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by Alphus and Omegus
Wed Sep 27, 2023 9:32 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Poll: Republicans see Trump as a ‘person of faith’ ... more so than Mitt Romney, Mike Pence and others
Replies: 3
Views: 3047

Poll: Republicans see Trump as a ‘person of faith’ ... more so than Mitt Romney, Mike Pence and others

More than half of Republicans see former President Donald Trump as a person of faith, putting him ahead of more vocally religious figures like his former vice president, Mike Pence, according to a new national poll conducted by HarrisX for the Deseret News. Registered voters were asked whether they...
by Alphus and Omegus
Wed Aug 16, 2023 3:01 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Manetho, Josephus, and the Book of Abraham
Replies: 86
Views: 4764

Re: Manetho, Josephus, and the Book of Abraham

In short....Dan Vogel's pius fraud theory. A pious fraud who got a 14 year old girl to marry him by threatening her family, along with all the other women--some already married whose husbands he dispatched to clear the way, two who were his foster children, and dozens of others--all married behind ...
by Alphus and Omegus
Wed Aug 16, 2023 2:48 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Manetho, Josephus, and the Book of Abraham
Replies: 86
Views: 4764

Re: Manetho, Josephus, and the Book of Abraham

For a long time, I have thought that the Book of Mormon was more like an ancient epic than an ancient history. An epic is a kind of poetic reflection on the past that is also a fabrication. Vergil’s Aeneid is filled with various bits of “lore” about ancient Italy and it incorporates lots of foundin...
by Alphus and Omegus
Wed Aug 16, 2023 2:34 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Manetho, Josephus, and the Book of Abraham
Replies: 86
Views: 4764

Re: Manetho, Josephus, and the Book of Abraham

It's an oddly politicized post in this thread from Shades. Very clearly it is at least arguable to have some caution in regards to a long-dead historical religious figure about whose inner motivations we have little documentation. Having that perspective has nothing whatsoever to do with one's viewp...
by Alphus and Omegus
Mon Aug 07, 2023 12:28 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Manetho, Josephus, and the Book of Abraham
Replies: 86
Views: 4764

Re: Manetho, Josephus, and the Book of Abraham

Interesting, Reverend. I'm having trouble choosing which lenses I should use to understand these three written passages. If I asked each of the three authors at the time of their writings the question: "is what you wrote what really happened?" what kind of answer should I expect to receive? Today, ...
by Alphus and Omegus
Thu Jul 20, 2023 6:25 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Mopologetics does not follow the data where the data lead
Replies: 12
Views: 1295

Re: Mopologetics does not follow the data where the data lead

It's the nihilism of fundamentalism. He seems not to realize that this posture can never persuade a non-believer and it often fails to be convincing to people who are questioning the received wisdom. Peterson also seems not to understand that this argument also justifies belief in any religious trad...
by Alphus and Omegus
Mon Jul 17, 2023 7:25 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: SeN isn’t obsessed with Christopher Hitchens
Replies: 26
Views: 1776

Re: SeN isn’t obsessed with Christopher Hitchens

Comments get stuck in automatic filters routinely. Might not be nefarious on Dan's part.
by Alphus and Omegus
Sun Jul 16, 2023 5:16 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Fox News' Next Potential Settlement/Liability?
Replies: 8
Views: 588

Re: Fox News' Next Potential Settlement/Liability?

The Dominion lawsuit proved undeniably that Fox is a propaganda outlet that deliberately tells its audience lies and that the audience likes to be lied to.

Fox is the ultimate "safe space" for ignorant morons who hate America because most of us aren't fundies.
by Alphus and Omegus
Sun Jul 16, 2023 5:11 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: From: Conservatives and "believing falsehoods"
Replies: 13
Views: 693

Re: Conservatives and "believing falsehoods"

This entire nonsense discussion about trans people is nothing to do with the OP. If someone wants to believe that it's the left which is stupider, let's see some real studies rather than useless and irrelevant fulminations against trans people, who have been documented to exist in many human societi...
by Alphus and Omegus
Sun Jul 16, 2023 12:48 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Reviving the Board
Replies: 193
Views: 8542

Re: Reviving the Board

i agree. And it really wouldn't take a rule change, because the way the rule is written, it is already included. just a reminder of what constitutes a 'derail' going forward. Maybe just an auto-generated reminder would be sufficient, kind of like how Reddit does it, for various flairs. Or after a r...