December 2020 update: I wrote this article over 3 years ago and it has surprisingly been read by over 3000 people in these 3 years. Since writing, the links I used have died, it seems Jake has taken down that…
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Continuing my content exchange with a Mormon friend, I now give a review to the video found here (100 Reasons Why Evolution Is STUPID! – Kent Hovind) High level summary of my response This video was tedious and painful to watch.…
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The next piece of the content exchange that I agreed to do with my friend was Alma 30, from the Book of Mormon. My memory of the exact content of each chapter is a bit rusty, but I suspected this…
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So recently another friend and I arranged a “content exchange” — we both give each other something to read and after reading it I provide some commentary about what I read. In this case my friend gave me three distinct…
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The Grand Airport Allegory Imagine that you were born in, and grew up in, the international arrivals terminal of the Sydney airport. All of your life, you were abundantly exposed to the stories of people arriving from all over the…
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So, I’ve been on Easter holiday with my family and had some time. I posted on Facebook looking for book recommendations and one of my good friends who is a Muslim recommended me to read Hamza Andreas Tzortzis’s The Divine Reality: God,…
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“可恨之人必有可怜之处” — Chinese proverb; “Those that could be hated must have parts that could be pitied” (Note: this article is written primarily for an ex-Mormon audience. I’d recommend believing LDS members not read this, though they probably don’t read anything…
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Welcome to the Mormon Spiritual Experiences Podcast! In this fourth episode, I talk about how the kinds of religious experiences we’re capable of having depend on what we believe we’re capable of experiencing. In other words, how the belief in…
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Here is an exhaustive list of all essays published on the lds.org website as of 30-01-2017: Are Mormons Christian? (To address the common question of whether Mormons count as Christians) Becoming Like God (To address the common question of the doctrine of…
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“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A…
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