Previously: We Are Against Israel Because We Are Jews My detractors are certainly going to have a field day with the title of this one. "Did you hear? Rock Waterman believes the earth is flat!" Well no, that's not what I said.  The truth is, I don't "believe" the earth is flat. I don't believe the earth is round, either. The fact is, I don't know what shape the earth is.  How can I, when even the experts are not in agreement?  Today, some have theorized that the earth is shaped not like globe, but as more of an oblate spheroid, like this: Others surmise it might be ..read more

Previously: The Israel Scam: How America's Christian Churches Bought The Con (This is part three of my series on How Mormons Should View The War In Israel.  You can find the first two posts by clicking here and here.) I thought about captioning the above photo "A Group of Rabid Anti-Semites Protest Against the Holy State of Israel," but I was afraid the irony would be lost on some of you.  Yet that would be no less ironic than what is taking place in the video below.  See if you can spot the actual anti-semites in this clip:             &n ..read more

  Previously: How Mormons Should Think About The War In Israel In my last post I discussed how hundreds of thousands of religious Jews condemn the current State of Israel as blaspheme against God.  Zionism (the  philosophy that birthed the political State of Israel), is, they insist, diametrically opposed to the religion of Judaism.  And they are right.  So how come so many Christians support a system of government that is diametrically opposed to scripture? And worse, why are Christian pastors able to completely ignore all the teachings of Christ and call for the wh ..read more

 Previously: What The Book Of Mormon Says About Abortion Douglas Casey recently described what’s happening in the Middle East as "a dog's breakfast."  That's a 19th century British colloquialism you don't often hear these days, but I've never seen it used so aptly.  No matter how disgusting the carnage before him, a dog will mindlessly attack and devour his chosen meal even it it utimately kills him.  You can't pull a determined dog off or get him to slow down. So as we consider this current dog's breakfast of a mess in Palestine, let us begin with two undenia ..read more

Previously: This May Herald The Beginning Of The End For The Vaccine Scam  Over the decades I've accumulated quite a number of books related to the Book of Mormon, but nothing I've ever read has prepared me for the information presented in the book you see in the illustration on the left.  Kendal Anderson described this book as "groundbreaking," and the first review that appeared on Amazon, by one Kim S. Peterson (no relation to the author) simply says it is "the best book sold on Amazon." I don't consider either of those descriptions to be hyperbolic. This is far and away the mos ..read more

           Previously: This May Herald The Beginning Of The End For The Vaccine Scam Almost everything you will find on this platform has been written by me; I like to keep things in my own voice so no one else gets blamed for the things I write.  However, I have made a few rare exceptions in past years when I have come across something someone else wrote that expresses views or provides information that I felt deserved a wiser audience; usually these are things I would have written myself if I had only been a lot smarter and a much better writer. These h ..read more

  Right now as I write this (Sunday Morning May 21st, 2023), the Restoration Conference held at Layton, Utah is currently taking place.  You can join in and watch it at the link below: If you came in late, you will still be able to access the entire conference (as well as all past conferences) on the Restoration Archives Youtube Channel, available HERE. I'll be back with content of my own in a few weeks, but while I'm here I also want to mention the latest post at Book of Mormon Perspectives, which has been delving deeply into evidence that LDS Church leaders are working hard a ..read more

Previously: Don't Call Me A Right-Winger Connie and I had some new friends visit us last week who are relatively new readers of this blog and they told me they check in every day to see if there is anything new here. My intent is to post something new every month, but the last entry was posted in October and I'm currently recovering from cataract surgery in both eyes and probably won't be able to see well enough to write something before December ends, either.  So I thought for now I would share one of my more important pieces in the event anyone else is stopping by searching for new con ..read more

Previously: This Is Not A 'Gay' Thing This month I'm presenting a post I originally published on this site three and a half years ago, partly because this blog has picked up thousands more readers in recent months and partly because I think it's important in these times to discuss the political philosophy of Mormonism.  But mostly because I felt it necessary to go over this information again as a prefatory introduction to a topic I had planned to address today. That one will have to wait until next month because I think the things addressed below  will be helpful to review befor ..read more

  Previously: So The Church Has Been Hijacked -Okay, So Now What?  Recently more than one person called me  "homophobic" because I shared certain clips and memes on my Facebook page. I suppose those who accuse me of being "phobic" of "homos" must assume I run screaming into my bedroom to hide under the covers every time my youngest son drops in for a visit. But never mind. I covered all that years ago in two separate posts. The first, Why I Don't Care If You're Gay, was written during the controversy surrounding California's Proposition 8, and the other, The Real Threat To Tr ..read more