Comments on: Faith Crisis: Cause and Prevention https://mormonchallenges.org/2014/05/04/faith-crisis-cause-and-prevention/ When Mormons and non-Mormons alike consider these challenges, they will both come closer to the truth and find themselves increasingly free to make wise choices about their faith and their lives. Tue, 06 Jan 2015 07:48:01 +0000 hourly 1 By: BoydFromOz https://mormonchallenges.org/2014/05/04/faith-crisis-cause-and-prevention/#comment-95 Tue, 06 Jan 2015 07:48:01 +0000 http://ldsdomain.com/mormonchallenges-org/?p=778#comment-95 I don’t know where to start.
Do I identify the logic fallacies? Do I take some of the utter nonsensical statements such as “There are no laws of fair play or rules of engagement in this war as far as they are concerned.” to task.
Do I ask you to correct the obvious misrepresentation you made about what the CES letter actually is? No, it is much more than “Much of it focuses on statements made by early Church leaders”
.Do I challenge you on ridiculous statements such as “The truth of the gospel and the divinity of Joseph Smith’s calling as a prophet of the restoration do not depend on his behavior as a human being and do not require perfection in his life.” because yes, it does matter. Do I ask you to identify what it was in his behaviour that made him less than perfect, in this context.
Do I challenge this kind of statement, which polarises amongst other things…”As you would expect, the enemies of the Church combine some factual information with a great deal of what appears to be deliberate dis-information and speculation, and everything has a highly meanspirited, antagonistic spin put on it. Their intent is to lure people away by whatever means they can find. There are no laws of fair play or rules of engagement in this war as far as they are concerned. ”

I mean really?

You say there are no skeletons in the closet, but then say it’s okay because people like bushman wrote RSR, which, is a book basically about skeletons in the closet – and he hasn’t left the church so hey, it’s all okay. But then those antis are asking questions for which there are no good answers. Yeah, I’m confused.

Or do I congratulate you for encouraging people to read up, and attempt to self inoculate?

But I guess it was a sacrament meeting, and if you said something along the lines that there actually are answers, you just might not like them, that wouldn’t go down well.

So for LDS audience, we’ll done.

My last comment is I’d be happy to read more about the idea of inoculation. I mean what do people need that to? The truth? Or the lies? Curious analogy

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