DanielLC comments on Mere Messiahs - Less Wrong

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Comment author: komponisto 13 November 2011 10:19:25PM *  2 points [-]

The part about Gathsemane is exclusively Mormon doctrine

Not at all. It was the subject of an oratorio by Beethoven, who (whatever might be said about his religious beliefs) was definitely not a Mormon!

Comment author: DanielLC 13 November 2011 11:36:25PM 2 points [-]

The Wikipedia page you linked to talked about his emotional turmoil, but nothing more. The Mormon belief is that he suffered part of the atonement there. While the emotional turmoil is technically suffering, it's not really on the same scale, and not what Sharper was talking about.