[…] as their knowledge progresses. Orson’s older brother Parley P. Pratt emphasized that LDS theology encompasses all of human knowledge, including “philosophy, astronomy, history, mathematics, geography, languages, the science of letters.” Brigham Young was also […]
[…] of the community of minds. 4. God’s revelation in the world is limited to the capacity of human truth; it must be stated in human terms. 5. Evolution is a true and explanatory principle […]
[…] been invited but had attended. The exploitive demagoguery that followed violated every code of civility, honor, and human dignity in its attacks on homosexuals. Utahns are a conservative lot. But most of us, like […]
[…] and secular society has problems dealing with often conflicting claims. Politics, too, is about rules that control human behavior and seems to be related by implication to moral-like standards. The authorizing institution of these […]
[…] atheist states emerged. In the West, however, under the influence of the U.N.’s 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, an increase in religious freedom was gradually institutionalized. The derivative European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) […]
[…] present form and 69% say that humans evolved. Those are flipped among white evangelicals, with 60% denying human evolution and 36% accepting evolution in some form. Only 12% of white evangelicals accept evolution according […]
[…] practice, and the early years in this period represented resistance to the modern influences already expressed in the design of the Canadian and Hawaiian Temples. By the 1930s essential functional patterns of Latter-day Saint worship […]
Ten years ago I cut to pieces another human being. Using scalpel, electric bone saw and tweezers, and blunt dissection, I slowly removed the flesh from her body over a six-month period. I was […]
[…] some over others, that his respect is equal, not conditional or partial, and does not vary, as human respect does, according to irrelevant matters: race, gender, creed, intelligence, politics, wealth, sexual orientation. The apostle […]
[…] opposite-sex attraction (with all of its accompanying impulses for pair bonding) exists innately in most of the human population but that its private expression and the conditions under which that expression may be socially […]