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Too bad, really. I would not denigrate someone else's faith as shallow and superficial. Historically speaking, all of these religions spring from pretty much the same place, so this is just a matter of the snobbery of one group in the same overall tradition looking at others. Manichaeans saw themse...

This evening young firebrand Hanna Seariac posted on Twitter the following: This isn't a matter of politics, this is a matter of whether or not the restored gospel of Jesus Christ is taught at BYU. I had to laugh when I read this. Am I to understand that Mormonism is in danger of being exiled from ...

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Do you mean to say that the Papyra were not actually the ones Joseph Smith had and many people including Nibley were wrong about that? Or are you just saying you are not convinced by the original Nibly apologetic theory but many other people were. ... There are times it seems that outlandish things...

This is an excellent catch, Lemmie. Truly excellent. It is the kind of contradiction that the theory will not be able to maintain. Needless to say, it will have no impact on Carmack, since, like all apologists, individual bits of convergence are all that matters and not how they fit together into a ...

It'd been sometime since I'd listened to Mormon Stories ; John Dehlin is a man of many talents, but his project is, by definition, more about personal stories than ideas and so just doesn't interest me except when the ideas people come on. When that happens, it's thrilling, and I don't care what any...

I hope Symmachus didn’t find that offensive. Not at all. I welcome the correction. It's not the numbers approach per se that I have a problem with but its use as a substitute for thinking and, in the instance I'm referring to, for knowing something. Carmack is either engaging in a soft kind of dece...

Was following an exchange on this topic elsewhere a few days ago, with some amusement, and noticed that Karnak threw out a veiled challenge, as it were, to find some later examples of what he called "nonbiblical referential phraseology "of which/whom [ø] hath/has been spoken", without an it where t...

Thank you for that enlightening excursus, most esteemed Symmachus. I hesitate to ask for any further explanations as I do not wish to take up any more of your valuable time. You surely have more pressing and important pursuits to attend to. Yes, my graduate course on "Topics in Jaredite Meter" and ...

I looked at an older Skousen JBMS 3.1 article (1994), where he calls the "if...and" a non-English expression. Then I looked in Grammatical Variation, went through his proposed examples, throwing out some as unlikely, ending up with just over 40, with "if...and" the most common type, but finding tha...