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It makes sense that the Capybaras would lead the way, followed by the crazed Apologists, with the Tapirs right behind to handle the weightier and more intellectual issues. This is the same pecking order the Nephites used to pull their steel chariots.
Good faith does not require evidence, but it also does not turn a blind eye to that evidence. Otherwise, it becomes misplaced faith.
-- Moksha
moksha wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2025 7:10 pm It makes sense that the Capybaras would lead the way, followed by the crazed Apologists, with the Tapirs right behind to handle the weightier and more intellectual issues. This is the same pecking order the Nephites used to pull their steel chariots.
If only the horse in that depiction was depicted as a true "Nephite Stallion" (tapir.)
Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions. -Frater Ravus
The old children's TV series VeggieTales was surprised when the Mormon TV channel KBYU complained vigorously about the miscegenation between Bob the Tomato and Madame Blueberry, arguing that one of their past prophets had decreed that the mixing of seeds between a tomato and a blueberry should result in immediate death.
Their shock was put into perspective when one of the TV Network executives asked if it was from that religious cult out in Utah.
Good faith does not require evidence, but it also does not turn a blind eye to that evidence. Otherwise, it becomes misplaced faith.
-- Moksha
As part of apologetic thinking to prove the truth of Joseph Smith's translating Seer Stone, the discovery of deep-sea polymetallic nodules that have geo-battery potential and can produce oxygen out of sea water, has entered the Mormon Zeitgeist as making the concept of Joseph's stone more than just folk magic.
Preliminary speculation imagines that one of these polymetallic nodules was thrust upward during the creation of the Pangaea supercontinent and later came to rest at the bottom of Willard Chase's well, where it was later "borrowed" by future Prophet Joseph Smith. The rest, as they say, is LDS History.
Good faith does not require evidence, but it also does not turn a blind eye to that evidence. Otherwise, it becomes misplaced faith.
-- Moksha
