FARMS/NAMIRS Neal A. Maxwell Quote

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If you go to the home page for FARMS/NAMIRS you will see the following quote from Neal A. Maxwell.

Neal A. Maxwell wrote:If the Church were not true, our enemies would be bored rather than threatened, and acquiescent rather than anxious. Hell is moved only when things move heavenward.


I must confess that recently the LDS church has left me very bored and having very little interest in correcting any falsehoods taught by the church. This is also why I have not participated much in discussion boards or blogs lately. So does that mean the LDS church is not true or that I am not an enemy of the LDS church?
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Me too. The church is so boring. Everything the leadership says is just repeated crap already been said. Mormonism is really a simple/stupid religion.

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Aristotle Smith wrote:If you go to the home page for FARMS/NAMIRS you will see the following quote from Neal A. Maxwell.

Uh, link?
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Aristotle Smith wrote:If you go to the home page for FARMS/NAMIRS you will see the following quote from Neal A. Maxwell.

Neal A. Maxwell wrote:If the Church were not true, our enemies would be bored rather than threatened, and acquiescent rather than anxious. Hell is moved only when things move heavenward.


I must confess that recently the LDS church has left me very bored and having very little interest in correcting any falsehoods taught by the church. This is also why I have not participated much in discussion boards or blogs lately. So does that mean the LDS church is not true or that I am not an enemy of the LDS church?


So Neil A Maxwell is an instructor at the "My Hair is a Bird, therefore X" school of logic?
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By that logic we could conclude that Scientology is true.
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Tarski wrote:By that logic we could conclude that Scientology is true.


If my hair were not a bird, my neighbors would drive an ice cream truck instead of a pinto, with snow chains instead of racing tires. Gremlins only meddle when pink unicorns begin their northward migration.
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Aristotle Smith wrote:So does that mean the LDS church is not true or that I am not an enemy of the LDS church?
Both, and Mormon doctrine is insipid to boot. I suspect that most TBMs posting, even looking, here have heard the same drivel so many times that within the first 5 minutes of a 'class' on Sunday, they know how the rest of the 'lesson' will unfold. Thankfully, smartphones were invented.
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sock puppet wrote:Thankfully, smartphones were invented.


I knew there was a reason the Divine Mind concocted those gizmos.

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The Dude wrote:So Neil A Maxwell is an instructor at the "My Hair is a Bird, therefore X" school of logic?


Founded on reasoning like that, how could they go wrong?
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Neal A. Maxwell wrote:If the Church were not true, our enemies would be bored rather than threatened, and acquiescent rather than anxious. Hell is moved only when things move heavenward.


If the Church wasn't true, people would submit passively?



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