I think on this article you have captured the mystery of your Faith and put it on a level where it might be tasted. Someone once said that"sometimes we put the cookies to high up on the shelf to be reached"

Thank you for a beautiful start to my morning. You've put into words what I've never been able to — the feelings I have in the temple. You've captured why I go and why I need to return often. I'm keeping a copy of your column to remind me in case I forget!

"something a little less difficult to them — like the law of molecular attraction in zero gravity"

Oh give me a freaking break! There is nothing complicated about the Temple. People go and sit through a movie they have seen a million times because they believe they are sitting there as "proxies" for some disembodied spirit hanging out bored to tears with nothing to do until their session is done.

It is just puzzling that God couldn't come up with a better way to do this. What is it about another human being sitting in that chair that makes the movie effective for the dead person? If the dead people are still alive and can see what the people in the temple are doing, why can't they just watch the movie themselves? Then they can give the secret passwords and stuff and move out of spirit prison without having to waste the time of a live person?!

Just because it is silly and absurd does not mean it is more mysterious and complex than molecular physics!

You know, sometimes I think Jerry Johnston really wanted to be a seminary teacher, and this job gives him the opportunity to do the same thing for a newspaper.

You know, sometimes I read this stuff and wish he HAD become a seminary teacher instead of writing this drivel for a newspaper!

Lance; For people who believe, this was an excellent and uplifting story. Since you don't, perhaps you might allow those of us who do to enjoy it, and perhaps how a little respect for those who see it differently from you.

TO: Lance | 3:14 p.m. Aug. 20, 2008
AND TO: Anonymous | 3:16 p.m. Aug. 20, 2008

I want to seriously, without any rancor or sarcasm or ill will, thank both of you most sincerely for your comments. You have stated, far better than I could ever have, the reason and the meaning for the phrase, "Casting your pearls before swine".

Lance you know so much about the Temple and sounds like you do not beleave in it. I would not go so far about it. God may show you a big problem in your life one day and you will come to the understanding you will need him. There are day I know i'm not Temple ready and I will not put myself in a way that God will show me that day I should not be there.

Doug,

If the kind of God you believe in has to hurt me and punish me because I don't believe in your Temples, then he is not a God worthy to be worshipped.

I stand by what I said. "Though he slay me, yet will I disbelieve in him" (Job 13:15)