Lucretia MacEvil wrote:Nightlion wrote:Be interested to no end though to hear of echos in the Book of Mormon of young Joseph Smith's surgery on his leg. Do tell.
I'd have to refer you to a book, and I can't really recall the name for sure. Maybe something like "Into the Mind of Joseph Smith." Author's name is Anderson, I believe.
Briefly, because I figure you'll completely disregard it anyway, 9-yr-old Joseph was operated on by a team of surgeons wielding huge knives on his little leg. No anesthesia. Surviving that ordeal [theoretically] created a narcissistic and grandiose mindset, reflected in all the sword swinging you find in the Book of Mormon.
I can't help but wonder if your use of the word "smite" in a recent post above (and Harmony remarked on as needlessly violent) has anything to do with your religious studies. Just saying ...
No doting parent is going to allow a young 9 year old to watch the doctor operate. According to my experience 9 is too old to become narcissistic. And probably too old for grandiosity but I am not as familiar with that.
My "smite" usage was the key to my paraphrasing Isaiah quoted by Christ were they smite the shepard and sheep are scattered. A shot over the bow I suppose, with me trying haplessly to be interesting.
And,
harmony, I agree that the Catholics had very smart people leading academia and I count them smart like scientists and not religious because, well, they aren't. Sort of like how the LDS have departed from being religious and are on the same tract as the Catholic being interested mostly in their great big self establishing a worship of themselves after the image and likeness of the world. Apostate.
Protestants were, at heart, seeking Zion. Today you can find a few still like that.