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There are several religion classes that must be taken. This shows all the core requirements, including religion classes: m I've taken all of them and I have never once heard a testimony in any of the classes. Dr. Pike, in fact, never discusses an LDS doctrie or belief without first explaining that ...

There are several religion classes that must be taken. This shows all the core requirements, including religion classes: m I've taken all of them and I have never once heard a testimony in any of the classes. Dr. Pike, in fact, never discusses an LDS doctrie or belief without first explaining that ...

I explained that we generally take a good hard look at stuff and not just welcome everything that appears to support our faith. You should care about the label "apologist", Mak, because judging from your fractured posts here you don't know what it means. I suggest that you try to really f...

It doesn't. As Shades, Keen, Beastie and all the rest who make that claim know perfectly well. Pahoran has this strange habit of asserting that his perceived opponents "know" things "perfectly well". It is borderline delusional. No, the MAD board is far more censored than this b...

Hey MM, Quick thought. I'm getting ill and my fingers are so frozen from this cold that they're not working. When I mean that something is "not Biblical", I don't mean that in the sense that the Bible is the only standard for truth. It's not. What I mean is, don't ascribe something to the...

First of all, the Cain doctrine is just disgusting. My skin is the color it is because my ancestors were African, European, and Native American. And my African ancestors were not black because they're the offspring of the first murderer in existence. This teaching is hurtful and wrong. Very well sa...

See link below for article in today's Trib about Jeffrey Nielsen, the BYU prof. who was fired last year after writing a "letter to the editor" criticizing the LDS Church's stand on gay marriage, among other things. Sounds like he's doing well. I admire him for his courage and wish him all...

There are hundreds of miles of trails in Rock Canyon, Provo Canyon and along the Bonneville Shoreline trail. Provo Canyon's river trail starts at Utah Lake and is fifteen miles of paved walking, running and biking all the way up to Vivian Lake. Sundance has trails, you can drive a short distance to ...

It is my opinion that there are some parts of the LDS faith and also Conservative Christianity that are simply not biblical . Is that a good thing or a bad thing? And as follow up questions: why should we trust the current biblical canon and reject all the thousands of other texts that have been ex...

Even among educated people, evolution is often a very misunderstood concept because of their arrogance. Some have taken the notion to mean that the highly subjective concept of "improvement" is the ultimate purpose of evolution. Gould argues very persuasively that that is not the "pur...