Looks like a weird angle and little buddy seems to have mushed its lower lip up against the counter. Their teeth really look a bit more human-like than many animals’. As an ex-Mormon, we learn about tapirs, because… reasons.
Exactly that. Something called linguistic “loanshifting.” It was suggested by a Mormon “scholar” in the 80s and is trotted out from time to time by later apologists. It’s a somewhat niche suggestion even among Mormons, but that’s because nothing in the Book of Mormon makes any damn sense at all in any field’s scholarship without world class mental gymnastics, so most of the rank and file simply choose not to worry about it.
wjrii@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Looks like a weird angle and little buddy seems to have mushed its lower lip up against the counter. Their teeth really look a bit more human-like than many animals’. As an ex-Mormon, we learn about tapirs, because… reasons.
kofe@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Do they try to argue there was a miscommunication and that the horses mentioned in the Mormon Bible were actually tapirs? I’m confused
wjrii@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Exactly that. Something called linguistic “loanshifting.” It was suggested by a Mormon “scholar” in the 80s and is trotted out from time to time by later apologists. It’s a somewhat niche suggestion even among Mormons, but that’s because nothing in the Book of Mormon makes any damn sense at all in any field’s scholarship without world class mental gymnastics, so most of the rank and file simply choose not to worry about it.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
It really is the least believable of bigger religions