| ACause, the plates don't matter if you have faith. If you have faith you will be willing to accept any story that explains their absence. Or even believe that are not absent but hidden in a safe place that only the elect know of. Faith gives you the balls to say that something is "true" when you have no idea if it is true at all. It would be one thing if an adherent said there are stories about the plates that I have heard. Or even there are people that have told me that they have seen the plates. That would be honest. But no, they will tell you that the plates are real in every sense. They would ask you to accept a claim that if made in a court of law would be considered hearsay and the judge would ask the jury to ignore it. Yet they maintain that it must not only be not ignored but that one must believe in it utterly. This is all possible because the faith they are talking about is just a fancy word for double standard. They want you to lower your standards for their beliefs so you will be convinced by them however they want you to raise your standards for any other belief so you will find them unconvincing. And of course not only are they unwilling to do for you what they ask of you but they will advocate their religion with little to no experience with any other religion on the planet. It amazes me that these people are not rounded up and tarred and feathered and rode out of town on a rail. The crap they are pulling is worse then the nonsense that Enron executives pulled. At least what they claimed to own does exist in reality even if the amounts and locations they claimed to have did not.
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