It's sometimes fun to wonder about what one's neighbors do on the various holidays: what would it be like to peer into their living room on an Easter Sunday afternoon? Lucky for us, your local, friendly Mopologist at "Sic et Non" has a public living room! Shall we join him to see what he's been up to today, on this day celebrating Christ's sacrifice? Well, first of all, he's got good news for you:
Is it as wonderful as news about the "Witnesses" movie? What if we compare, side-by-side, the number of times Christ's resurrection has been mentioned versus the "Witnesses" movie during the past year? Or is the Resurrection something that only merits mention once per year? In any event, the Christ-like festivities were on full display in *this* Mopologist's living room, such as this dismissal of Gemli:Daniel Peterson wrote:Christ is risen. That is the most wonderful news imaginable.
Here he accuses Gemli of being "threatened" by the Witnesses:DCP wrote:But that's a lazy response here, where there's nothing to suggest that the witnesses were wrong or that they were lying either to themselves or to others. That people can be mistaken and can lie doesn't prove, in any given case, that people are wrong or have lied.
More material that suits the mood of today's festivities:I've read quite a bit about this matter. The unreliabillity of eyewitness testimony is commonly dragged out when critics of the Church wish to discredit the Book of Mormon witnesses. But they push the idea far beyond its actual relevance and applicability, and, very obviously, they almost always forget all about it when they don't desperately need to dispose of threatening witnesses.
And what about ridiculing Gemli, and accusing him of "retreat"?LOL. Just as we can't be sure when you committed your first homicide or when you first began spying for the People's Republic of China.
All in all, there appear to have been a whopping sixteen snide, condescending comments aimed at Gemli on this Easter Sunday! And then there is this odd slam on the African American scientist, Neil DeGrasse Tyson:It's amusing to see gemli's belated and very grudging retreat.
Right. There's nothing wrong with running two blogs (Interpreter and SeN). It won't gain you any respectability, but there's nothing wrong with it.From what I can tell, Dr. Tyson is generally thought of as a gifted science popularizer rather than as a cutting-edge researcher.
There's nothing wrong with that, of course, but it doesn't win Nobel Prizes.
And what better way to wind down on Easter Sunday than making fun of Aussieguy?
Of course, he's mocking what he sees as noel's penchant for changing the topic. How funny! What a great way to celebrate Christ's atonement!DCP, in response to noel wrote:Egypt has one of the longest histories of any country, tracing its heritage along the Nile Delta back to the 6th–4th millennia BCE. Considered a cradle of civilization, Ancient Egypt saw some of the earliest developments of writing, agriculture, urbanization, organized religion, and central government.
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Indeed, on another thread, Dean Robbers observed:
Hence the horseplay on Easter Sunday, no doubt. Maybe it would be best if the "living room" wasn't open for public display?Dr. Robbers wrote: You have DCP nailed. I've never seen somebody so central to a cause who can say so little about what the cause actually believes. The Brethren are in this same boat. There is nobody in Mormonism who appear to know less about what Mormonism teaches than the leaders themselves.