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Do you accept everything David Koresh did as genuine because he slapped "religion" on it? Of course not. It is just as fallacious to give Joseph Smith a pass on everything he claimed in the name of religion as genuine. His entire life is marred by conduct that points to him being a charlatan. For C...

I found Bradley's presentation interesting, but unpersuasive in the face of so much evidence of Joseph Smith's behavior that undercuts claims of genuineness of Smith's "belief" in polygamy. There is much in the Old Testament that Smith did not glom onto. He cherry picked from the Old Testament to c...

I found Bradley's presentation interesting, but unpersuasive in the face of so much evidence of Joseph Smith's behavior that undercuts claims of genuineness of Smith's "belief" in polygamy. There is much in the Old Testament that Smith did not glom onto. He cherry picked from the Old Testament to co...

"Polygamy" was Joseph Smith's theme to get more flesh. The prisoners were just more honest about steak being the way for them to get more flesh. From my study of Smith's escapades beyond Emma, I do not think he is any more genuine in claiming such were a genuine religious belief than the prisoners ...

There are limits to freedom of religion and sometimes it is used to justify wrongful and hurtful conduct like polygamy. There is an interesting line of prisoner cases where prisoners tried to use freedom of religion to get certain privileges. My favorite was the church of steak where prisoners clai...

Or he justified it by recognizing the hypocrisy of a nation with a Constitution guaranteeing freedom of religion forcing him and his co-religionists into this corner. There are limits to freedom of religion and sometimes it is used to justify wrongful and hurtful conduct like polygamy. There is an ...

Maybe Milton saw, with his spiritual eyes, that in the not too distant future, Nikola would have that battery system and would soon have the designed tech and making the vehicle components.

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Mon Sep 28, 2020 10:58 am

I doubt that Elder Gong subscribes to any of President Oaks' hateful ideas when it comes to his son.

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Mon Sep 28, 2020 2:10 pm

He does by association.

Gerritt also sustains Dallin as a prophet, seer and revelator, and as a counselor in the First Presidency. That's a bit stronger than just 'by association.'

God works in mysterious ways, and gets stranger and stranger as science gets better and better at explaining things.

Peterson is now 'plaigerizing' himself?