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What's more likely to make you apostate, science or theology?
Apparently theology.
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It's encouraging to know that more concrete, precise disciplines won't be hazardous to one's faith like the more abstract ones, speculative ones.
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That question should be "science or APOSTATE theology?"
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I don't believe study creates apostasy for the most part, but the uncaring, noninclusive mullah atmosphere within Church creates it. A big tent environment would eliminate a lot of apostasy.
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no theology was ever intended to make one apostate
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I didn't say that was the intent, I'm just saying that a theology even more flawed than Mormonism is going to result in a lot of disillusionment when they can't reconcile flawed theology with scriptures, reason and so forth.
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Eliminating commandments would create a lot fewer sinners too.
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Theology evolves or evolved to explain in philosophical and metaphysical terms how religious ideas relate to nonreligious matter. Because it is more dry that the emotive aspects of charismatic religious movements, it can tend to bore or cause one to drift. In one sense, theology is the scientific language acting as the exoskeleton of religious movements. Mormonism is the anti-theological religion, because it was created through the efforts of nonscholars, ranchers, farmers, workers, not preeminent scholars of the day a la historical Christianity.
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It's just people's way of trying to explain something that they don't understand, so I wouldn't call it BS, just perhaps scientifically unverifiable, as is almost all aspects of religious activity or belief.
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Well, from an LDS viewpoint, their theology is fatally flawed due to a lack of continuing revelation, purposeful meddling and so forth.
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