The Old and New Testaments, the BoM, the D&C, the PoGP. Hundreds of pages, yet the supposedly important principles, doctrines and commandments could be boiled down to much much less. Come on, prophets and apostles or whoever actually wrote this stuff, get to the F-ing point.

There are a few nice, simple, pithy parts, though. The 10 Commandments, the Sermon on the Mount, parables and such. Do this, don't do that. Lists. Lists are good. You don't need to dig through piles of history, narrative and lecturing to find the important parts.

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Amen!

Ricky Gervais not so bad either:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPYHmQ8uFRQ

OUT OF MORMONISM = think

Maybe the Bible/Book of Mormon just needed a good editor.

Maybe it's because rather than being the orderly type who would say, "Okay, write this down, here are all the important bits," God just likes to talk. And talk and talk. Except to you and me and nearly everyone else who ever lived.

It's funny how this translates as a virtue in the mind of Terryl Givens. In a Mormon Stories interview he describes the chore of slogging through Isaiah, with the payoff being a sudden couple of sublime verses. Then back into the impenetrable jumble of scripture.

It's like God doesn't get us humans at all.