funny Julia Sweeney TED talk

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_Sethbag
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funny Julia Sweeney TED talk

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Click here to listen to Julia Sweeney talk about God. Partway through she spends a few minutes talking about her conversation with Mormon missionaries. It's really funny, and it helps see how "normal" people view such a conversation, where Mormons talk about what they believe. She got the LDS doctrinal angles surprisingly correct, too, and it just sounds pretty stupid.

I think most of you will enjoy it. :-)
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_Who Knows
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I believe this was posted a couple weeks ago.

in case you were wondering why the lack of responses...

But yes, it's pretty damn amusing.
WK: "Joseph Smith asserted that the Book of Mormon peoples were the original inhabitants of the americas"
Will Schryver: "No, he didn’t." 3/19/08
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_Mercury
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Post by _Mercury »

I heard this talk originally on NPR during This American Life.

Good stuff!
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_Jason Bourne
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Re: funny Julia Sweeney TED talk

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Sethbag wrote:Click here to listen to Julia Sweeney talk about God. Partway through she spends a few minutes talking about her conversation with Mormon missionaries. It's really funny, and it helps see how "normal" people view such a conversation, where Mormons talk about what they believe. She got the LDS doctrinal angles surprisingly correct, too, and it just sounds pretty stupid.

I think most of you will enjoy it. :-)


I have listened to her before. She is pretty entertaining and thought provoking.
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_The Dude
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Post by _The Dude »

LOL Thanks for posting this -- I missed it the first time around. I once had a similar moment of reflection (to Sweeny's) when the Jehovah's Witnesses knocked on my door in Provo.
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