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To: Constant Reader who wrote (230736)	5/10/2007 7:41:03 PM
From: neolib	Respond to of 281500

Religions that utilize the Bible do not contain "a set of beliefs at variance with a large body of modern knowledge?" Again, who's kidding who? I never said that at all. In fact, I have a very big problem with certain Bible based religions that deny evolution. Perhaps you noted that question in the first Rep debate? (Brownback, Huckabee, Tancredo all flunked IIRC) What I did say was that the list you provided does not particularly bother me. Go read your own list. Sorry, I would not give Holocaust deniers the time of day. Also, that is off-topic. We were discussing Mormonism. Uh?? You get to define narrowly what is on or off topic? In order to understand things, you need some reality checks for context. So once again, WHY won't you give a Holocaust denier the time of day, and how is it different than Mormonism wrt to belief and evidence? Is it just the time factor or do you think there is something else overriding? Personally, I think you need to reach deeper than that, probably to Greek or Roman mythology, but that really is another argument entirely, and a rather boring one at that, I think. I didn't notice any large block of voters being rallied in recent elections based on either Greek or Roman mythology. Could you point them out to me? Perhaps you should spend some time reading Hal Lindsay (SP?) and looking at Evangelical's eschatology and then look at their voting patterns from 2000 and on. I'd be fascinated to read something comparable inspired by Greek or Roman mythology relating to voting patterns during this time. Can you help me? Look, I'm not interested in defending Mormon theology, I certainly do not subscribe to it, but I don't think it is any more difficult to remain a practicing Mormon in the modern world than it is to remain a practicing Roman Catholic AFAIK, the Roman Catholic church largely learned their lesson with Solar cosmology, and since that debacle, they have tried to stay in sync with physical reality, while holding whatever beliefs in metaphysical areas. Fine by me. Mormons unfortunately don't fall in that category. Perhaps you don't understand the difference?