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I just did. See above.

This is such a vast oversimplification, and reflects only the desire to distort so as to "attack," that it is a meaningless exercise.

If you want to say "oh, you see the universe differently from me, and I can't accept that," that's fine. I have no problem with it.

But don't go putting out distorted "explanations" of what "Mormons" believe, and then base your conclusion on those distortions. You don't understand our beliefs, because you don't WANT to understand. They threaten you, and so you don't want to hear it.

It's like the young man, a devout Baptist, who wanted to talk to me about how "wrong" I was to believe in the Book of Mormon. On what did he base this? He had just been to a seminar where a Chri$tian preacher told him what my beliefs were.

Then I offered him a Book of Mormon, and said "here, why don't you simply read it for yourself, and find out what it's all about?"

He held up both hands in a "warding off" gesture and said "no, I can't touch that unclean book!"

I mean, give me a break! Since when did Baptists start believing in the "magical power" of inanimate objects? And how can you belittle something you know nothing about, save what someone ELSE has told you about it?

It's just preposterous.

I have NO problem with someone believing differently from me, and even rejecting my beliefs based on what they actually KNOW about them. But it is tiresome to hear the same lies and distortions spouted constantly, and then have those LIES be the basis of judgement. It's intellectually dishonest, as well as vapid.