Artorius🔆🦬

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[Artorius🔆🦬 @acewizardnz]

@BeerstudBlack @JamieClass5 @MrNew_Vegas_ "Hey guys I know I said this guy waas legit but I lied and now im telling you cause he personally wronged me" definitely gonna go over well lol

[Artorius🔆🦬 @acewizardnz]

I try to be tolerant of other religions but Mormonism is so profoundly fake in such obvious ways that I genuinely do struggle to respect it at all.

[Bruce North @BruceNorth46058]

If we had the golden plates in a museum, and every expert in the world agreed Joseph translated the Book of Mormon correctly, would that "prove" The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is true? Would everyone be compelled to join the Church?

[Artorius🔆🦬 @acewizardnz]

@BeerstudBlack @JamieClass5 @MrNew_Vegas_ You do realize that this all ammounts to "an angle told me" right?

[Artorius🔆🦬 @acewizardnz]

@KeithManleyjr @GuyInco15542744 Even assuming it was a small enough genetic group to be totally undetectable which is unlikely, culture is pervasive. Where are the iron artifacts, hebrew writing, clothes, ships, Hebrew burrial practices, Religious traditions, etc?

[Artorius🔆🦬 @acewizardnz]

@olgringoHancock @econ_escape And there were no resources for the average person to learn. But EVERYONE who could read read The Bible. Scholars, merchants, priests, nobles, writers, etc.

[Artorius🔆🦬 @acewizardnz]

@olgringoHancock @econ_escape "The dark ages" is a myth and most modern scholars reject that label but regardless, people not being allowed to read wasnt universal nor was it a thing for the entire middle ages. He simple fact is for most of it people didnt read because they couldnt-

[Artorius🔆🦬 @acewizardnz]

@BeerstudBlack @JamieClass5 @MrNew_Vegas_ Alright lay it out for me

[Artorius🔆🦬 @acewizardnz]

@BeerstudBlack @JamieClass5 @MrNew_Vegas_ Im sorry but you cant just say "an angle told me im a prophet" in the fucking 1800s and expect to be believed

[Artorius🔆🦬 @acewizardnz]

@olgringoHancock @econ_escape What lmao? The Bible was probably te single most read book in the west fora thousand years

[Artorius🔆🦬 @acewizardnz]

@RubinsBlockList @Virgini23166650 Potentially, my point is just to highlight that faith is not always inherently irrational. If you have a cutoff point beyond which you're not willing to have faith thats fine but faith isnt just for religion.

[Artorius🔆🦬 @acewizardnz]

@RubinsBlockList @Virgini23166650 Dont be intentionally obtuse. Its not "picking up my toothbrush" its believing the universe exists, period.

[Artorius🔆🦬 @acewizardnz]

@olgringoHancock @econ_escape Some Apostolic letters would probably have been written in Aramaic or Latin or other various local dialects but anything official was almost certainly in Greek for the first hundred years or so.

[Artorius🔆🦬 @acewizardnz]

@olgringoHancock @econ_escape Well for one thing, because we know what language Paul and the other Church Fathers wrote in.

[Artorius🔆🦬 @acewizardnz]

@paininjection @riceabundance Like for all the flaws of Catholicism or many other major denominations they were histroically progressive at the time of their founding. Mormonism is actively regressive and was explicitly founded as such.

[Artorius🔆🦬 @acewizardnz]

@paininjection @riceabundance Tbf Marxism isnt the only leftist philosophy, and I myself am both religious and a socialist, but I do think there is something uniquely funny about trying to "reclaim" a religion which was explicitly founded one the idea that African people are cursed by God.

[Artorius🔆🦬 @acewizardnz]

@Lus_Headbanged @CerebralCereal0 @realTheoElliott "Evolutionary dating" what the fuck are you talking about dude?

[Artorius🔆🦬 @acewizardnz]

@monstermon0 @MudkipEnth Yes

[Artorius🔆🦬 @acewizardnz]

@olgringoHancock @econ_escape No? I never said *I* spoke Hebrew or Greek, biblical scholars do. And Greek and Hebrew aren't translations they're the original texts.

[Artorius🔆🦬 @acewizardnz]

@riceabundance That is a... bold strategy

[Artorius🔆🦬 @acewizardnz]

@FleabagMoroni @CerebralCereal0 You do realize you can test DNA in bones right? We have extensively sequenced the genetics of pre contact Native Americans, and the absolute latest injection of Levantine DNA into their population is thousands of years before Israel was even a kingdom.

[Artorius🔆🦬 @acewizardnz]

11k why is all my shit popping off tuis week lmao

[Artorius🔆🦬 @acewizardnz]

I try to be tolerant of other religions but Mormonism is so profoundly fake in such obvious ways that I genuinely do struggle to respect it at all.