(March 31, 2018 at 6:28 pm)LastPoet Wrote: I always had to work for my money...
I guess I envy those that fleece the sheep without feeding them proper.
Mormonism exacts quite a toll on their apologists. They are rarely schooled as to the actual church history and when the questions inevitably arise and they check PUBLISHED church documents that confirm the questions have difficult answers, their apologists have a very steep and unexpected learning curve to negotiate.
(an early revelation Joe Smith inflicted on his made up church which has come back to bite them again and again is that they were commanded by God to be a record keeping people. So they kept records. Unfortunately for the current Mormon hierarchy, a tremendous amount of this material was published at one time or another. Subsequent sea changes in LDS dogma, and even nearly every single revelation they received from God has been changed multiple times has been thoroughly documented and published by the church itself. The original polygamy revelation, for instance, originally commanded all wives subsequent to the first be Native American. God changed his mind several times on this revelation before he decided to pull the plug on it entirely. And for those willing to wade thru published LDS materials, all the versions of that revelation have been revealed. It's a tough topic for LDS apologists, repeated changes to the polygamy revelation calls into question their God's judgment, or their ability to discern just what in the Holy Hell He is going on about. And remember, no matter how twisted the trail of revelation revisions are, their apologists are REQUIRED to claim all the versions are mutually consistent and most of the revisions are for clarity or grammar, It's atough job, I feel for them. I don't feel for their minders and overseers, however)
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
