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An Agnostic's Apology

This book delves into the philosophical and spiritual struggles of an individual grappling with the concept of agnosticism. The author reflects on the challenges of navigating religious beliefs and the search for meaning in a world that seems to lack a definitive answer to the existence of a higher power. more

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Leslie Stephen
Leslie Stephen

Leslie Stephen was an English essayist, critic, and biographer, born on November 28, 1832, and died on February 22, 1904. He is renowned for his literary criticism and his biography of Thomas Carlyle. A prominent figure of the Victorian era, Stephen's work significantly influenced the evolution of modern literary criticism. more

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“One area of the Book of Mormon that does bother some is what they see as anachronistic doctrine; that the Book of Mormon has Christian doctrine prior to the coming of Christ; that it has seemingly New Testament doctrines appearing centuries before Jesus arrives, and it seems to be representing a form of Christianity existing in the New World where there doesn't seem to be much evidence of that archaeologically. Christianity is invisible in the New World prior to the coming of Columbus, and so those things seem like clear anachronisms to people looking at it in that way.”

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“Horses in the Book of Mormon would be another. You have relatively few mentions of horses, but there are some, and we don't know exactly how they were used; they don't seem to be all that common. Were they horses as we understood them, [or] does the term describe some other animal? Languages don't always and cultures don't always classify things the way we would expect. We have what we call common-sense ways of doing it. They're not common sense; they're just ours. But again, we don't have a strong case there. We're just problem solving there.”

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“Honesty is the foundation of a sound character and the keystone of all other virtues. It is the cement without which all other redeeming features are fractured and without anchor. A dishonest person may be kind, witty, and very capable, but the strength of character simply isn't there. Honesty does not come by degrees. A person is either all honest or he is dishonest. You can be true or you can be false, but you can't be both at the same time.”

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