Utah State University Secular Humanists, Atheists, and Free Thinkers
Since its 1830 publication, there have been nearly 4,000 changes made to the Book of Mormon. The vast majority of these changes were minor grammatical edits. Other changes were more significant, tweaking and clarifying doctrines. My favorite change, though, corrected a hilarious and embarrassing typo in the 1992 Spanish edition of the Book of Mormon.
From Mormon Times:
An attorney for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints predicts secularism will be one of the most significant obstacles facing the LDS Church over the coming decade.
William F. Atkin, associate general counsel for the LDS Church, made the prognostication Saturday during an address at the 2010 J. Reuben Clark Law Society Conference on the University of Utah campus.
“When governments become neutral towards religion, we see less and less protection of religion and religious activities,” he said. “Secularism in the world is neutral at best towards religions and hostile at worst. We’re seeing more and more that it is hostile, not just neutral, towards religion.”
In the United States, secularism could result in changing how the tax code treats nonprofit religious organizations.
“We think there’s going to be a tightening now of what kind of entities get tax-exempt status,” Atkin said. “Maybe churches are no longer going to be viewed as such a positive influence in society — therefore (maybe) they’re not going to be granted tax-exempt status.”
Just a reminder: Our sister group SHIFT at the University of Utah is hosting a huge event in SLC this weekend. Here is the event info, via SHIFT’s blog:
Some of you have probably already seen this video, but I’d be remiss not to post it.
For weeks, I’ve been prodding people to vote for this blog in the 2009 William Law X-Mormon Awards. Well, my incessant nagging paid off—we won! We won two Brodies! My post “Watching LDS General Conference so you don’t have to” was awarded “Best Humor Piece,” and we collectively won “Best New Blog.”
