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Monthly Archives: September 2005
All That The Father Is
The righteous have many promises. The most surpassing of them all is a five-word infinity: All That The Father Hath. Spend some time with this concept and you begin to see why it so torments the sectarians. What God has is merely eternity, space, time, worlds without end. To fulfill that promise one must either unrighteously diminish God or blasphemously exalt man, and . . .
Yep, It’s the latter.
More on Church efforts for Katrina victims
I wanted to share with you a Church press release on the efforts to help victims of Katrina. As I’ve mentioned before, I volunteered last year to help hurricane victims in Florida, and it’s a worthy cause. I’d love to hear information from Church members traveling to the region, and I’d encourage anybody who has the means or is close enough to the Gulf region to volunteer for this effort, which is the largest relief effort ever for the Church in the United States.
Keep on reading for the Church press release.
Non-Mormon Mormon Movies Part 2 — Catch Me If You Can
I’m going to continue the series begun by Geoff with the movie Catch Me If You Can. In this fact-based movie (I don’t know what was changed for dramatic purposes, so my thoughts stem only from the movie, not what may have actually happened), Frank Abagnale Jr., a teenager, becomes a brilliant con artist, and cashes millions of dollars of fraudulent checks in many countries. He begins his path when his father gets in trouble with the IRS, and then his parents separate. He wants to regain his father’s losses and get his parents back together, figuring if he can fix their money problems, then they will be happy again. He impersonates an airline pilot, doctor, and lawyer, all quite successfully, even though he is a teenager. At one point, Frank is clearly tired of running from the FBI and anyone else who would know he is a fraud, and goes to his father, clearly wanting to be acceptable in his father’s eyes and able to stop lying and running. His father just encourages him to continue. From early on, the FBI pursues him, led by Agent Carl Hanratty. After a few years, Hanratty succeeds in catching Frank in France, and Frank is tried and jailed.
FAIR Conference Transcripts
In case anyone is interested, FAIR has uploaded some transcripts from last month’s conference:
Reflections on Secular Anti-Mormonism by Daniel C. Peterson
What I Learned about Life, the Church, and the Cosmos from Hugh Nibley by Boyd Petersen
Though uploaded earlier, this one was not linked on the main page of the site, so you may have missed it – “Believest thou…?”: Faith, Cognitive Dissonance, and the Psychology of Religious Experience by Wendy Ulrich, Ph.D.
The last one was one of my favorites, though the other two are also excellent.