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In an article at Mormon Times found here: m We read this: Another complication of tracking the gene pool deals with the Indians when the Euporean explorers arrived. In addition to guns and steel, they also brought disease that wiped out about 95 percent of the population, subsequently narrowing and...

I think I am slowly starting to get this. Here's a question I can anticipate from the critics: If the majority of the stuff to the south was originally penned by Spalding and constitutes the best reconstruction we can produce of Manuscript Found , why aren't the principle heroes in those sections n...

The seven pages of the thread on this at MADB essentially boils down to this: one so-called prophecy in the last 12 years, in which the speaker (GBH) explicitly stated he was NOT prophesying, and which constituted generic financial advice that is often repeated in church (and, incidentally, from fin...

For years, my IP address was banned over at MADB, but I've been able to get in over there the last couple days (must be a miracle sent from the FSM himself), so forgive me if I am sharing too much of the hilarity I am discovering over there; it's been so long since I visited Bedlam. From Ahab: Most ...

The review could have been so much shorter. It basically says: "This book is a pseudo-scientific piece of sh*t that relies on folk tales, debunked claims, opinions and good feelings to advance an entirely untenable geography for the Book of Mormon." A criticism equally applicable to "...

From the article: Critics look for the oddities, the weird things, the things that just don't make any sense. Such as...resurrected angels that appear to show where "golden plates" are hidden like treasure in some hillside? Only to later "disappear" the self same plates for obsc...

I think GC went downhill when David Haight died. That old codger must have scared the sh*t out of the guys on the stand. They never knew what he was gonna ramble on about. I used to be one of those who would wax rhapsodic on how edified I was by conference. I think I may have actually believed it, t...

I left the church over the "garb" criticism. Oh noes! How do I get re-baptized? Ricockulous.

The thread on P0rnography is providing some gems. This one is from asbestosman on the horrors of Sports Illustrated. What will be the next target of his opprobrium, the JC Penney catalog?: From a religious standpoint it is wrong to arouse yourself or others (except your spouse). This covers Swimsuit...

Simon Belmont wrote:In addition, many other racists were always allowed the priesthood.

On this great long thread, this was the only statement from Simon that I could agree with. Indeed, the church allowed many racists to hold the priesthood: Brigham Young, Mark E. Peterson, Harold B. Lee, Ezra Taft Benson...