Moroni

[Tom Joad]

I've been reading the Catholic Encyclopedia...interesting stuff.

Check this out about the Mormon Angel Moroni.

From http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10570c.htm
According to his own statement, there appeared to him on the night of 21 September, 1823, a heavenly messenger, who gave his name as Moroni, and revealed the existence of an ancient record containing the fullness of the Gospel of Christ as taught by the Saviour after his Resurrection to the Nephites, a branch of the House of Israel which inhabited the American continent ages prior to its discovery by Columbus. Moroni in mortal life had been a Nephite prophet, the son of another prophet named Mormon, who was the compiler of the record buried in a hill situated about two miles from the modern village of Manchester.

[hannitykillspuppies]

I've been reading the Catholic Encyclopedia...interesting stuff.

Check this out about the Mormon Angel Moroni.

From http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10570c.htm
did you read about the magic mormon underpants?

[Tom Joad]

did you read about the magic mormon underpants?

I haven't read anything but, I have heard things about them.

[hannitykillspuppies]

I haven't read anything but, I have heard things about them.
it's the dumbest thing i've ever heard of.

[Tom Joad]

it's the dumbest thing i've ever heard of.

It probably doesn't make my top 10. Baptizing the dead non-Mormons as Mormons is probably more ridiculous.

[hannitykillspuppies]

It probably doesn't make my top 10. Baptizing the dead non-Mormons as Mormons is probably more ridiculous.that is definitely dumber.

[Tom Joad]

that is definitely dumber.

Mormon kids do that at Mormon Summer Bible Camp. Seriously.

[swordfish]

Where do they get the corpses?

Loot first then burn.

[Tom Joad]

Where do they get the corpses?

Loot first then burn.

They get lists of the recently departed and then say their names in a specific prayer for the Baptism.

[Hotpapa666]

it's the dumbest thing i've ever heard of.

oh really?

How about, Jesus being the savior. Evidence, he cured one blind guy. Not blindness for all of humanity, one guy. Wow, that's the kind of huge, world changing event to hang your hat on.

How about. How about, tithing is 10% of the money that you earn. Not 10% of net, 10% of gross, because that's what the church needs....


How about, flat out beleiving there is much value in reading 2,000+ year old parables for leasons on how to live a life...

Thw whole idea of god, and religion is laughable, dumb, use whichever adjective you like.

[Bang]

How about, flat out beleiving there is much value in reading 2,000+ year old parables for leasons on how to live a life...

Thw whole idea of god, and religion is laughable, dumb, use whichever adjective you like.

Its so dumb and laughable, that every culture is defined by its beliefs and they play a major role in their continued existance. And to the vast extent the system of beliefs is what defines a culture. Lets see what culture exists without religion. There was Communism, which lasted about 80 years, then I'm fresh out of examples.

Granted the commies met their match in Pope JP2, who was a formidable adversary.

[Ed Who?]

How about, flat out beleiving there is much value in reading 2,000+ year old parables for leasons on how to live a life...

Thw whole idea of god, and religion is laughable, dumb, use whichever adjective you like.

Much more laughable is the fact you wasted time posting about something you find laughable and dumb.

[Hotpapa666]

Its so dumb and laughable, that every culture is defined by its beliefs and they play a major role in their continued existance. And to the vast extent the system of beliefs is what defines a culture. Lets see what culture exists without religion. There was Communism, which lasted about 80 years, then I'm fresh out of examples.

Granted the commies met their match in Pope JP2, who was a formidable adversary.

Just because people have existed as "Faithful" for the extent of recorded history doesn't make them being "Faithful" correct. For a very very long time people believed that the Earth was the center of the Universe. Another person who met his match in a Pope was Galileo, yet was that Pope correct? No.

Faith in Christianity will die as did faith Zeus. Hopefully another Faith won't step in and convince people that there is a ghost in the sky who knows how many hairs are on their heads and kills babies in floods.

[Bang]

Just because people have existed as "Faithful" for the extent of recorded history doesn't make them being "Faithful" correct. For a very very long time people believed that the Earth was the center of the Universe. Another person who met his match in a Pope was Galileo, yet was that Pope correct? No.

Faith in Christianity will die as did faith Zeus. Hopefully another Faith won't step in and convince people that there is a ghost in the sky who knows how many hairs are on their heads and kills babies in floods.

Hopefully faith will guide researchers to have a compass so they know what to do with what they discover.

[LSU]

Hopefully faith will guide researchers to have a compass so they know what to do with what they discover.


Researchers already have that...an ethical code. Of course, in some ways, it's unwritten, so that can be a problem. In other ways, it is written in law.

But, just like anything else, any researcher that wants to can buck the code...just like anyone operating under any other code.