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Dr Exiled wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 11, 2020 3:56 am

Smac:

Dr. Jenkins offers a nice rebuttal to the hopped up on sugar cheerleaders like you and your brethren over at MD&D: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbe ... m-follies/

Thanks,

Dr. Exiled

Yep, to the article.

If I recall correctly, LDS leadership didn’t close their temples until a worker, in temple on a Wednesday or Thursday, became Utah’s first COVID death the following Sunday. Hopefully, they are more proactive now, rather than just reactive. Bednar’s rant about how being forced to close churches viol...

BYU provides a quality education for a reasonable price. I doubt their handling of the unexpected catastrophe was that different from most other universities, including your valiant university. I don’t mistake BYU for church leadership or for Liberty University, the latter of which was the very mod...

It's not just against BYU. There are cases elsewhere and more will likely pop up. Maybe he is just being spiteful, but it's also possible that he feels like he'll need to retake the courses and he will need fees for that. And if you have an elite private university with a huge endowment that primar...

It's not just against BYU. There are cases elsewhere and more will likely pop up. Maybe he is just being spiteful, but it's also possible that he feels like he'll need to retake the courses and he will need fees for that.

Thanks very much, Symmachus! I'll be looking at the sources you've suggested.

A recent internet discussion about Lehi in the Book of Mormon had me thinking about the historical Jews and their long history of rabbinical writings and scriptures. I've done a bit of reading and learned about the Babylonian exiles producing a relatively comprehensive Babylonian Talmud, when compar...

Icarus wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 21, 2020 3:14 pm

In a perfect world they'd be replaced with statues of unarmed black men shot by cops.

And unarmed women. Also, Sojourner Truth was awesome.

I just found out that Vera Lynn just died. My reaction, which I'm sure is common, was "Vera Lynn was alive?!" Vera Lynn would've been an adult when Martin Luther King Jr. was a child. And he seems like a ghost of the distant past to me. There are people alive today who personally knew former slaves...

Good stuff, Icarus. Thanks!