DarkHelmet wrote: I don't get why people think the Book of Mormon is boring. It is side splitting fun if you read it as a parody of religious texts, much like Blazing Saddles is to Westerns.
Though of course this scene in Blazing Saddles was definitely inspired by the Book of Mormon. Why else are the Indians speaking Yiddish?
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
DarkHelmet wrote: I don't get why people think the Book of Mormon is boring. It is side splitting fun if you read it as a parody of religious texts, much like Blazing Saddles is to Westerns.
Though of course this scene in Blazing Saddles was definitely inspired by the Book of Mormon. Why else are the Indians speaking Yiddish?
LOL. Blazing saddles also supports Mark E. Peterson's claim that the Negroes are after our white women.
“I think I have read enough to give you an idea of what the Negro is after....He will not be satisfied until he achieves it by intermarriage. That is his objective and we must face it.” - Mark E Peterson
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775
Perhaps I just don't get it, but it appears to me what is going on with BYU at this point in time is no different than Sept. 1993. A cleaning house going on, keeping people inline with The Correct Line Of Speaking And Thinking, and getting rid of those who don't.
Ironic, in oh so many ways.
Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction -Pope Benedict XVI
madeleine wrote:Perhaps I just don't get it, but it appears to me what is going on with BYU at this point in time is no different than Sept. 1993. A cleaning house going on, keeping people inline with The Correct Line Of Speaking And Thinking, and getting rid of those who don't.
Ironic, in oh so many ways.
Ummm... I hope not. Those folks were all excommunicated.
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
I am a proud defender of Dan Peterson on this board and on MDD.
I intend to lay a foundation that will revolutionize the whole world. Joseph Smith We are “to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to provide for the widow, to dry up the tear of the orphan, to comfort the afflicted, whether in this church, or in any other, or in no church at all…” Joseph Smith
why me wrote:I am a proud defender of Dan Peterson on this board and on MDD.
Thanks for that.
"And the human knew the source of life, the woman of him, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, 'I have procreated a man with Yahweh.'" Gen. 4:1, interior quote translated by D. Bokovoy.
why me wrote:I am a proud defender of Dan Peterson on this board and on MDD.
People are proud of the oddest things...
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
why me wrote:I am a proud defender of Dan Peterson on this board and on MDD.
Maby you should try to discern between DCP and the Lord?
About Joseph Smith.. How do you think his persona was influenced by being the storyteller since childhood? Mastering the art of going pale, changing his voice, and mesmerizing his audience.. How do you think he was influenced by keeping secrets and lying for his wife and the church members for decades?