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It seems the line is a bit blurry between the DezNat movement and some Mopologists. Likely we are just seeing an auxiliary arm.


https://wheatandtares.org/2020/08/08/de ... tradition/

LCM- I happen to have been around well over fifty years ago and I very much longed for Black people being able to be Endowed and hence for Black men to be ordained to the Priesthood. Sludge is looking for statements that support his hatred. By my count that was at minimum one hundred sustaining vot...

Midgley I have exactly no interest in the "entire life story" of gemli. And I have not fashioned a "stick figure" of who gemli is. https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson/2020/07/death-is-nothing-more-than-a-doorway-something-you-walk-through.html#comment-5007516481 Also Midgley: I very much doub...

There is a very good reason why no one sees any continued writings by LDS and former BYU Professors Scott Woodward, Keith Crandall, or Michael Whiting concerning Lamanite DNA.

Recycled ten year old articles about Lamanite DNA do not age well. An interesting quote from the article It is possible that Lehi and his group may have fathered a genealogically large posterity that was eventually absorbed and became part of the current, or at least the pre-Columbian, native popula...

Namely, Billy showed him how to calculate a Likelihood Ratio, as he didn't know how nor did he understand what an LR really is, That’s embarrassing to the author and the publishing journal should have had a real statistician look over the methodology and numbers at some point before publication. Th...

I think it rich that he remains blind to the racism in the Book of Mormon itself. However, I am sure in his mind the racist passages aren't racist because "white" is changed to "pure" and "skin of darkness" laughingly means dark animal skins to some incredibly delusional apologists. If you claim so...

Recycling from 2011, Professor Wright has had some challenging health problems over the last year that he is just now beginning to recover from. Most of his Religious writing is similar to this, bring out some gee whiz parallelisms. The apologists eat this up as proof, and says "see the church is tr...

In the latest bit of Mormon victim mentality, DCP comments on the latest about the Book of Mormon musical. In a particular historical moment that's intensely focused on questions of racism, a movie of the Book of Mormon musical might be very problematic. It ridicules Latter-day Saints and their fait...

As entertainment by as this I believe this is a great example of Poe’s Law: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture stating that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views so obviously exaggera...