Posted on 05/27/2010 6:44:33 AM PDT by Colofornian
I appreciate your concern, but my word choice was deliberate.
Intent is revealed through posting history. Continually misrepresenting facts and withholding truth is lying.
Theological discussion is open to interpretation, documented historical acts are not. Posting half-truths with the intent to invoke an emotional response rather than rational though is dishonest, and it is continually practiced on these threads.
Source? I already posted a source that states this isn’t true. Maybe three decades ago, but not in 2010.
Still trying to figure out why a mere posting of FACT caused you so much angst?
If you are lonely, buy a dog....
Please point out where I said anything bad about Christians?
Biased? Bigoted?
Obviously, the voices inside your head do not represent the views of your own mind.
Since you will not comply, leave the thread.
You as well feel the Mormon apology “insincere?” “Spin control?” Inadequate?”
Maybe I missed it, but can you provide a link to this “Mormon apology?”
All things Mormon are “insincere” “spin control” “inadequate”...
All scams work that way.
Comes from that Charlatan thing you so correctly pointed out for us...
Why this concept is difficult to understand I do not know.
Eyring was careful to place responsibility with local LDS civic and religious leaders, rather than with Brigham Young or the LDS Church. Some, including Fancher Party descendants and historian Will Bagley, did not see this as an apology. Church spokesman Mark Tuttle agreed, saying “We don’t use the word ‘apology.’ We used ‘profound regret.’
See #31.
Its unforntunate that the Deseret News did not interview any of the “hundreds” of descendants of the victims who were there...
Do not ping someone who has been instructed to leave the thread.
Sorry I didnt realize that at the time..
So where is the documentation and the proofs? Fact of the matter is mesoamerican history has been studed, explored and evaluated in great detail - yet not one undisputed piece of evidence of hebraic/egyptian culture has been found - nada, zero, zip. The fact is that the LGT area as progressively gotten smaller and smaller over time why - because these 'tantalizing' traces are only figments of the imagination and have not borne fruit under critical scientific study. Furthermore, this is not a single disciplinary study - but multi-disciplinary encompassing dna, anthropology, archaeology, linguistic, paleontology and geology just to name a few. So your statement that we still know 'very little' is no longer valid. There have been no cultures with advanced metallurgy, horses, old world crops, chariots (and other wheeled carts), concrete etc found - period.
For example, there are various schools of thoughts on when and where the hemisphere was first inhabited, ranging all over the map and from 7-25,000 years
You apparently are not familar with the bom story - most of which is focused on 350 BC - 600 AD.
ain't no pal of Joseph Smith, but I am definitely cutting Old Joe all possible slack on this particular subject ... and wish all of my Mormon friends debating the various controversies good luck and thanks for looking in to it.
There is no slack to 'cut'. Joseph smith claimed that the amerindians of his day were descendants of the hebrew party that arrived in the americas 350 bc. This has been shown to be false. Since smith 'made up' the story (lied), the rest of his 'revelations' are at best highly questionable and should cause all mormons to stop and think.
Shot yourself in the foot.
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