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Symmachus wrote:

Craig Paxton wrote:


So which one of these men is Palmer's secret insider contact???

The one in the white shirt and tie.

You are way off. It's the one without facial hair.

The odds as I see it: Odds that a mission president and member of the 1st Q of the 70 do not believe in the truth claims of the church: pretty good. Odds that An Insider's Guide played a role in the mission president and member of the 70 in disbelieving: still pretty good. Odds they would want to me...

I do not think it is a cop-out. Why does anyone who believes in Joseph's prophetic mission believe that Joseph is infallible? There is no reason to believe this. I see no reason at all why Joseph might be wrong. The anti-apologist is as tied to the literality as much as some apologists. I prefer th...

Having known a few dervishes, I do not think Bushman would be offended, despite the fact that I suppose you're trying to be insulting. I'm not trying to be insulting at all (to Bushman or the whirling dervishes). I don't think Bushman would be offended either. He described his testimony to me as my...

The difference between Richard Bushman and a whirling dervish is that one of them spins in more circles than the other. Both are mystics. I don't think Mormonism lends itself to mysticism, but to each their own.

So the compilers of the Bible Dictionary are as capable as reading the plain meaning of the scriptures as I was as a teenager. In spite of the recent concession in the Fall of Adam entry, I assume the mopologists will accuse the Bible Dictionary compilers of being fundamentalists. I think we would ...

This is a fascinating topic that I know very little about, but it makes me wonder if perhaps it would have been more accurate for Marlin Jensen to say, "maybe since [1858], we never have had a period of, I'll call it apostasy, like we're having right now." Mormons celebrate the "Days ...

I enjoyed this comment on the article: The older I become, the less tolerant I am of religious lies, no matter how noble the intention. “Betrayal” is a kind word to describe the feeling one has when discovering that people trusted to lead into truth were in fact offering one deception after another....

Another factor that could play into it is this:

Girls.

He's 22. If he is striving to follow the counsel to not delay marriage and becomes twitter-pated with a good Mormon girl, he may shelve any questions he has in the name of love.