ball with that cover. Misses the point of the article. Makes me sad. :(

Mormons get offended altogether too easily. It's comical how they claim to be an impregnable bulwark, the "fastest growing," and "the only true church" (thus God is on their side) and pretend to be so solid and great, then cry like little babies and get all butthurt at the drop of a hat.

It is OK for all Mormons to mock other faiths or religions by calling them as "lacking fulness of truth," "lacking divine authority," and call the Catholic church "the great and abominable church" in B. McConkie's days.

I don't think mocking othe faiths as "lacking the fulness of the truth" would cause any mormon to be surpirsed or angry in any Sunday meeting at all.

Why the double standards?

Maybe my memory is failing me, but didn't Bruce or some other GA call the Catholic Church the whore of the earth?

I almost feel ripped off that I am only considered "walking pornography" with my tank tops and sleeveless dresses and all.

Not only do I mock this guys grandfathers priesthood, I just entered his grandfather's name here, http://alldeadmormonsarenowgay.com/

This is my new favorite website! I could do this all night! I feel so blessed to be able to give these souls the opportunity to finally experience true joy in the eternities via gay love.

Watch and read....

Very soon, some of those zealous mormons would call that article on Bloomberg Businessweek "persecution."

What does his grandfather's good works and long-suffering have to do with the subject at hand? This is a red herring to divert attention and garner sympathy, nothing more. Cartoons and satire are part of the American dialogue, get used to it, Mormons.

It's always a no win situation with Mormon's, and that's what frustrates me most about articles like this one. They use their faith as a battering ram. Your standard Mo will literally run over anybody he or she wants, but don't you dare push back. If anybody remotely challenges them they instinctively fall on their swords and ask (as loudly and whiny as possible) why you would mock their faith.

They have no boundaries whaysoever, but expect others to stick to a strict set of boundaries themselves. Everything is fair game to a Mo--your own deeply held beliefs, your family, kids, privacy, etc. I'm starting to think Mormon's have double standards. :)

I don't buy any of their stories any longer. Until I find verified proof that this Einar Strand ever existed or did what he supposedly did, I'll treat it like a lie. Because most of those stories are. Between all the Mormons who were gallant in battle, I seriously don't know how Hitler survived fifteen minutes and Ho Chi Minh isn't currently part of the Garden State Parkway.

I'm sure some were quite valiant despite their BS religion, but I've found that too often these are family faith promoting stories that have little basis in reality. He could have well been a collaborator, like MAAAAANY Mormons were in "Germanic" countries.

Amen brother.

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/17/2012 04:35AM by suckafoo.

I tried to register to be able to leave a comment, but I wasn't allowed.

My point is that the grandfather wasn't mentioned once in the BusinessWeek article, nor were 'heroic efforts' by those who were fighting in WWII. The point of the article was the non-religious, profit-making activities by a corporation that erroneously calls itself a 'church.'

Ahhh,
yes but if you mock my grandfather's priesthood by dunking him in the temple, I'm supposed to just accept that, right?

G-g-g-g-gosh!

Don't go away mad, Jay Evensen / Deseret News.

Just take your cult and go away.

TSCC has told seminary and institute students that anti-mormons have always used "straw man" strategy in their argument.

Well, well, well, isn't the grandfather here the "straw man"?

The Bloomberg Businessweek article mentions nothing about this long-gone "grandfather," and the TBM who responds to the article has to make it all about him and his grandfather.

And TBM's are in a position of accusing the so-called-anti-mormons of using "straw man" strategy in their arguments?

What a joke! And, as always, TBM's are always pround of living and using "double standards" to their advantage.