Fill it with firewood, press the Tow/Haul button and things are amazing.” It’s not really important that you agree that Chevy is an inferior brand-or that if you do love Chevy you renounce your alliance. Walk up to me and say, “I believe the world is flat.” I’ll simply go, “How interesting! What are your feelings on Chevy trucks? I used to be a Ford guy but now I’m a Toyota guy. How you gonna fight that? I offer quietly and internally. They’re all wrong or lying because I SAY SO. Latter-day Saints thrive on their flat earth theory because they believe the facts are murky and hidden, there’s a vast archeological conspiracy misinterpreting the data, years of false narratives have corrupted the truth and are twisting it to thwart God’s truth. Are you going to change my mind? Absolutely not, but I will agree that I got nothing no science, no history, no facts. Realize that there’s no credible science backing me in any way, shape or form but, I just believe it. Personally I believe in ghosts, can’t prove it, have no science to back me but I believe that events and people can leave a shadow behind.

You’re better off calling Shaq up and saying, “Yo, doofus, the earth is round ya know?” Your time is better spent in just being friendly and avoiding their obvious lack of knowledge. I’d offer that proofs and facts and history is on your side and trying to bludgeon a Latter-day Saint with reality is a serious waste of time. How you gonna argue with that? I offer you don’t. Monson is a prophet, seer and revelator because I SAY SO.” “How can you not believe me?” “Joseph never had sex with anyone but Emma, it’s so because I SAY SO.” “Joseph was killed a martyr because I SAY SO.” “Thomas S.

Take that belief system and then extrude it to cover LDS historical issues. All data may militate against them, all facts stand as a roadblock, there be not a shred of evidence but THEY SAY SO-and that makes it so. Face it, in the absence of being able to present any factual argument they BoM enthusiast is in the same bind as a Flat-Earth fanboy, they have to turn to simple personal belief, it’s true because they say it’s true. This should give insight into why arguing the factual nature of the BoM is a pretty fruitless endeavor. Think about it for a moment both rely on the simple proposition of rejecting all science and fact and then replacing it with personal belief. How’s that for click bait, pretty good, yes? Let me offer this thesis right away: the LDS belief in the Book of Mormon is perfectly aligned with a belief in flat earth theory.

Mormon church flat earth map