Ep 606 – Street Epistemology with Mormon Missionaries, P1

Infants on Thrones

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Philosophy

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🗓️ 3 January 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

What would you say if you were a Mormon Missionary and you were approached by a well spoken, respectful atheist asking you how you came to be so certain about the Truth of Mormonism?

Street Epistemologist Anthony Magnabosco did this very thing with two Mormon Missionaries. Spoiler alert: he didn’t accept their free picture of Jesus or a free Book of Mormon.

Anthony’s YouTube video with the missionaries.

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0:00.0	Which makes me wonder do you really care if it's true or not? If it's not true or
0:07.0	or at the very least you discover that you don't have good reasons for thinking that it is.
0:14.0	Would you want to discover that?
0:17.0	What was it about that action that led you to think afterwards?
0:23.6	Checkmark, this passes the test.
0:26.0	You know, sometimes we sound a little bit crazy and the church,
0:28.1	crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy,
0:29.2	and the church, crazy,
0:30.2	are you 100% certain that the Book of Mormon is a source of truth?
0:37.0	Yes.
0:40.0	Did you have the ability to test it?
0:42.0	Yeah, I've been, that's what the research was is there's people who have done in-depth studies on like,
0:48.0	even the way that the Pokemon speaks, the way that there's different authors in it,
0:52.0	it's all translated by one person.
0:54.0	There's different scientific researches that have been done in the ancient texts
0:57.0	into the Bible and other Hebrew texts against this.
1:00.0	There's archaeological studies that have been made and that have been compared to things that have been put in the Book of Mormon about temples being built and there being civilizations and millions.
1:10.0	You know, sometimes we sound a little bit Praise and the Church,
1:13.0	Praise and the Church,
1:16.0	How could we actually tell for sure that what it is you're believing is true?
1:20.0	How can we really test it and be as unbiased and neutral on the claim as possible?
1:25.0	That's kind of the thing is you can't really test it by worldly means.
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