Darth J wrote:Anyway, in this event, participants are challenged to post one sentence (can be declarative or interrogative) that best summarizes Mormon apologetics without directly referring to Mormonism or apologetics about same.
The Mighty Builder responds:
The Mighty Builder wrote:You weren't there. You don't know. Nobody knows
Um, isn't that three sentences, not one?
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
Darth J wrote:Anyway, in this event, participants are challenged to post one sentence (can be declarative or interrogative) that best summarizes Mormon apologetics without directly referring to Mormonism or apologetics about same.
The Mighty Builder responds:
The Mighty Builder wrote:You weren't there. You don't know. Nobody knows
Um, isn't that three sentences, not one?
Picky, picky!
You weren't there; you don't know; nobody knows.
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
Dr. Joe Smith pooped his pants when he was three; he obviously can't talk in a mature manner about archaeology or history.
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Gary Updike drank a beer when he was thirteen; that's why his marriage failed when he took a close look at his religion's history and had a major disagreement with his wife over his new atheistic outlook.
Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded.-charity 3/7/07
MASH quotes I peeked in the back [of the Bible] Frank, the Devil did it. I avoid church religiously. This isn't one of my sermons, I expect you to listen.
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.