April 29, 2011 – 11:26 am
A couple months ago I received an email from someone who stumbled onto TempleStudy.com. It read in part, [The Bible] is purely a creation of man to placate the ego’s fear of death and nothing more. All religion was invented to buffer the ego against the fear of death. That’s certainly one way to think [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Temples Today
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Also tagged covenant, dead, death, eternal life, exaltation, family, monks, physical, plan of salvation, poem, preoccupation, ray kurzweil, relationships, resurrection, science, sealing, temples
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August 3, 2008 – 11:36 am
One of our readers, RBiddulph, recently pointed me to a quote by Harold Bloom, a well-known literary and cultural critic who is currently a Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University, who once said this about Joseph Smith: I can only attribute to his genius or daemons his uncanny recovery of elements in ancient [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Church History, Scholarship, Tidbits
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Also tagged death, esoteric, hymn, joseph smith, music, prophet, rituals, sacrifice, traditions, w. w. phelps
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February 12, 2008 – 2:25 pm
Today the LDS Newsroom has an article on life and death, following the passing of President Hinckley. I like the quote that they gave from Harold Bloom: Regarding the undaunted way in which Latter-day Saints confront death, well-known literary scholar Harold Bloom proclaimed the following: “What is the essence of religion? … Religion rises inevitably [...]
