From: "Blaine Borrowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You see everything through dark glasses, Perry, sorry I can't help you Blaine
Is it possible that the reason that it appears that I see everything (everything LDS) through dark glasses is I am looking at dark things?
Is it possible that since I have no vested interest in being a Mormon that I am seeing things realistically, and you, who has a vested interest in making Morminsm fit, must try to make weak arguments into strong ones?
Blaine, you need to be realistic, now. There is no proof that the book of Mormon is true. Not one shred. There are "possible" connections to the real world, which are quite weak and to me appear to be a stretch, but no real proof. Not archeological, not historical. I am afraid that there is no way I could put any faith at all in a religion based on book that has absolutely no proof whatsoever that any of it is true.
Add the questionable background of it's author (JS), the plaigerisms from the Bible, the existence of manuscripts in the right time frame and subject matter to have used as a basis for the plot of the BoM, the fact that JS used a "peep stone" for divining for buried treasure and used the same method for purportedly translating the BoM, and last but not least, not having the plates from which it waspurportedly translated, and this menas the LDS are on shakey spiritual ground, Blaine.
Perry
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