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Yes, that is kind of the problem. Joel Send a noteboard - 06/10/2011 12:13:27 AM
I choose to be generous and interpret your subject line to mean "devout Mormons are perfectly sane" rather than a return to "all religious people are nuts." Turn the other cheek, and all that stuff. ;)


Why not interpret is as I said it- the mormon faith is not much crazier than the other mainstream religions. If you say that mainstream christianity is sane, then you don't have much to stand trying to call the mormon faith nuts. You can just as easily interpret that as "devout mormons as perfectly sane" or as "all religious people are nuts". Except that I'm not making statements about people, but about organized religions.


I am not yelling at the Mormons at all. It should be clear that I'm not picking on them specifically.

Either Mormon theology is perfectly rational or all theology is irrational; there is no middle ground. I strongly disagree with that position, whether it reflects a condescending tolerance of Mormonism along with all other religious (and thus crazy, by definition) beliefs or an illogical and untenable assertion that Mormonism is rational despite its multiple, fundamental and serious internal inconsistencies.

We are not talking about a belief system that says implausible or fantastic things, not even one that says black is white, but one that says black is white AND BLACK. Calling that rational is simply incorrect; calling it legitimate because we accept all other religions despite them being equally irrational is incorrect and insulting.
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you are still using it incorrectly. *NM* LadyLorraine - 04/10/2011 02:09:48 PM 566 Views
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I honestly don't know what it would take. Dannymac - 04/10/2011 07:41:55 AM 889 Views
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Woah nelly. Ghavrel - 04/10/2011 10:04:33 AM 924 Views
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oh well that makes it all better... LadyLorraine - 04/10/2011 04:54:14 PM 944 Views
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it's not that we're surprised because it's "novel" LadyLorraine - 04/10/2011 04:19:16 PM 861 Views
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Yeah, circular logic is fun, isn't it? Tom - 05/10/2011 01:09:25 AM 841 Views
It it is nigh impossible to be a "non-Nicene Christian." Joel - 04/10/2011 03:12:06 PM 905 Views
I think we've had this discussion before. Gher - 06/10/2011 05:54:39 PM 892 Views
Arianism is a bad comparison for arguing LDS=Christian. Joel - 06/10/2011 11:45:36 PM 793 Views
Wikipedia confirms what I already thought: you're off base with the monophysitism. Legolas - 07/10/2011 12:06:40 AM 1139 Views
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Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Joel - 08/10/2011 05:30:38 PM 901 Views
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I was just saying there were competing views. Gher - 07/10/2011 07:49:26 PM 1253 Views
Oh, there were definitely competing views, just not competing Christian views. Joel - 07/10/2011 09:26:22 PM 795 Views
That sounds really nice. Vivien - 04/10/2011 06:38:29 PM 857 Views
Why wait though? Joel - 05/10/2011 12:12:21 AM 1046 Views
So that Vivien can avoid reading and thinking about the stuff that you just wrote. *NM* Aeryn - 05/10/2011 12:28:23 AM 483 Views
Ack, not reading and thinking111 Joel - 05/10/2011 12:36:11 AM 880 Views
I really want an answer from a mormon. Vivien - 05/10/2011 08:48:49 PM 893 Views
Good luck with that; just because I can see no explanation save that I offered does not preclude one Joel - 06/10/2011 07:03:50 AM 831 Views
Yeah, that's what I thought. Gher - 06/10/2011 05:43:57 PM 778 Views
I'm satisfied by that explanation. Vivien - 06/10/2011 08:51:15 PM 1013 Views
Re: I'm satisfied by that explanation. Gher - 07/10/2011 07:45:29 PM 881 Views
Oh no you idn't... *waves finger and weaves head* everynametaken - 04/10/2011 03:53:07 AM 716 Views
....i don't know what you look like LadyLorraine - 04/10/2011 03:54:56 AM 857 Views
Shoot, my Mick Jagger strut is way better than my angry hispanic girl head/finger bob and weave. *NM* everynametaken - 05/10/2011 04:58:53 AM 618 Views
Took the words right out of my mouth, repeatedly. Joel - 04/10/2011 12:49:13 PM 1032 Views
Off-Topic Larry - 05/10/2011 01:14:16 AM 836 Views
Hmm Tom - 05/10/2011 02:03:13 AM 985 Views
True Larry - 05/10/2011 02:13:00 AM 783 Views
I think of Protestantism in terms similar to a Xerox copy. Tom - 05/10/2011 04:57:42 AM 898 Views
Maybe Xeroxes of abridged texts and dumbed down theology Larry - 06/10/2011 02:26:58 AM 1015 Views
I like that analogy - an echo chamber! *NM* Tom - 08/10/2011 10:44:04 PM 523 Views
Re: Off-Topic CaptainHammer - 05/10/2011 02:56:50 AM 1008 Views
Uhh... Larry - 05/10/2011 03:08:49 AM 824 Views
The people at the Nicene Council and the other councils were not prophets. CaptainHammer - 05/10/2011 04:59:50 AM 941 Views
And you know that because... why, again? Joel - 05/10/2011 07:13:53 AM 876 Views
Tough Crowd. Dannymac - 03/10/2011 04:44:31 PM 969 Views
No questions. Have a nice day. TaskmasterJack - 03/10/2011 11:40:58 PM 850 Views
Why don't they have anything approaching a formal theology? *NM* Dan - 04/10/2011 03:58:16 AM 610 Views
Re: Why don't they have anything approaching a formal theology? CaptainHammer - 04/10/2011 05:23:12 PM 937 Views
Danny is right, it is a pretty tough crowd, but better tough than weak and whitewashed. everynametaken - 04/10/2011 04:02:16 AM 848 Views
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