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Today’s Sunday School lesson is on “open-mindedness”

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Comments (4)

  1. Chino says:
    April 6, 2009 at 5:44 am

    Good fun, cheers.

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  2. Craig says:
    April 6, 2009 at 1:00 pm

    I found myself on Saturday during comference explaining to a sister missionary on temple square why I was an atheist, and in order to try to convince me of the truth of theism, she told me of personal anecdotes which she couldn’t explain except as being supernatural, of course being unable to understand that her leaping to the supernatural as an “explanation” for anything unexplained is the height of illogic and unreason.

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  3. Goldarn says:
    April 6, 2009 at 2:59 pm

    Excellent.

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  4. Andrew S says:
    April 6, 2009 at 9:07 pm

    The distinction between nonbelief (e.g., you’re unconvinced, so you don’t believe) and saying that something cannot be true is so critical.

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