Saturday, 8 September 2018

The Church of Milquetoast

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Anyone with even a passing familiarity with Mormonism knows that the LDS Church claims to be led by direct revelation by the good Lord H...
Saturday, 25 August 2018

Alma's Theory of Knowledge

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Once the decision was made to serve the mission, I took my preparation terribly seriously. I completed 4 years of seminary, read the Bible...
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Thursday, 2 August 2018

Zeus’s Thunderbolt, Euthyphro’s Dilemma, and the Eliminative Reduction of Sin

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Sin is to morality as Zeus’s thunderbolt is to weather. [i] That is, Zeus’s thunderbolts do not exist and therefore contrib...
Tuesday, 13 February 2018

Snowblind

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Some years ago, the kids and I were returning from a Def Leppard concert in a nearby city. It was late at night and the kids were fast asle...
Wednesday, 13 December 2017

The LDS Proselytizing Mission as Hazing

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Presumably, we have all heard the notion that one of the primary purposes (if not the primary purpose) of the LDS proselytizing mission,...
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Thursday, 19 October 2017

Abinadi: The Homer Simpson of the Book of Mormon

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Let me set the scene for you. Poor Homer, looking for a way to boost his self-esteem, wanders into an adult education facility and gets...
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Wednesday, 27 September 2017

The Dunning-Kruger Effect and Missionary Age

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“the trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt" --Bertrand Russell While wat...
Monday, 11 September 2017

What does the statement "The (LDS) Church is true" even mean...?

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“The Church is true” is a statement I learned to make as a child; I learned to repeat the phrase mechanically before I had the cognitive whe...
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Tuesday, 29 August 2017

An LDS “Epistemology” of Apostasy

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  Our faithful LDS friends and family have tremendous difficulty accepting that there can be any legitimate reason for leaving the Church. I...
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Wednesday, 23 August 2017

Satan: MVP of the Plan of Salvation

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The gathered righteous erupt into a reverent silence as the good Lord Himself, even Jesus Christ, takes the podium, shuffles his notes, ta...
Tuesday, 25 July 2017

CTR Rings: The Embodiment of a Misguided Categorical Imperative

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CTR Rings: The Embodiment of a Misguided Categorical Imperative In this piece I intend to critique the LDS concept of CTR (Choose the Righ...
Monday, 7 November 2016

The Parable of the Broken Clock Maker

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The old clock maker loved his clocks as much as any father could possibly love his children. Each was formed in his heart before being ...
Wednesday, 5 October 2016

Laundry List of Issues Regarding Moroni's Promise

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If there is a hub around which LDS epistemology revolves, surely it is to be found in Moroni’s Promise: Moroni 10:3-5: 3 Behold, ...
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Tuesday, 6 September 2016

Church Handbook of Instructions: Guidelines for Apologists

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I have no intention of explaining how the correspondence which I now offer to the public fell into my hands. - C. S. Lewis   Church Ha...