Tuesday, August 6, 2013

How Dumb Conservatives Are Is Getting Embarrassing


How wrong they are, too - it never ends:

After all last year, when Republicans were trying to elect Mitt Romney and screaming how everyone who questions Mormonism is a "bigot" (Thank you Glenn Reynolds, Ann Althouse, and all the rest of you assholes) now we find Mormon leaders are leaving - the big wigs in the cult - because (I love it) they read online it was bullshit. They're even questioning it, openly, themselves:
Instead of answering the questions about how the Book of Mormon was translated VS. revealed and why Smith had to use a hat, they present the Book of Mormon as proof for, you guessed it, the Book of Mormon. Jensen admittedly bases his life on a feeling. Turley quickly adds that there are some historical things about the Book of Mormon, but fails to offer any examples of historical proof. 
Folks, this is dangerous. My wife and I once talked to a Mormon who taught history at one of the local universities here in San Antonio. We asked her if she taught her classes to investigate history the same way that her Church tells her to find truth. When she admitted that she didn’t, I expressed my concern over using a method for testing the truthfulness of the most important part of her life when she doesn’t trust that very same method for secular history. It simply doesn’t make any sense to pray about the historicity of an event and take that “answered prayer” as a reason for belief. If there are historical proofs for the Book of Mormon, then present them. Whether or not the Book of Mormonism is from God is another issue, but if the book cannot even be proven to be a work from antiquity, then it does not deserve our faith. An objective faith needs just that, an object. With the Bible we have literally thousands of manuscripts as evidence. Not so with the Book of Mormon. All we have there are golden plates that cannot be seen. We are just supposed to take the word of a man whose face was in a hat and who didn’t even use the supposed golden plates in the “translation” process.

I'll say "Amen" to that. 

I'll also say I don't expect any apologies for the stupid way Republicans tortured my black ass for being ahead of the curve - again.


So don't expect any from me either:

For always being smarter than Glenn Reynolds, Ann Althouse, and all the rest,...

1 comment:

  1. Romney is gone away.

    But they are all ready to foist Kris Kristiekreme on us.

    Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...

    Oh wait there is only this Boss...

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