Re: virus: Virus: Opinions?

Johnny Rea (matziq@airmail.net)
Tue, 16 Jun 1998 12:01:25 -0500

Well, you have to ask yourself is our only senses what we see, hear, smell,
taste, and touch? Or is there other ways of finding truth? We have
determined
that personal revelation is a sort of sixth sense.
>From an early age, all Mormons are urged to read the Book of Mormon and
determine for themselves if they BELIEVE it is true. They are asked to pray
about it AND get an answer!!! I know you will never do it but if you would
just
read the Book of Mormon cover to cover and then go back to Moroni 10:4 and
do as it says you will find out for yourself the truth.

If you've ever cracked open a Book of Mormon you will find the testimony of
the three witnesses and other witness accounts. Do eye witnesses have
any weight when determining truth?

-----Original Message-----
From: sodom <Sodom@ma.ultranet.com>
To: virus@lucifer.com <virus@lucifer.com>
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: virus: Virus: Opinions?

>Actually, there is more to it than that. It is about "why" you believe.
>The question is to me: Is there just cause to believe that the book of
>Mormon is true? For me, belief is never an issue, just a continuuing
>scale of more likely less likely. Are you a believing Mormon because the
>evidence lends itself to that conclusion based upon objective,
>observable facts - or - Have you been told the same thing your entire
>life, and is it now so hard wired into your brain that you have no
>choice but to believe, and couldn't leave the church no matter how badly
>you wanted. This would make you an unknowing slave of makebelieve. If
>you are willing to stand upon proven fraud, and claim it's reality, then
>almost everything you do and say is subject to the "religious filter" I
>have set up in my head. Everything you say will need to be pruned of
>failed logic first before I can actuially consider what you are saying.
>I would rather not have to do that as I do with most of society.
>
>Sodom
>P.S. If it makes you feel any better, ill bet there were not any
>Atheists participationg in the Mormon bashing when you were young, we
>usually find more appropiate places for religious objection.
>
>Johnny Rea wrote:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: C.A. Cook <coreycook12@email.msn.com>
>> To: virus@lucifer.com <virus@lucifer.com>
>> Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 1:03 AM
>> Subject: Re: virus: Virus: Opinions?
>>
>> Sorry, dude. It is literature. Some people say is is more,
>> others less. THAT doesn't make it more or less.
>>
>> CA Cook, LF
>> coreycook12@email.msn.com
>>
>> PS I hope you don't get offended. All too many of the
>> religious fundies that wander in here stomp out in a
>> snit. Just try to keep your head on straight, and be
>> friendly. Or not. Whatever you want.
>>
>> I am not offended in the least. I would like to know how you came
>> to the conclusion that the Book of Mormon is a work of literature,
>> though. Or you saying that Joseph Smith made up the Book of Mormon
>> as a work of fiction? If that is what you are saying then I can only
>> tell you that is not what Mormons believe and we can move on.
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