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Robert Meldrum
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:27 pm
by _harmony
I've heard this name a bit. We have a Meldrum family in my sister ward, so I'm wondering about this guy.
Who is he? What is his background? What is his schtick, that he's on the apologist radar?
Re: Robert Meldrum
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 3:38 pm
by _Tom
Perhaps you are referring to
Rodney Meldrum?
Re: Robert Meldrum
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 4:19 pm
by _mentalgymnast
harmony wrote:I've heard this name a bit. We have a Meldrum family in my sister ward, so I'm wondering about this guy.
Who is he? What is his background? What is his schtick, that he's on the apologist radar?
http://www.deseretnews.com/user/comment ... 09,00.htmlhttp://www.mormontimes.com/DB_index.php?id=1197www.bookofmormonevidence.comHis theories buck against the prevailing opinions of the FARMS folks and many at FAIR.
Hope this helps,
MG
Re: Robert Meldrum
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 4:46 pm
by _Equality
But are right in line with the opinions of such Mormon luminaries as Joseph Smith, Jr., Brigham Young, Spencer W. Kimball, Ezra Taft Benson, Bruce R. McConkie, Joseph Fielding Smith, and Gordon B. Hinckley, to name a few. Oh, and the vast majority of true-believing Mormon church members, who actually think the church is led by prophets speaking directly to Jeebus, and not by a bunch of egghead college professors. But that's what makes it so much fun. To be an apologist, you have to reject the very prophets you work so hard to defend. It's a delicious irony.
Re: Robert Meldrum
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:33 pm
by _harmony
Re: Robert Meldrum
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 8:24 pm
by _SUAS
Sorry I can't help this..but, MURDER===REDRUM...
Sorry but I can' help being funny...It is the Stephen King in me.
Re: Robert Meldrum
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 9:18 pm
by _collegeterrace
He is the people's apologist.
The fair farmers hate it, as he has has a much larger following than fair and farms combined, and the salt in that wound is that Meldrum has done it in a very short time period.
He did this by speaking in terms that chapel Mormon understand and know. Most chapel Mormons are comfortable with the realistic answers from Meldrum than they are with plausibilities from Fair/Farms/MI.
Of course he is in the sights of the MI farmer's rock salt shotgun. He is walking onto ground they claim to belong to the Danielites.
Meldrum is offering Lagoon Amusement park and the Danielites only have a small FAIR whose biggest attraction is a petting zoo filled with tapirs and deer.
Re: Robert Meldrum
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 11:46 pm
by _Daniel Peterson
To my knowledge, FARMS has had absolutely nothing to say thus far about Rodney Meldrum or his theories.
Re: Robert Meldrum
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 12:01 am
by _mentalgymnast
Daniel Peterson wrote:To my knowledge, FARMS has had absolutely nothing to say thus far about Rodney Meldrum or his theories.
You're right.
http://www.fairlds.org/Book_of_Mormon/MisguidedF.htmlI would imagine it might be too much to ask...but...what do you think about Meldrum's theories? Do you see him as being misguided?
Regards,
MG
Re: Robert Meldrum
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 3:43 am
by _The Dude
collegeterrace wrote:The fair farmers hate it, as he has has a much larger following than fair and farms combined....
Is this fact or speculation?
If you are speculating, then I guess there's a 50% chance you are correct. If it is a fact that Meldrum has a larger following, then I'd like to see the data for future reference... so I can give up speculating myself.