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I am still getting my thoughts and feelings together since I recently have come to accept that what Voltaire said about the Holy Roman Empire (neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire) essentially describes how I feel about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I have been on MADB for a whi...

I would like to propose that the LDS Church would have to have any kind of consistent, definitive doctrine before a member could be apostate. That would include not using the get-out-of-jail-free card of [insert LDS leader here] was "just speculating/giving his opinion/prophets are only prophe...

Dwight Frye wrote:Actually, God loved the Simpsons, but the writers stopped seeking His divine guidance, so God now favors Family Guy.

No, God is angry at us. That is the explanation for Family Guy.

Frankly, I think God has a potent sense of humor, and He quite enjoys seeing the “wise in their own eyes” smash their faith to pieces on the rough-edged corners of the apparent contradictions and puzzles of the restored gospel. Simpler minds clearly have an advantage when it comes to such things. S...

Sure Moksha, let's make the best out of neo-Nazism and murder a lot of people but less than we would have if we'd made the worst out of neo-Nazism. Funny you should say that. Civil authority is of divine origin. It may be more or less adapted to the needs of man; more or less just and benevolent, b...

I would like to propose that the LDS Church would have to have any kind of consistent, definitive doctrine before a member could be apostate. That would include not using the get-out-of-jail-free card of [insert LDS leader here] was "just speculating/giving his opinion/prophets are only prophet...

The question that is closer to right is whether early claims about the Book of Mormon are better than the internal text itself. That leads us into the fascinating area where you will have to define and defend a particular concept of a prophet to which I don't hold, and which Joseph himself doesn't ...

This is the main question you can't get a straight answer to from TBM's?

If the seagull story isn't true, then who brings us our presents on Pioneer Day?

Scratch: Let me then attempt to dispel any ambiguity concerning my convictions: I confronted my first anti-Mormon tome ( Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon? ) in 1978, while working as a janitor in the Church History Library wing at the COB in SLC, and just prior to serving a mission to Italy (whe...