I recently got involved in a discussion online about Joseph Smith were someone finally replied, “He was a convicted con man.” Have you ever heard this? Years ago on Swedish Television my favorite atheist Richard Dawkins said the same thing and that the Book of Mormon was “an obvious fake.” Pop music star, Brandon Flowers, […]
Symbols of Christ in the Law of Moses.
Welcome to Anxiously Engaged! For those of you who don’t know, I live in France, in a pretty internationally diverse place. And a Muslim friend of mine asked me the question, “Why Christians eat pork when it is clearly forbidden in the Bible?” For Muslims, pork is a really big issue, and I will answer […]
No One Has Ever Seen God… Or Have They?
In these debates between atheists and Christians, this always gets me, “nobody knows,” because nobody has ever seen God. And this belief is prevalent among many Christian denominations as well. LDS, what do you think of this argument, that no one has ever seen God? If I believed that were truly the case, I would probably be an atheist myself.
The Debates! Atheists vs. Christians… where do we sit?
For years I’ve watched attacks on Christianity and religion in general from my favourite atheists in the scientific community like Richard Dawkins and Laurence Krauss, and celebrities like Ricky Gervais. They absolutely lambast our belief in God and encourage militant ridicule and public displays of contempt towards those who believe. This growing group of self proclaimed elitists see themselves as the last bastion of reason and are on a mission to rid society of what they deem a superstitious belief in God.
Anxiously Engaged: 2019!
Welcome to Anxiously Engaged dot com. Hopefully my website name is recognisable to all Latter Day Saints as an admonition of the Lord to us all from an 1831 revelation to the church. …men should be anxiously engaged in a good cause, and do many things of their own free will, and bring to pass […]