July 20, 2003

• I’ve decided I am really grateful for the scriptures. Really really really grateful. I’m grateful for the power and reverence in their words. I’m reading the Book of Mormon again. It’s such a good book, why not. And I’m excited for Seminary to start up. I just wish school didn’t start with it . . .
  
  Oh and I finished another really good bood by Clive Cussler. It’s called Inca Gold. The action is really involving, and I found one it’s motifs particularly fascinating. He talks about diffusionism in South America- a theory that some pre-Columbian civilations were decendants of European, Africa, or Asian peoples. To quote Cussler, “decendants of the chachapoyas, many of them still fair skinned . . . speak of a godlike man who appeared among their ancestors from the eastern sea many centuries ago. He taught them building principles, the science of the stars, and the ways of religion . . . This holy man had thick white hair and a flowing beard . . . He was extremely tall, wore a long robe, and preached goodness and charity toward all. The rest of the story is too close to that of Jesus to [make sense]” Hmmm. Actually I think that would make some sense (hence my renewed enthusiasm for the Book of Mormon).

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