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Daniel has an incredibly long new post about this on his blog. After reading, all I can think about is how baffled the Nazarene would have been if someone had explained all of this to him on the shores of Galilee. For Frenchy, I did create a record using the name and vitals from Find-a-Grave. I oft...

The Supreme Court is looking into the legal status of the homeless. The case, City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, carries enormous stakes nationwide as the conservative justices decide their fate. What is your opinion, and do you think the Soylent Green Snack Company of Linden Utah will receive a windf...

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My mother died on 11 April 2005. I think it was on our first visit to the cemetery after my mother’s passing that my wife and I, driving up the rather steep hill toward my parents’ graves, noticed an elderly man who was toiling painfully up the road. We pulled over and asked him whether he could us...

The last time I expressed my skepticism in these parts regarding the "Dartmouth Connection," I was chided for materializing out of the blue to mock people (in that instance, Randy Bell) and for not keeping an open mind. I thought my emphatic rejection of Nielsen's theory on the other board as "utte...

The last time I expressed my skepticism in these parts regarding the "Dartmouth Connection," I was chided for materializing out of the blue to mock people (in that instance, Randy Bell) and for not keeping an open mind. I thought my emphatic rejection of Nielsen's theory on the other board as "utte...

I know that's going to trigger Kish. But it's true, I'm not persuaded by the "Kircher-Nephi" theory. There is no evidence that John Smith ever read anything by Kircher. And it's not reasonable to assume that he would have. Kircher was hardly mentioned in North American scholarship in Smith's lifeti...

"Whoa there buddy! You've been banned because one or more of your posts violates my feelings and one of our vague and convulted rules. Our community may have enjoyed your posts and given you hundreds of upvotes, but I'm the secret moderator and was put in charge for some unknown reason and my decisi...