SteelHead wrote:I got to go with DarthJ. The word rationale is an oxymoron when applied to the religious. Religion requires the subjugation if reason to faith.
The fact of the matter is that vast numbers of extremely rational and educated people do not take this kind of shallow, intellectually facile atheism seriously, preferring to approach such questions with with philosophical depth and close reasoning.
Indeed, there is a great deal of intellectual and philosophical rigor subsumed in the concept of God being unable to explain where the Book of Mormon narrative happened, or why the overwhelming evidence is against the revealed truth that the human race originated 6,000 years ago in Missouri, but yet the Creator of the Universe is extremely concerned about how many earrings girls can have.
And let us not forget the sober, profoundly rational and intellectually serious message of our current prophet: "One, two, three, let's go shopping!"
bcspace wrote: Here's something sinister for you though. Do you think the first example in the list implies plural marriage? To the Young Women, the word was "family". To the Young Men, the word was "families".
lulu wrote:I got it. Take a keg and a tap to priesthood meeting. Tell the young men that its their place to tap that.
lol. I hear ya. I'd tap that. oh, a keg? never mind.
The keg would have root beer in it, of course.
Or you could take a hocky stick and a puck to class. And talk about how both are different but both necessary to slip one passed the goalie.
"And the human knew the source of life, the woman of him, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, 'I have procreated a man with Yahweh.'" Gen. 4:1, interior quote translated by D. Bokovoy.