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So, I have to apologize for dropping the ball here, but I finally got around to watching the trailer for the much-anticipated Witnesses movie. It is really thanks to our good Doctor Scratch, who included the trailer in his wonderfully informative and guffaw-inducing yearly Top Ten of Mopologetics th...

Excellent observation amigo. I am SOOOOOOOO enjoying your thread here.... Thank you, Philo. I wish you and yours a very happy holiday season. I wish I were able to drop by and visit you to see how you celebrate. Someday I would love to commission you to do a carving on a wood chest for me. It has b...

An excellent tribute, Kishkumen. I studied Comp. Lit and had Professor Sondrup for a couple classes. He was incredibly intelligent and exuded a calm thoughtfulness. Thank you for sharing that, nemo. I agree. That calm thoughtfulness is something that I do not succeed in emulating well, but it is so...

Your post prompted me to get in touch with my PhD professor, Brain Deverall. Sadly, I learned he had passed away a few years ago. My research career had shifted away from the field of research I did my PhD in, so I had lost touch with the community and missed the memo. His obituary in the Sydney Mo...

On the one hand, I am sympathetic to their concern about the impact of the CES letter. Unfortunately, the problems are serious enough that none of these bandaid solutions is likely to have much impact. Too bad they feel they have to engage in intellectually dishonest, vapid, and offensive videos tha...

"This Maya art shows a king riding on a human chariot of sorts." ~Kwaku the Irresponsible Pandemic Mask Flouter

It's called a sedan chair, guys. Joseph Smith would have known what a sedan chair is.

Good grief.

Those videos are completely moronic. All these do is set up someone who actually does encounter the real criticisms for real disappointment. These things are intellectually vapid, deeply dishonest, and tasteless. Gross.

I feel like I just attended a Trump rally.

And yet... To me, it is most sad because of the logical corollary. You're cast out for resisting the orders of those in charge. Not sure about that "cast out" bit and want to call it a straw man in defense? Here is a reminder to consider first. Being marginalized for harmless choices that happen to...

Isn't this just a phase in the ongoing cycle of dragging those dogmatically clung to old ideas to the table of change? They will stamp feet, call names, and bemoan the wicked wrong anti-churchness of the faithless "progressives." And then when all seems lost to contention, church authorities will n...

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Tue Dec 01, 2020 7:20 pm

If somebody wants further understanding, they need to be free to embrace intellectual integrity without fear of being marginalized or ostracized from their faith community. Intellectual integrity is not a form of fundamentalism.

Powerful, Analytics. I agree.