Silk for calde blog: Wolfe thesis

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From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:46:30 -0500 (EST)
Subject: (urth) Silk for calde blog: Wolfe thesis
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I personally have no problem with the Book of Mormon or the "corrected"
Bible of the Jehovah's Witnesses. Both Mormonism and JWism are perfectly
fine religions.

Remember, I am *not* a Christian. Brunians accept everything that
Catholics accept, and we accept a few extra bits, which is why we are
Brunians and not Catholic Christians. We are a deviation from Christianity
in the same sense that (Catholic and Orthodox) Christianity (and Islam to
a much lesser extent) is a deviation from Judaism.


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>> Let me put it this way: if you take the attitude you are proposing here,
>> then the logical result is that you have no argument against the Book
>> of Mormon, or the "corrected" Bible of the Jehovah's Witnesses.
>
> Disclaimer, I am a Mormon.  I also am skipping the context of the
> above paragraph, as it isn't relevant to the information below.
>
> Just a quick point out.  The Mormons went with the King James version
> of the Bible (without Maccabees, etc).  We are encouraged to seek out
> the other books, but are told that we are on our own with respect to
> its nature as scripture.
>
> Oh, and fascinating discussion, even if it has fallen off the tracks :)
>
> Jeff
>
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