David A. Bednar wrote:I'm offended by this OP. It makes me cry to view those on this board who have lost their testimonies and feel the need to denigrate the Lord's Prophets.
And Sister Bednar is very upset. She is going to bed early tonight, and that makes me upset as well.
I should bring out to answer my - discontinued - sock puppet, L_Tom_Perry...
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
David A. Bednar wrote:I'm offended by this OP. It makes me cry to view those on this board who have lost their testimonies and feel the need to denigrate the Lord's Prophets.
And Sister Bednar is very upset. She is going to bed early tonight, and that makes me upset as well.
Nothing for her to hang on--I mean, no more of your words for her to hang on?
Joseph Smith was clean shaven so only he would be allowed into BYU. Shockingly, the person who the school is named after would be violating the honor code with his beard.
Brigham. Hands down. MMM was, if not by his direct command, the fruit of his spiritual leadership. There is a lot of innocent blood on that man's hands.
The world is always full of the sound of waves..but who knows the heart of the sea, a hundred feet down? Who knows it's depth? ~ Eiji Yoshikawa
David A. Bednar wrote:I'm offended by this OP. It makes me cry to view those on this board who have lost their testimonies and feel the need to denigrate the Lord's Prophets.
And Sister Bednar is very upset. She is going to bed early tonight, and that makes me upset as well.
There are no denigrating members of the church.
“When we are confronted with evidence that challenges our deeply held beliefs we are more likely to reframe the evidence than we are to alter our beliefs. We simply invent new reasons, new justifications, new explanations. Sometimes we ignore the evidence altogether.” (Mathew Syed 'Black Box Thinking')