I really do hope you're 12. Otherwise, I'm afraid that you might be retarded. I was asking because your meaning was ambiguous. It almost sounded like you thought Mormonism wasn't new enough to be worthy of study. I assumed I must have misunderstood, as that's a ludicrous argument. Now, I remember your intellectual ability and realize I shouldn't have responded at all.

Are you ever going to get back to me about that "slow, hanging curve"? I was so looking forward to watching you dribble one half way to the mound.

Every time I see this title in the front page, I think I read "Curse on Mormonism at Harvard".

I agree it's unclear. I'd tend to think the opposite of what malapert seemed to say (in woot's explanation) - after 200 years there's finally enough to start studying it seriously.

We are beginning to become relevant, just beginning. However, it is not a broad base of study. How relevant is it to study the Baptists?

Our history is interesting though.

It's interesting that one of the more prominent Mormon researchers works at Baylor (Baptist).

Can you imagine a prominent historian of Baptists being employed by BYU? I can't. (And we don't even have to go to the place where we admit to ourselves that true scholarship is about priority #99 at BYU).

Stark moved from Washington State to Baylor, didn't he. Isn't he a sociologist?

Stark's an idiot if he really believes what he wrote in The Victory of Reason.

One of the worst books ever written.

PS - Sociologists should stick to sociology. I know too many who think they're historians (no offense, woot).

But I recall a few years ago that there was quite a scandal when the mullahs at Baylor discovered that there was a mormon in their midst.

Your clairvoyance is astounding. How did you know my age? Or, has my mom been on this site disclosing private things to you? Did she also tell you about my genetic research project? If she did, I hope she swore you to secrecy. Pinky squared zoot.

When you juxtapose "scrambling" and a faith which has been around 178 yrs, don't you see just a mite of irony? Sorry for my puerile assumptions and the concomitant confusion caused thereby.

As for your ad hominem attack zoot, I understand that when you let your emotions control, your intellect and reason suffers. Controlling those emotions will come as the maturation process unfolds. What do I know, I'm only 12.

I now see that your position is quite logical, indeed. I'd love to hear your opinions on why schools have classes on Islam.