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Gadianton wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 15, 2023 4:27 pm

Philo wrote:It's too bad all their covering up of sex abused children mars this supposed contribution.....

Seems to me this is part of the cover-up. Rather than fix their own problem, throw a few bucks as a diversion at somebody else's problem.

Always the pessimists/conspiracy theorists.

Regards,
MG

Brian Hales has been quoted a number of times in this thread. His approach to footnotes has always irritated me, because of his propensity to engage in the typical mopologetic technique-- the technique of misusing footnotes to mislead. Here is one that popped up recently: "Creative dictation is mor...

Lol. You are too funny. *snip This is your fourth time now simply cut and pasting THE SAME POST and wasting our time. And you ignored some relevant questions. They were in blue in case you missed them. Are you going to cut and paste a fifth time? (banging my head wondering why I humor this person…)...

“We have Joseph the farmboy producing a work that has gone on to becoming a recognized book of scripture” Nope. You have Joseph the imaginative story teller and Oliver the well educated school teacher, with some contemporary reference materials (including the KJV of the Bible) producing a work of 1...

*snip whole post Have you no shame? 80-90% of your responses to me are large volume cut and pastes. For being such a smart person (you do work in the academy from what I seem to remember) you sure do some dumb things. Any substantive original response to the post made upthread to PG? https://discus...

Yeah. So there you have it. Yay. Substantiative paragraph. He’s got his opinion, like I said. Thanks for reposting this. Definitely impacts my views on what is presented by Hardy, Hales, and others. 🤭🧐🙂 Regards, MG And again, you truncated a post without indicating that you did so. And I just did i...

...From what I’ve read on this topic over the years my opinion is simply that you’re giving Joseph Smith too much credit for doing something that would have been beyond his reach. You’ve asked me to go through Grant Hardy’s book and spoon feed selections and ‘proofs’ that had meaning to me and yet ...

Please let me respond closer to the way I should have, as I try push the evil Morley partially to the rear. What I’m getting at is that the ‘larger picture’ is not unimportant. It’s back to the Monet paintings analogy I’ve used before. Looking at the individual blotches of paint may distract from t...

I think it may be a bit more nuanced than you’re making it out to be. You’re making out a lot of good Christian people in our world that have had to make hard choices into something other than what they are. Christian. Playing holier than thou, are we? Regards, MG It’s very simple, anyone that make...

The LDS Church has launched a global health and nutrition initiative to improve the health and development of children under five and their mothers: https://www.heraldextra.com/faith-2/2023/nov/09/church-of-jesus-christ-launches-global-nutrition-and-health-initiative/ The church has grown in its ab...