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I don't see it. Delegation has been a part of the church's message for decades. One of my ancestors was bishop of the Payson Ward in the 1800s for 25 years. Every five years the Church would call a new "Priesthood President" and he'd run the ward and all its meetings. The Bishop would be responsible...

The entire Kwaku debacle did no good for them in any area. There were probably vastly more complaints than baptisms... And if there is one thing the Brethren want even more than converts is a nice clean image of sweet goodness oozing out of the religion..... What the freak is behind this action in ...

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Wed Mar 24, 2021 10:49 am

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Wed Mar 24, 2021 6:01 am

He invades the private lives of people who are not public figures.

Does he try to goad them into dropping their cloak of anonymity?

You can't help being a cretin with your anonymity. Few can.

I hear you, no fan of Bill's style in his podcasts, don't know much about him though. Dr. P's writing, at least on his blog, is too calculated for me. He posts on certain topics just to get in ridiculous comment wars. He is the charismatic leader for the blog fanboys, always dangling the carrot of ...

Yahoo, so it is okay to go after Bill Reel but not Dr. Peterson? I think this quote of yours also fits the good Dr. He had long been on the other board and lacked any kind of filter to control his misbehaving self-promotion. The Interpreter will not change like FAIR has now stated they will. The on...

FAIR has misfired on these videos and other matters. Its like nobody there is (1) investigating the backgrounds of persons they're pushing out to be public spokespersons and (2) thinking about the optics of what they are doing. Anybody looking at those videos must have known that they were absurdly ...

Perhaps it is a combination of things that led to his demise over at the DN? Sloppiness, plagiarism, an unwillingness to be bothered with details like sources (DCP's recent use of a grade school book instead of respected legal treatises), and a lack of effort in putting together the columns (some s...

It is interesting that you "appeal to authority" as a means to discredit testimony, something that a court would not admit.

I find the witnesses' testimony to be of decent credit.

The whole Book of Mormon geography genre is heartbreakingly bad and unscientific. I've spent hours in the stacks at Utah and BYU and laff at the books in the stacks. People really write this stuff, get interested in it? Why? Dr. Sorenson is the best of the best, but even he doesn't really subscribe ...

They don't exactly sign on to Dr. Sorenson, although I don't know much about Givens. If they don't sign on to Sorenson's model, why did all three write such glowing endorsements of Sorenson's magnum opus, Mormon's Codex , that are published on the Deseret Books website? Mormon’s Codex is the culmin...