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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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Ack, not reading and thinking111 Joel - 05/10/2011 12:36:11 AM 1104 Views
I really want an answer from a mormon. Vivien - 05/10/2011 08:48:49 PM 1139 Views
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Yeah, that's what I thought. Gher - 06/10/2011 05:43:57 PM 1060 Views
I'm satisfied by that explanation. Vivien - 06/10/2011 08:51:15 PM 1296 Views
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True Larry - 05/10/2011 02:13:00 AM 1057 Views
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Re: Off-Topic CaptainHammer - 05/10/2011 02:56:50 AM 1284 Views
Uhh... Larry - 05/10/2011 03:08:49 AM 1056 Views
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And you know that because... why, again? Joel - 05/10/2011 07:13:53 AM 1124 Views
Tough Crowd. Dannymac - 03/10/2011 04:44:31 PM 1233 Views
No questions. Have a nice day. TaskmasterJack - 03/10/2011 11:40:58 PM 1076 Views
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Re: Why don't they have anything approaching a formal theology? CaptainHammer - 04/10/2011 05:23:12 PM 1194 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 1116 Views
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