My friend just updated her cover to this...

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=384350464998381&set=a.338929589540469.60659.338926056207489&type=1

Really?

Nevermind the lives lost defending your freedom. In memory of your religion? your wives?

Granted, I don't have a clue about the scripture reference, because I don't give a damn.

It just rubbed me the wrong way.

I think you should come up with your own facebook cover. It would have a picture of golden plates and a flaming sword, and across the piture in huge, HUGE letters would be written "Joseph Lied."

Yes.

Inthenameofjesuschristamen.

Disgusting. If you read the passage and the ones just before it, it is clear that this is all a jab at apostates and anyone who disagrees with Mormons. Using the flag in this way is an insult to our beloved veterans everywhere. It is also an insult to everyone who believes in equal rights, since Mormons have to be forced to comply with basic human decency.

This is Mormon propaganda and is a salute to themselves, not to what the Fourth of July is all about, those who fought for freedom.

I commented. Couldn't help it.

"Confused. Isn't the flag a symbol of religious freedom?"

My husband is a disabled veteran. My father chose military service over a mission, and our family was treated like crap for it, and my grandfather was a WW2 hero.

This was the FB convo...

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12 people like this.

ME: Confused. Isn't the flag a symbol of religious freedom?
7 hours ago · Like

HER: Yep, what is confusing?
6 hours ago via mobile · Like

ME: I guess "in memory of" confuses me...we have freedom, religion, children...trying to reconcile the memory of things that still exist?
5 hours ago via mobile · Like

RANDOM TBM: The flag IS a symbol of freedom. God, religion, children and family used to be written boldly on the face of this great nation but they are under attack and fading fast. Without these, the flag is but a piece of fabric blowing in the breeze...
4 hours ago · Like · 1

HER: Sorry Wendy, wasn't trying to be confusing. I like to look at the flag and be reminded of those freedoms. They don't feel as important in general society as they once did.
4 hours ago via mobile · Like · 1

ME: My husband, father, and grandfather all served in different branches of the military. When I read "in memory of...freedom, religion, etc", it reads to me as a statement of mourning for what has been lost, opposed to that of gratitude for the liberties we have.
about an hour ago via mobile · Like · 1

HER: Thank your family members for me for serving to protect the freedoms I enjoy.
about an hour ago via mobile · Like

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Um. Well, you're welcome. I guess?

wendy Wrote:
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> ME: My husband, father, and grandfather all served
> in different branches of the military. When I read
> "in memory of...freedom, religion, etc", it reads
> to me as a statement of mourning for what has been
> lost, opposed to that of gratitude for the
> liberties we have.
> about an hour ago via mobile · Like · 1

So true. Just another example of Pintrest Mormons Gone Wild. They don't get that others read it literally and not in some fictional context.

I found this one about truth ironic.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=356465514453543&set=a.338929589540469.60659.338926056207489&type=1&permPage=1

That is funny! I wish I could have a talk with that man. Just 5 minutes is all I ask.

http://www.postmormon.org/exp_e/index.php/magazine/pmm_article_full_text/211

Is Captain Moroni fashioned after George Washington?

To JoD3:360: It always bothered me that the BoM talks about liberty just like the founding fathers did. Thanks for the good link.

To Fidget: Oh my. Should this be my next facebook cover? I think so!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/02/2013 11:13AM by earlyrm.

Reading further on down the page, in Alma 46:20

"Behold, whosoever will maintain this title upon the land, let them come forth in the strength of the Lord, and enter into a covenant that they will maintain their rights, and their religion, that the Lord God may bless them."

I guess that "title" belonging to the original inhabitants had somehow "lapsed".

Puffed up bastards!