What is the ratio of defenders/skeptics/etc on this board?

[_Darth J]

You know, I remember one of my friends in Kindergarten was dead-set on lightning originating from space aliens.

Yeah, I think it's silly when people cling to infantile, ludicrous superstitions.

I bet those pre-Columbian Hebrew Christians in Guatemala were far too busy working on their tapir ranches to fall for ridiculous ideas like that.

And anyway, it's common knowledge that somewhere between the entire human race entering mortality in 4,000 B.C. with two people in Missouri, and the entire planet turning into an ocean except for the people and animals on Noah's ark, any evidence of space aliens would have been destroyed.

[_Nightlion]

Where's the option for, "Clearly, the church is full of crap"?

Saying I'm a skeptic doesn't quite describe it.

Hey, I believe that the church is full of crap too.
Crap of magnolia.

Explanations 10 cents.

There is no option for transcendent LDS.

[_moksha]

My guess is that the quality of Mormon Discussions precipitously declines when the percentage of Mormons dips below 30%. The greatest dynamism would therefore be an even mix. The ideal mixture fails to occur because many Mormons have been offended on this site and stay away from it.

On the Mormon Dialogue board, the moderators have sought to do away with having a dynamic board in favor of having a faith promoting board. That choice takes the starch out of any apologetic strength and training the board could furnish to the faithful. So in the end it is a dilemma: Come to Mormon Discussions to practice apologetics and risk being offended or stay away and be trapped in a tunnel vision existence.

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