That thread is way too long, so I’m not going to read it, but I did a quick search for and didn’t see any discussion on what I consider the dealbreaker when considering the evidence for or against most religions (but especially any flavor of Christianity), which is the existence of “souls.” Simply put, the “soul” hypothesis doesn’t jive with current evidence from physics, and it doesn’t pay rent with regard to observations from neuroscience (or any kind of observations, for that matter). I strongly suspect that the Book of Mormon doesn’t deal with evidence from neuroscience, which means that, due to the “soul” hypothesis being fairly central to Christian belief (it is the postulated mechanism by which a person is judged for “sins” committed in their life), you don’t have to read it.
As an aside, I consider this line of reasoning to be something like “atheism for dummies” since most religions that I’ve seen depend on humans having something like a soul.
That thread is way too long, so I’m not going to read it, but I did a quick search for and didn’t see any discussion on what I consider the dealbreaker when considering the evidence for or against most religions (but especially any flavor of Christianity), which is the existence of “souls.” Simply put, the “soul” hypothesis doesn’t jive with current evidence from physics, and it doesn’t pay rent with regard to observations from neuroscience (or any kind of observations, for that matter). I strongly suspect that the Book of Mormon doesn’t deal with evidence from neuroscience, which means that, due to the “soul” hypothesis being fairly central to Christian belief (it is the postulated mechanism by which a person is judged for “sins” committed in their life), you don’t have to read it.
As an aside, I consider this line of reasoning to be something like “atheism for dummies” since most religions that I’ve seen depend on humans having something like a soul.