Attack of the Mormons

I just had a very nice conversation with two Elders. "Elders" is a misnomer, these two kids were just out of high school, and when I first met them they were in the process of walking through campus and being rejected, rather rudely at some points. Now don't worry, I'm not ever going to be a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Nope, it is not for me. But the members of the church are still human, and members do try and follow Christ, even if I don't agree with some of their mechanisms. I felt sorry for the dudes, and respected their earnestness and resilience. So, being given my copy of the Book of Mormon, we scheduled another "discussion" for 8'o'clock in the morning... (I'm way too nice for my own good, my sleep schedule is very important). It was a nice discussion about faith, and I must admit, it was nice to pray with people again. But I think the fact that I was moving in two weeks kept them from pushing too hard for a faith conversion.

I've visted the vistors center at the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake, and they've visited my apartment before. Very interesting people.

I was visiting Salt Lake with a Small contingent of the Debate team. Schanck, Trevor and Dove. All of us were relative skepics, and Dove (ever the philosophy and religion minor) was even more so... "So let me get this straight.. some People from Isreal felt the end of the world was going to happen, so they sailed from Isreal to the Americas carrying their text on some golden plates, aroung 540 B.C. but fell from the faith and become the Native Americans."

For Dove, that was too fantastic a story. BUT the Bible has even more fantastic stories that would sound even more ridiculous to people who were unfamilar with them.