Re: virus: Virus: Opinions?

John Rea (matziq@airmail.net)
Wed, 17 Jun 1998 13:23:48 -0500

The reasons the historicity of the B of M is being proved is
not because the B of M is about things that were known in
the time it was written. For example, the people and culture
of ancient mesoamerica were not studied and many of the
ancient cities were not yet uncovered when the Book of Mormon
was written...yet the B of M describes these civilizations in
detail. So its not like I am saying "Mary Had A Little Lamb"
is the story of a real girl name mary with a lamb...its more like
if a Klingon Bird of Prey landed on the whitehouse lawn and
Klingon warriors stepped off and demanded to speak with Clinton.
Then I would say "gee....star trek is a TRUE STORY!"
You see, the B of M describes the culture of ancient america
LONG BEFORE ANYTHING WAS KNOWN ABOUT THIS
CULTURE!

Get my point now?

-----Original Message-----
From: B. Lane Robertson <metaphy@hotmail.com>
To: virus@lucifer.com <virus@lucifer.com>
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: virus: Virus: Opinions?

I would suggest the religious fanaticist go beyond
the B of M and try to answer what the book says
about what came before or after the book... what is
suggested between the lines (such as WHY a son of
God, or WHAT kind of "god"). In this way, he would
be on a more even level with the comments made
"against" him. While it is true that the words of a
book (any book) can be used to back up the book--
and always "faithfully" reproduce what the book says
(and this might seem some sort of "proof" that the
words of the book are proof of the words of the
book)-- anyone would have trouble breaking an
adherent from talking in circles if this adherent
could get nothing more from the book than a
statement that others should "read the book".

For example: Mary had a little lamb. This is
obvious from the story "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
because it says so in the book. If Mary had not had
a little lamb there would be no book called "Mary
Had a Little Lamb" thus it is obvious that "its
fleece was white as snow" because otherwise it would
not be Mary's Lamb (this is the type of "logic" that
religious adherents espouse). Some counter logic
would be in questions like "Is there a person called
Mary?, "Do lambs have fleece as white as snow", "Who
wrote this story", "Why did they write this
story"... such questions cannot be answered by
referring to the words of the story!

B. Lane Robertson
Indiana, USA
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