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Also, we already know that translations can alter meanings. Excellent point. God could have been saying "Tapirs of unusual size" and it may have been translated as horses. Same way with steel and chariots, let alone mistaking spacecraft that could land on the Delmarva Peninsula as ocean-going ships.

Imwashingmypirate wrote: ↑

Sun May 12, 2024 8:22 am

Aww is there more?

Much more courtesy of The Project Gutenberg:

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/51 ... mages.html

The creation story in the Finnish Kalevala is much more creative and has a fun rhyming meter. In primeval times, a maiden, Beauteous Daughter of the Ether, Passed for ages her existence In the great expanse of heaven, O'er the prairies yet enfolded. Wearisome the maiden growing, Her existence sad an...

Res Ipsa wrote: ↑

Sat May 11, 2024 3:05 pm

I’m not playing whack-a-mole grievance theater today.

The only requirement to be an efficient mole in this game is to be an election denier.

Why not balance it out by also including a story of a non-Mormon lawyer (or comparable professional) and amateur archeologist or even a non-Mormon professional archeologist, who worked in Mesoamerica and made connections different from Ferguson, and came to believe the Book of Mormon is an ancient ...

Louise Midgley has long attacked Fawn Brodie's book on Jefferson. Try to discredit both her writing on Joseph Smith and Thomas Jefferson. Midgley knowing Fawn Brodie was right about Jefferson meant she was right about Smith, but Richard Bushman already admitted that Brodie was correct. Midgley was ...

ajax18 wrote: ↑

Fri May 10, 2024 11:11 pm

They don't care about juror safety.

Prosecutors wished to prevent juror intimidation and death threats from Trump supporters.

Except for Joseph Smith, Dr. Daniel Peterson, and Russell M. Nelson, DNA will show that all others are descended from Pre-Adamites. Chad Daybell, Lori Vallow, Ruby Franke, and Jodi Hildebrant are probably 90% pure Mormon Adamites. Just a guess, but Calm and Juliann are probably 60% Adamite, while th...

With powerful forearms, Neanderthal Elders can be very helpful in quelling any future Heaven Rebellions when Trump's base starts goosestepping around demanding that Trump be put in charge.

drumdude wrote: ↑

Thu May 09, 2024 1:00 pm

Your view is it’s not a fraud because it’s a religion?

Not a fraud if strict obedience to Church leaders gets you into the highest echelons of Heaven and enables you to become a God.