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To: Timaeus
Dear Timaeus,

I don't know much, but it's clear that I knew more about this than you. Five minutes of googling verified my hazy understanding of the “Melchizedek priesthood” (it's not all that an "exclusive elite" - practically all church-going adult male Mormons hold the "Melchizedek priesthood") and the role of the “bishop” in the LDS church (it's not a "senior cleric," in fact, it's one of the lower levels of office in the LDS church). Which was far from your wildly inaccurate assertions.

“Do you teach at a junior college or something?”

LOL! Good one! No, I haven't taught anywhere in years, although the first time through graduate school, I did teach a few sections of labs to undergrads at my university.


sitetest

329 posted on 02/03/2012 11:54:12 AM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: sitetest
I don't know much, but it's clear that I knew more about this than you.
This is precisely what you have failed to establish. I wrote "senior cleric". You confirmed "cleric" but took issue with "senior" even as you quoted to me a text that calls the M. priesthood the higher of the two whatever priesthoods. You're a perfect case of how some sub-literates confuse search engine returns with knowledge. This was precisely Socrates' critique of the written word in Pato's Phaedrus, that it could make "fools appear wise"--well, in some cases. Not yours.

Graduate school? Let me guess. You have an MFA. Or a humanities degree.
330 posted on 02/03/2012 12:17:36 PM PST by Timaeus (Willard Mitt Romney Delenda Est)
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