Runtu wrote:DCP may be a lot of things, but I don't see him as Belial.
This reminds me of that scene in Ace Ventura when his landlord walks up behind him and says in a low, gruff voice, "Ace" and he responds, "Yes Satan?" sees his landlord and says, "Oh, it's you! I mistook you for someone else."
God belief is for people who don't want to live life on the universe's terms.
If he were Coggins, every other post would have the word 'leftist' in it.
"Every post you can hitch your faith on is a pie in the sky, chock full of lies, a tool we devise to make sinking stones fly"
The Shins - A Comet Appears
Dr. Shades wrote:This reminds me of the observation I made about MA&D--its purpose is not to defend Mormonism; its purpose is to defend Mormon apologetics.
Great observation, Shades. It seems to me that a faithful Mormon could accept that Smith learned of divine councils from a perfectly natural source, but that he was inspired somehow in his take on it. In other words, why the rigidity as to how these things came about? It does seem that Mormon apologetics are developing their own strange kind of quasi-orthodoxy that they feel a burning need to protect with all their might. I have found this frustrating for some time. Who is to say they are right? Do they really represent the authoritative position of the LDS Church when they do this?