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Alan wrote:
In article <11vrgaishu87630@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
joschapern4ospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jo Schaper) wrote:
Alan wrote:
Last week, in response to your efforts, the Ohio Board of Education voted
11-4, barring intelligent design from Ohio's classrooms.
Now, Utah's students need your help.
Alan--
Do you understand Utah? If not, you might find out about it.
LMAO. You could say that I do. My step-son is one of them. We haven't seen eye
to eye since I organised my wife's funeral at the church she wanted, and not the
one he wanted. In fact, he doesn't come round here any more, and in the eight
years since she died, he managed to put flowers on her grave just once.
I also know about the "hot-spot". He doesn't. Why would any sane person live in
a state that their own "prophets" say will be destroyed?????
You should check out the Mormon prophesies. ????????
Alan
I tried to read the Book of Mormon once. (I've actually read the Bible
cover to cover, too, tho not in the archaic King James version.) I only
made it about 75 pages into the Book of Mormon before I gave up the
struggle, and this is from someone who has read Russian novels,
unabridged Victor Hugo in translation, 17th century poets, all of
Shakespeare's plays and poems, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and some of the
Canterbury Tales in the original Middle English and is used to wrestling
with obscure texts. I've even read geology journals and found better
prose than the Book of Mormon.
Either people in the 19th Century were much more erudite than I am, or
Joseph Smith (or the Angel Moroni)suddenly become clear if you are a
believer, or it is one of the most opaque religious texts I have ever
encountered.
Mormonism, LDS, RCLDS or whatever you wish to call it just isn't my cup
of tea. Makes my RC cradle religion look positively progressive and
liberal-- I will give them one thing--I've never met an insincere or
lukewarm follower of Smith/Young. Either they are true believers, or
they have shaken its dust from their heels. I am glad there is a Utah,
that the saints are happy there.
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