I Don't Think This Guy Knows What Reality Is!

Liberal Mormon · **Posted:** Mon Jan 16, 2012 3:16 am

Talk about lameass apologestics in the worst degree!

http://ldsmag.com/church/article/9191?ac=1

Quote:

Mormonism is a tactile religion as much as a spiritual one. Its history records real gold plates that many witnesses hefted and examined, deities with tangible bodies of flesh and bone, and angels that would rather reach out and shake our hand than wax mysterious in sermon. The urim and thummim, seer stones, Egyptian mummies, ancient papyri, and other physical artifacts rivet the Mormon mind to the reality of it all. Reality is a word that sums up the object of our religious quest

ROTFLMAO

leftofcentre · **Posted:** Mon Jan 16, 2012 12:41 pm

Liberal Mormon wrote:

Talk about lameass apologestics in the worst degree!

http://ldsmag.com/church/article/9191?ac=1

Quote:

Mormonism is a tactile religion as much as a spiritual one. Its history records real gold plates that many witnesses hefted and examined, deities with tangible bodies of flesh and bone, and angels that would rather reach out and shake our hand than wax mysterious in sermon. The urim and thummim, seer stones, Egyptian mummies, ancient papyri, and other physical artifacts rivet the Mormon mind to the reality of it all. Reality is a word that sums up the object of our religious quest

Angels aren't supposed to shake your hands...if they do, they're actually from SATAN!! :twisted:

leftofcentre · **Posted:** Mon Jan 16, 2012 12:48 pm

leftofcentre wrote:

Liberal Mormon wrote:

Talk about lameass apologestics in the worst degree!

http://ldsmag.com/church/article/9191?ac=1

Quote:

Mormonism is a tactile religion as much as a spiritual one. Its history records real gold plates that many witnesses hefted and examined, deities with tangible bodies of flesh and bone, and angels that would rather reach out and shake our hand than wax mysterious in sermon. The urim and thummim, seer stones, Egyptian mummies, ancient papyri, and other physical artifacts rivet the Mormon mind to the reality of it all. Reality is a word that sums up the object of our religious quest

Angels aren't supposed to shake your hands...if they do, they're actually from SATAN!! :twisted:

ooh, maybe I got that wrong. Maybe my post needs to go into the 'Uncanonized Doctrine' thread - that's just what I was taught.

Questions... · **Joined:** Tue Nov 27, 2007 1:36 pm **Posts:** 86

Well, there actually is something interesting here.

One of the things that actually attracted me to Mormonism to begin with was its "materialistic" bent. See, for example, the idea that "spirit" is the same substance as "matter" only more pure or refined. Definitely an intriguing concept.

But when you actually dig into the actual physical claims of the LDS Church, the whole house of cards collapses. For better or worse, they did put themselves out there, with physical, empirical claims about actual objects and history. And we all know where that road leads....

cumom · **Joined:** Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:17 am **Posts:** 7341

I love this piece, because I'm teaching a lecture on how religion creates different senses of "reality" within adherents, so I"ll be assigning this to my students to read as a primary source example of this phenomenon!

LOL

ruoutthere · **Posted:** Thu Jan 19, 2012 8:35 pm

cumom wrote:

I love this piece, because I'm teaching a lecture on how religion creates different senses of "reality" within adherents, so I"ll be assigning this to my students to read as a primary source example of this phenomenon!

LOL

HA! That's so awesome Cumom!

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