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RayAgostini wrote:Hello, MDB,
Do you think that these traits exist in both apologists and critics?
Laird Wilcox
on Extremist Traits.
Thanks in advance for your opinions.
quaker wrote:USA land of the extremist.
The whole history of these books [the Gospels] is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills.
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, January 24, 1814
Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him [Jesus] by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being.
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Short, April 13, 1820
MAD's Twitter feed wrote:Posting at Mormon Dialogue and Discussions:
A Primer for Apologists.
by: The Pahoran, William Schryver, and Loran "Droopy" Blood
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Bond James Bond wrote:MAD's Twitter feed wrote:Posting at Mormon Dialogue and Discussions:
A Primer for Apologists.
by: The Pahoran, William Schryver, and Loran "Droopy" Blood
Twitter contacts:
Twitter:@KiwiPahoran
Twitter: @TheSchryverman
Twitter: @NotALeftistgrrrrrr
Darth J wrote:Now Ray, you are the one who compared disputing the truth value of the LDS faith-promoting narrative to the Final Solution of the Third Reich, right?
RayAgostini wrote:Darth J wrote:Now Ray, you are the one who compared disputing the truth value of the LDS faith-promoting narrative to the Final Solution of the Third Reich, right?
That's quite a stretch, particularly since I've been questioning the "truth-value" (in absolute terms) of the LDS Church since 1985.
Where were you in 1985, Darth?
Darth J wrote:
I was shoving Mormons into the gas chamber.