I find this bizarre. A man with a beautiful wife, five kids, a marriage that works, a great job, and a ward that would carry his casket walks away and says it is not true because of some dumb crap he heard on a John Dehlin podcast.
Look at what he is holding. Forty years of results, every one of them grown from the seed described in the Book of Mormon, in both hands. And he sets them down because an academic footnote came in.
It is a form of madness, a man standing in the orchard declaring the tree never grew, with the juice still on his chin. He did not discover the Church was false. He discovered that he only had one way of asking the question, and it was the wrong one, and nobody ever told him there was another.
He says he lost his testimony. He never lost it. He tucks it into bed every night. He was just never taught what actually defines truth.
@Victoriawrites2@Mormonger So glad to have you as a fellow crewmember on the cruiseship Mortality! Enjoy (and follow) increased instructions from our Captain now with the Gift of the Holy Ghost. Keep making covenants and you’ll be empowered to serve passengers in new ways, side by side with our Captain!
@thejorgerojas@akcougar@Mitch_Harper I was sad about the mate. My dad and uncle both served in Argentina. Such a missed opportunity for shared experience, on my end.
@thejorgerojas@akcougar@Mitch_Harper Not just my mission, the whole area that included Brazil had a strict no-caffeine (even Coke and Pepsi) and no mate rule, from the area presidency. I thought I saw something recently that the missionary department was now saying no energy drinks (and no creatine?).
@SammyJdot@akcougar@Mitch_Harper Not just my mission, the whole area that included Brazil had a strict no-caffeine (even Coke and Pepsi) and no mate rule, from the area presidency. I thought I saw something recently that the missionary department was now saying no energy drinks (and no creatine?).