Contemplative Dexterity

(Apologies for another long post) In a perusal of my Facebook news feed, I stumbled across a lovely article that a neighbor of my parents shared entitled “So…You Think the Book of Mormon is a Fraud” . Mr. Trimble, who authored this lovely article, uses the typical Mormon circular reasoning that states that if the Book of Mormon is true, then Joseph Smith was a prophet; and if Joseph Smith was a prophet, then the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is the same Church that Christ established while he was on Earth. So in the Mormon mind, it all comes down to whether the BOM is true or not, and for this, they rely on warm fuzzy feelings to confirm that the Book is in fact, true. Mr. Trimble states that he noticed that most of the people who criticize the Book of Mormon the loudest, have not actually read it. While this may be true, I don’t think a person needs to read a book fully to understand whether it’s true or not. That’s what research is for. Reading the Book of Morm...

The LDS church recently published an article that addresses polygamy. You can read the article in its entirety here.  After reading the article at work, I decided that I needed to look for more information and went directly to mormonthink.com . I needed something that could explain the multiple facets involved in polygamy, something that would present evidence rather than try to cover it up or pass it off as just something that we can't fully understand right now, but will be revealed to us in the eternities. Polygamy has been one of those things about Mormonism that never sat right with me, but after asking why and receiving the answer "because God commanded it", I stopped pushing for a reason and tried to ignore it.   In a conversation with my boyfriend the other day, I was relating to him all of the information that I could remember from the portion of the polygamy section that I had read that day. Like myself, he had accepted polygamy as "one of those things...