Dallas Jolley, a TBM, is authoring faith-promoting posts underneath the Mormon Stories podcasts of JD's interviews of Carson and Marisa Calderwood ... who have attracted Disciplinary Council attention in Seattle. These two recent interviews are well worth listening to. Carson and Marisa very articulately shine a light on how self-destructive their local Church leaders are behaving to exacerbate the damage done to the testimonies of their local membership.

I thought the following post was well written and shows how an intelligent TBM can pretzel his brain into blindly accepting fake BS scriptures as worthy of faith.

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Latter-day Saints are not all super intellectual but they have faith and they have seen miracles because of their faith. Priesthood blessings that result in a miracle as is inspiration received while serving others for the others’ sake is common among faithful Latter-day Saints. A recent convert said she no long felt like a spectator when she attended her ward because everyone is involved in helping others. Those with faith don’t expect to gain physical knowledge of Christ or the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon or Book of Moses or of Abraham because they realize that God would not give us things that are provable by physical evidence because then there would be no need for faith. Call us foolish, but faith always proceeds a miracle, for God can do no work where there is no faith, for they reject Him. Dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith. Ether 12:6. “O that cunning plan of the evil one! O the vainness, and the frailties, and the foolishness of men! When they are learned they think they are wise, and they hearken not unto the counsel of God, for they set it aside, supposing they know of themselves, wherefore, their wisdom is foolishness and it profiteth them not. And they shall perish.” 2 Nephi 9:28 If you have a Book of Mormon, read 2 Nephi Chapter 9. Think about what you read, ponder it in your heart, and pray about it. Go back, read it again and consider the Lord’s counsel, and pray about it again.

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Dallas Jolley's recent discourse on faith (received via email; not posted here yet) does not mention the preponderance of Priesthood blessings that have no discernible effect, or the preponderance of prayers of the faithful that go unanswered. If you had a computer that worked as reliably as faith and prayer, you would give up and throw it into a recycling dumpster. His claim that God will not provide scriptures that can be proven authentic ... to force believers to exercise faith ... is a lame, disingenuous whitewash of the clear, obvious and simple fact that the Book of Mormon is bad fiction, and the Book of Abraham is a bald-faced hoax (just like the Kinderhook plates that displayed JS's true colors to the world). It makes sense to believe in things which are unseen which are TRUE. How much sense does it make to have faith in things which are unseen because they are known BS? The Calderwoods figured out that faith in BS is a bad investment and have moved on. Dallas will continue investing, and one day reach the same conclusion as the Calderwoods.