When i read the book of mormon, it seems, well, absolutely goofy, like a spoofy joke someone wrote for fun. But i have a very very smart and very kind acquaintance who always has a copy, he reads it literally every day. Gets a lot out of it, he says. all religious texts are kind of goofy from the outside. Garden of eden? Really? Silly…
Except the diamond sutra. That ones just perplexing. Perhaps enlightening.
Like any shared fake reality– money, the afterlife, americanism– it only works if everyone, or at least the ones you know, are into it.
