Well, give it another 1000 years. By then, I’m sure that Mormons will be able to say that the whole Book of mormon is allegorical and metaphorical, just like the bible. I mean, you can be a good Christian even if you don’t believe that Adam and Eve wre real people, or that there was really a Biblical Flood, or that any of those miracles described in the Bible really happened. Eventually, you’ll be able to be a good Mormon even if you don’t believe that descendants of the lost tribes of Israel REALLY came to the American continent.
Of COURSE the Book of Mormon is a fabrication. So is the Bible. So what? Why should the fact that people believed the bible was true longer than people believed the Book of mormon is true have anything to do with anything?
And just how sure are you that the Bible is “fairly accurate in describing various cultures, and really existing people and places,” anyway?
It’s all a crock, and nothing is funnier than people who believe in one crock deriding people who believe in another crock because their religion is “obviously” a fabrication.
I I’m not mistaken, that was the whole point of the South Park episode.
“I never did anything to you except try to be your friend. But you could not look past my religion and just be my friend back. You have a lot of growing up to do, Stan.”
What show was it where the cartoonist showed a bunch of weird Christmas shows, including a Kathy lee Gifford singing and scaring mice, and then the cartoon Jesus looks at a tv and sees the Linus explainign Christmas and goe soff dancing.?
Nice to see you, IWLN:) I think you missed my point. I am giving you a break. My point is, why shouldn’t the Mormons get the same break you get? And that’s a rhetorical question, of course, because I’m sure you personally would give them a break. My gripe is with certain people in this thread who seem to want to subject Mormons to a higher standard of objectivity than their own personal favorite denomination.
I’ve hung out in enough churches to know that the idea of the bread and wine being the true body of Christ is a much a part of Catholic doctrine as the story of the Golden Plates is a part of Mormon doctrine. I don’t think you are foolish for belonging to a religion that espouses the former, so I don’t get how one would think Mormons foolish for belonging to a religion that espouses the latter.
And again I find myself in agreement with Barry: just because the claims in the Bible are “older” and therefore supposedly less easily disproved, that does not make them more plausible in the least. I find Zeus and Harry Potter equally implausible, even though the accounts of either are seperated by thousands of years.
Diogenes, if you’re right, I’m darn sorry I missed that!
Did you see the Smigel SNL parody of Charlie Brown’s Christmas where the kids found that they could change anything for the better by crowding around it waving their arms (as with the C’mas tree)? One result- Peppermint Patty & Marcie were transformed into hot lesbians in bikinis making out.
