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Old 01-08-2008, 08:15 PM   #44
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Originally Posted by UtahDan View Post
Allow me to pull you back in and ask why not to the above. If I decide that notwithstanding empirical evidence for or against, that based upon spiritual evidences or based merely upon a choice to suspend disbelief, that I believe the foundational claims of the LDS church, why at that point do empirical evidences matter to me?

Of course I understand why it would matter to the dispassionate observer, but when it comes to the church I'm not sure I've met one of those.
Maybe I mispoke; I agree with what you wrote: you framed the issue nicely. I should have written that I think the question was worth talking about but I just didn't have much to add.

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