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Superficial glances certainly make it easy to laugh and dismiss. But any sustained scrutiny actually makes it less funny and far more formidable than you'd imag
by VaedaStrike 12y ago
Superficial glances certainly make it easy to laugh and dismiss. But any sustained scrutiny actually makes it less funny and far more formidable than you'd imagine.
You can laugh at the concept of the plates, when he announced them that's what many did. But then there was the inconvenient fact that the young man then, in a period of less than 90 days, produced a book of over 500 pages with a multitude of books each with it's own internal consistency as well as overarching consistency through the whole book, then there's the fact that, through that book, a global faith was formed that just passed 15 million adherents world wide. How do you explain the book? And is that explanation a more valid explanation than the one given by Joseph?
- goldenkey 12y agoI don't have an explanation but I am certainly more interested in the mystery with the claims you've laid out.
- VaedaStrike 12y agohttp://www.pbs.org/mormons/interviews/coe.html http://www.pbs.org/mormons/interviews/coe.html Just take a read through what an outsider, non-believer scholar thinks about it. One who's actually gotten into it. His take may surprise you. Additionally, not all of his points are accurate, and I obviously don't agree with his conclusion. But I think his take may give you pause in your 'Cookery' refrain.
- goldenkey 12y agoAh wow. Quite amazing irregardless of the truth value. I would consider Christ's crucifixion to be one of the most enigmatic and polarizing sacrifices. But memorization is still a bit aweing I suppose
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- VaedaStrike 12y ago"He convinced a small number of people at the beginning, the witnesses -- not all of them, but he did. This man had an incredible memory. He made it up and dictated it nonstop. It's very long, the Book of Mormon. I mean, it's an incredible feat of the mind. Even if it is all made up, to do something like that is really extraordinary. And how literate was he? He knew the Bible very well, because it comes out in the language of the King James Bible, which I was raised on. But to be able to carry this through to its logical end, that's amazing. Really, it is. I mean, if it's a work of fiction, nobody has ever done anything like this before. And I think it is fiction, but he really carried it through, and my respect for him is unbounded."
- goldenkey 12y agoInteresting take. Thank you for sharing your perspective.