NYcarbineer
Diamond Member
Is there a difference between Magic underpants and wearing a means of execution around your neck?
My own opinion. Not much.
Except that we can't prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Jesus wasn't real. I find the story improbable, and I don't personally believe the mysticism of it. I even speculate that the Jesus story was an amaglamation of other mythical characters that might have gotten tacked onto a real person.
(Philosophically, have no problem with Christianity. Lots of good advice there on how to live your life.)
There's really so such wiggle room with Joseph Smith and Mormonism.
It's a fraud. And worse, it's badly done fraud.
We know that there were no Hebrews in pre-Columbian America.
We know that the Book of Abraham was a 1st century funerary scroll.
We know that their are no Quakers-dressed giants living on the moon like Joseph Smith said.
We know that the Kinderhook tablets were fakes made by Smith's neighbors to punk him.
We know there were no elephants, camels, horses, coins, chariots, towered cities, various grains described or other things that Smith claimed there were in the Nephite nation.
We know why some people have darker skin than others. It's Melatin, not a curse from God.
In short, we know that Mormonism is bullshit, and that anyone who believes in it is either deluded or self-deluded.
So maybe Mitt thinks his underpants are magic, but I'm not going to let him near the nukes.
But this Baptist guy who's knocking Mormonism is a fundamentalist Christian who thinks, correct me if I'm wrong, that everything in the Bible is divinely inspired and therefore the absolute truth.
It's like when I was a little kid and I thought I was really smart because I'd figured out that Santa Claus didn't really come down the chimney like your parents said,
he went in and out the front door like everyone else did.