Comments on: The gift giver´s response http://kate.kateandneil.com/26/the-gift-giver%c2%b4s-response/ Surprisingly above average Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:08:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Kate http://kate.kateandneil.com/26/the-gift-giver%c2%b4s-response/#comment-28 Kate Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:57:11 +0000 http://kate.kateandneil.com/26/the-gift-giver%c2%b4s-response/#comment-28 Google displays a disclaimer when anyone searches for “Jew,” warning them of potentially disturbing results. (Try it!) A similar courtesy does not seem to be on the horizon for Mormons. Strange since the majority of the garbage you find on the internet while searching "Mormon" is indeed very offensive. Google displays a disclaimer when anyone searches for “Jew,” warning them of potentially disturbing results. (Try it!) A similar courtesy does not seem to be on the horizon for Mormons. Strange since the majority of the garbage you find on the internet while searching “Mormon” is indeed very offensive.

]]> By: aunt pam http://kate.kateandneil.com/26/the-gift-giver%c2%b4s-response/#comment-26 aunt pam Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:59:31 +0000 http://kate.kateandneil.com/26/the-gift-giver%c2%b4s-response/#comment-26 god bless tomas! may he one day send me a link to his blog... god bless tomas! may he one day send me a link to his blog…

]]> By: Mom http://kate.kateandneil.com/26/the-gift-giver%c2%b4s-response/#comment-25 Mom Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:16:56 +0000 http://kate.kateandneil.com/26/the-gift-giver%c2%b4s-response/#comment-25 Tom: if you read this - and I sincerely hope you do - please come to Utah and visit us and let us feed you some cookies! :) The most consistent thing I have noticed about non-Mormons' response to Mormons is that it is always very passionate. People love us or they hate us, sometimes rationally sometimes not. There is just something about Mormonism that evokes strong feelings from everyone. If you don't believe that, then try to list the religion of every other Republican nominee hopeful besides Mitt. You can't, can you? I think it has a lot to do with the fact that we are passionate ourselves about what we believe, as well as admittedly being excentric and non-traditional Christian. I, for one, would rather live a life passionately dedicated to my beliefs than to just "get by", and most active Mormons I have met believe the same and live accordingly. Teddy Roosevelt once said something that could be the motto of most Mormons: "Far better it is to DARE MIGHTY THINGS, even though checkered with failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." Donna a.k.a. Proud Mom of Kate Kelly Tom: if you read this - and I sincerely hope you do - please come to Utah and visit us and let us feed you some cookies!

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The most consistent thing I have noticed about non-Mormons’ response to Mormons is that it is always very passionate. People love us or they hate us, sometimes rationally sometimes not. There is just something about Mormonism that evokes strong feelings from everyone. If you don’t believe that, then try to list the religion of every other Republican nominee hopeful besides Mitt. You can’t, can you?

I think it has a lot to do with the fact that we are passionate ourselves about what we believe, as well as admittedly being excentric and non-traditional Christian.

I, for one, would rather live a life passionately dedicated to my beliefs than to just “get by”, and most active Mormons I have met believe the same and live accordingly.

Teddy Roosevelt once said something that could be the motto of most Mormons:
“Far better it is to DARE MIGHTY THINGS, even though checkered with failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”

Donna
a.k.a. Proud Mom of Kate Kelly

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