re: #184 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

You joke, but yes. It seems like every new “revelation” is drastically simplified from the last one.

I don’t see it that way. If anything, it becomes more complex, if only because new info is added without the old one being deleted.

Case in point: I always wondered how people can believe in the more or less literal biblical Christianity. I mean, there are so many contradictions and so on. But then come Mormons and add new books, new legends, new outrageous stories, new problematic history - and all this without getting rid of the old stuff. What was cognitive dissonance in traditional Christianity now becomes cognitive dissonance squared.

This means that the Mormon apologists need to be many times as inventive as the traditional Christian ones (and they are, in a way). This also means that the Mormon theology is also more complex in significant ways.