by Dan Wees | Nov 14, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“What the world calls ‘Mormonism’ will rule every nation. Joseph Smith and Brigham Young will be the head. God has decreed it, and his own right arm will accomplish it.” Orson Hyde, Journal of Discourses – Volume 7 (Liverpool, England: Amasa Lyman,...
by Dan Wees | Nov 14, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“For my money, I’ll bet on reason and humanistic kindness. Even if I am wrong, I will have enjoyed my life, the existence of which is under little dispute.” Dan Barker, Losing Faith in Faith (Madison, WI: Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc., May 2006)....
by Dan Wees | Nov 13, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken by its own merits.” Dan Barker, Losing Faith in Faith (Madison, WI: Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc., May 2006)....
by Dan Wees | Nov 13, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Mormons, of all people, ought to remind themselves that religion is not based primarily on reason or logic. To a professional historian, for example, the recent translation of the Joseph Smith papyri may well represent the potentially most damaging case against...
by Dan Wees | Nov 13, 2018 | Miscellaneous
D I S C U S S I O N O N F A I T H , T R U T H , a n d E V I D E N C E LDS FAITHFUL: Now I know we have been through all this before, but would you honestly do some proper research? Yeah, much of what you say does tell of many of the views that the church...
by Dan Wees | Nov 13, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Faith, is making a virtue of not thinking.” ~Bill...