charity wrote:C'mon, Trevor. You sound like you have some knowledge of shclarly matters. Don't pretend that you don't understand the basic difference between the Book of Mormon, and the Books of Abraham and Moses. Any other religious booik has a secular history which can be easily separated from its "religiosity."
Anyone who listens to the anyone speak on any religious material produced by Joseph Smith (however he did it) has to accept angels. It takes the truly mature individual to do that and not feel threatened. Not too many of those around.
The Book of Mormon has a secular history which can be easily separated from its religiosity too. You simply don't accept it. Other do, and these people do take scholarly interest in the Book of Mormon, as I have mentioned before. They do not have to believe in angels to take an interest in the founding documents of Mormonism. To state otherwise is to speak absurdly.
Whatever you meant in your initial statement, which, taken on its own, remains one of the silliest things I have seen posted here, you have not done much to regain ground in this follow-up. One does not have to believe in angels to take scholarly interest in Mormon texts, period.
Without any malice, charity, I encourage you to take a step back and reconsider what you are saying.
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