Fence Sitter wrote:Hey, I can't help it if I continue to point out that a pair of deuces is probably a loosing hand, and that there are a whole lot of tables out there with different games, whose participants seem every bit as content as those few sitting at the Mormon table.mentalgymnast wrote:And let's not play the card, again, that God could/should be doing a heck of a lot better job at getting the message out. Unless that's where you, and others, want to go...again. And we should at least look at the possibility that not everyone has to, needs to, wants to, hear the 'big picture' narrative/story in this chapter/phase of existence. There may be many other intertwined twists and plots that make up the sum total of the tale that is being told...and acted out in real time.
Mentalgymnast,
Fence Sitter has a very valid point here, The incontrovertible fact remains that that is a very strong card indeed, to which no one yet has been able to come even slightly close to presenting an effective and reasonable rebuttal. It is no wonder you wish us to avoid playing that card. You realize that you have no chance of beating or trumping it. As I and numerous others have repeatedly pointed out, given the fact that there are so many mutually contradictory and incompatible religious belief systems, even if the LDS Church really were the one true and divinely led church it claims to be, the unreliability of the religious faith approach to discerning truth is still established beyond all reasonable doubt! Arguing otherwise is as foolish as trusting in the reliability of a gun that has never been conclusively or unambiguously proven to have actually hit the target it was aimed at!
I simply cannot believe in, much less worship, a god so foolish and/or uncaring that he could or would not have provided mankind with a more reliable or less ambiguous means of discerning truth about him than that, if he truly cared whether or not we believe in him.