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Last nite I went to the movies for the first time in a couple years. My daughter and I went to see Indy Jones. She has become indoctrinated into the Lds organization via her mom. She showed me this big back lit poster they have for coming attractions promoting a new movie on the life of Emma Smith. ...

Is there no greater national media applicability to the scriptural phrase of "white and delightsome" than to its application to the crowd at Energy Solution Center in SLC??!!! My son and I are watching the Jazz-Laker game at our local watering hole tonight and he says: "Dad, there is ...

Oh the irony. I have been reading all the persecution complex statements at MAD about how Romney was not accepted as a viable presidential candidate simply because he was a Mormon and people could not accept his religious beliefs. How outrageous it is to judge him simply because he was a Mormon. Per...

Hi beastie, I just wanted to add to something that you said because Moniker seems to be interested in details right now. This is why the Nauvoo Expositor was such a big deal, it was going to blow the lid off the secret and tell the general membership of the church. Joseph and the other leaders had ...

I think this guy Yme hit the nail on the head with the following: "I now see how individuals and/or an entire faith based organization can create such non-sensical, self limiting, subjective, and isolating criteria for its evaluation, so that it will be free from any standards of comparison or ...

.."unevidenced assertion" [?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?] Wow, for a minute there I thought you were referring to all the work FARMS has done on Book of Mormon "historicity"!! No, wait, that would be more accurately, as you have stated, an "ignored assertion". At least by...

Can we get back on topic? Where has anything that John Clark, or anyone at FARMS, published with respect to the historicity of the Book of Mormon [and they have written/published a lot] received even a passing glance from their peer group in the professional community??? I remember that Peterson wou...

Seems to me now that since the FARMS proclaimed "well known and respected" BYU archaeologist John Clark came out with the BYU article in may of 2004: "that only archaeology will prove the Book of Mormon correct" it has been three years. So what has happened since???? I had tried ...