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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e8/SymbolofLatter-daySaintchurch.png Well, look at Him. His robe is fallen open –- it’s a bit sloppy looking if you ask me. It looks like a bed sheet wrapped about his Person. I notice a nipple is exposed. Wow. That seems a bit risqué if you ask me. I thi...

Oh I have thought about that for a few years now, Shulem. Had I invested my tithing I could retire now. Because I gave it to the church for forty years I will never be able to retire. Thanks LDS Church. Ouch. Double ouch! I really don't mean to rub it in on your account. It's tough thinking about i...

But then I am not the person who has insisted for so long that these texts had to be "by the hand of Abraham" or "by the hand of Mormon" in order for them to be super cooler than other ancient texts and worthy of special notice and admiration. Once the hand of Abraham is taken out of the picture, i...

The Book of Abraham is like the Kobayashi Maru of Mopologetics: it’s the ultimate “no-win situation,” and that’s why old-guard people like DCP, Welch, Hamblin, and Midgley would never touch it with a ten-foot pole. They have *always* farmed this stuff out to Gee, and they haven’t always been very s...

Hear that Smoot? Get out while you can. Right. And save that 10% and invest it into a retirement portfolio. Hey, RFM, just think how much more you'd have today (in your stash) if you had done that. Just saying. Ugh. I know, it's hard to think about the losses. Oh well. Think of it as an expensive l...

Again, thanks, Everybody Wang Chung, for starting this thread in showing that the name Alma was known as a masculine name in Smith's time and among his own neighborhood. The evidence to show that the name Alma was also a male name that would have been known to the Smith family, moreover the children...

Quite fascinating! And you have to wonder if this is a historic moment: are we witnessing the official "passing of the baton" from Gee to Smoot, with Smoot assuming the role of Chief Book of Abraham Mopologist? If so, he's really just only tentatively dipping his toe into the waters. Check it out: ...

consiglieri wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 01, 2020 1:01 am

"The Brotherhood of Unsavory Secrets."

Adam God and temple penalties come to mind. Brigham Young loved both.

Mormon scholar Mike Reed explored this same approach ten years ago. He listed 47 examples of pre-Book of Mormon male Almas on his blog, "Cultural Mormon Cafeteria." Here is a link to his interesting comments posted January 23, 2010: https://culturalmormoncafeteria.blogspot.com/search?q=alma+name+ma...

I've clocked in the first hour. Wow. Starting at the 50 minute mark and on for 10 minutes was quite the shocker. The so-called lineage policy and how missionaries in Brazil would try to determine if potential converts had negro blood was absolutely insidious. Frankly, I find Mormonism to be even mor...