Benson blows Monson's Arthur Patton tale out of the water

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Re: Benson blows Monson's Arthur Patton tale out of the wate

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Kishkumen wrote:
Steve Benson wrote:If it walks and talks like a Latter-Day duck, it probably is one.


"Snap judgments made from a position of ignorance have no place in your personal history.["/quote]


That sums up Mormonism in a nutty-shell.
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Steve Benson wrote:I agree with you that the truth is not terribly important in Mormonism.


And a sense of proportion is not terribly important to you.
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Re: Benson blows Monson's Arthur Patton tale out of the wate

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I have a question.

if the military record shows "missing due to own misconduct" is that different to the military recording that Patton was dead?
In other words, has the military ever conceded Patton was dead?
That said, with the Book of Mormon, we are not dealing with a civilization with no written record. What we are dealing with is a written record with no civilization. (Runtu, Feb 2015)
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Re: Benson blows Monson's Arthur Patton tale out of the wate

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Bazooka wrote:I have a question.

if the military record shows "missing due to own misconduct" is that different to the military recording that Patton was dead?
In other words, has the military ever conceded Patton was dead?


That's why I keep asking if anyone has ordered and reviewed Patton's service record. Hell, if no one else does it, I will.
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One time I got a Coke Zero at the Chik-fil-A at City Creek. I felt that was a two-birds-with-one-stone approach to expressing both my support for the LDS Church and my rampant homophobia.
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Darth J wrote:I agree with Steve Benson that this board has seen enough of DrCamNC4Me's relentless cheerleading for LDS truth claims.

I have never seen him refute the point that there have been thousands of edits to the Book of Mormon, either.


Until now, I thought the fact that he had never accused Joseph Smith of being a member of the Illuminati was the strongest evidence of DocCam's Mormon faith. Now I see it his failure to have a meltdown over Monson's stories.
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Quote from Doc: "I'm just going to go ahead and capture this before one of many edits that are sure to follow.:

Have you managed to capture the nearly 4,000 edits made to the text of Book of Mormon since its 1830 first edition was released?

If so, please note them here so that you can demonstrate that you are no respecter of editors.
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Darth J wrote:One time I got a Coke Zero at the Chik-fil-A at City Creek. I felt that was a two-birds-with-one-stone approach to expressing both my support for the LDS Church and my rampant homophobia.


You let me down man. Now I don't believe in nothin'.

I'm going to law school.
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Kishkumen wrote:
Darth J wrote:I agree with Steve Benson that this board has seen enough of DrCamNC4Me's relentless cheerleading for LDS truth claims.

I have never seen him refute the point that there have been thousands of edits to the Book of Mormon, either.


Until now, I thought the fact that he had never accused Joseph Smith of being a member of the Illuminati was the strongest evidence of DocCam's Mormon faith. Now I see it his failure to have a meltdown over Monson's stories.


Come to think of it, I have never seen DrCamNC4Me offer a cogent explanation as to how the human race began in Missouri circa 4,000 B.C.E.
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Kishkumen wrote:
Steve Benson wrote:You see, Kish, that Doc has provided no meaningful counter evidence.



I should add that I don't give a tinker's damn about Monson's stories. I am not at all invested in them, and I would hope that anyone with an ounce of brains would not hang their important personal life decisions on these tales or the ones in which he might have brought a widow a pie instead of a cake.


It's clear that you don't give a tinker's damn about the lies, embellishments, inventions, exaggerations and falsehoods in Monson's stories. That has been obvious from the beginning. Carry on, obliviously.
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