Thursday, February 23, 2012

The "Anti-Christ" gets it right

-This thought was borrowed because I like it-

“That Korihor didn’t really believe what he was saying transforms him from a heroic champion of empiricism into a mentally unbalanced con man. But it doesn’t invalidate his implicit claim of a potentially more fulfilling life outside religion. In Gospel Doctrine on Sunday, I asked what a person who believes has to fear from the words of a person who doesn’t? The answers I received were as troubling as they were predictable. And they were all based on this idea that there is no good alternative to full belief and participation in the Church. So the question I’m left with is this: how meaningful can active Church membership be if you are afraid that every possible alternative leads to misery?"

Saturday, February 11, 2012

God is an interesting entity

We are taught God will answer our prayers on his timeline and in his own way, and not necessarily when and how we want them answered. Why should I be expected to worship such a fickle and/or powerless god?