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So a kid comes to donny's website and asks how to respond to anti-Mormon material--scroll down to the question and response when you click the link (it is all sort of mashed together, so look closely for the beginning of the response):

http://donny.com/my_beliefs/anti-mormon ... ll-i-do-2/

You judge the accuracy of Donny's response. It is a very good example of a common reaction by TBMs to difficult facts. They argue against the facts initially, seeming to indicate that they do, indeed, find the facts troubling. I understand that someone at RFM sent Donny a correction and I am not sure how he will respond, but if experience is any indicator, he will suddenly act like the facts are no longer troubling.

Perhaps there is some irony in Donny's comment, "I caution you not to be swayed by misguided souls..."

From the article.

Isn't it interesting that you cannot go onto the web and find any kind of anti-Catholic, anti-Pentecostal, anti-Baptist, or anti-Lutheran material, but there's all kinds of stuff that is "anti-Mormon."

I wonder if Donny has looked for any of the above.

Stormy Waters wrote:From the article.

Isn't it interesting that you cannot go onto the web and find any kind of anti-Catholic, anti-Pentecostal, anti-Baptist, or anti-Lutheran material, but there's all kinds of stuff that is "anti-Mormon."

I wonder if Donny has looked for any of the above.

He's never been to CARM, I take it...

I wonder if Donny Osmond writes those responses. He probably has an assistant that reads and responds on that site. The response sounds like something that was run by the correlation department before hitting the save button.

From Donny's response:

The next thing you found was that "eight years after his first vision God told him to join no church, but he joined the Methodist church." That is not true.

So, did Joseph join the Methodists 8 years after God told him not to?

The question:

I am a 13 year old LDS girl, recently baptized. This is all great but........ About a week and a half ago I stumbled onto an anti-mormon website. Some stuff they said was really confusing and scary. They said stuff like Joseph Smith was tried for money digging and that 8 years after his first vision, when GOD told him to join no church he joined the methodist church. I don't know if I want to be LDS anymore. I haven't told ANYONE not even the missionaries who taught me. I'm not sure what to do. I don't even feel like praying anymore.

Does this look and sound like a 13 year old recently baptised girl?
Is the punctuation and capitalisation reflective of how a 13 year old writes?
Or is little Donny taking the odd liberty or two...

The truth is that as a young married man, he worked for a friend of his father-in-law who had purchased mining property in Northwestern Pennsylvania. Joseph was hired along with others to work for the man as they attempted to seek a vein of silver, which surveys had said was on the mining property. They never found it. Over the years thereafter, Joseph's enemies used this simple and sad fact to show that Joseph was a "money digger" seeking fortune. He wasn't any of that at all. He was a young man trying to provide a living for himself and his new bride and when it eventually went bad he moved on to some other gainful employment so that he could provide for his little family.

Hey Donny, why don't you tell us what method Joseph employed in his attempt to find a vein of silver...

That good feeling you have had while you were being taught and as you have read in the Book of Mormon and attended your meetings is the spirit of the Holy Ghost bearing witness to you that these things are true.

Which is the exact same feeling people got when listening to Paul H. Dunn.

Oh Donny...

A 13 year old girl?

I thought Donny's line would be, 'go away, little girl, before I beg you to stay.'

Drifting wrote:The question:

I am a 13 year old LDS girl, recently baptized. This is all great but........ About a week and a half ago I stumbled onto an anti-mormon website. Some stuff they said was really confusing and scary. They said stuff like Joseph Smith was tried for money digging and that 8 years after his first vision, when GOD told him to join no church he joined the methodist church. I don't know if I want to be LDS anymore. I haven't told ANYONE not even the missionaries who taught me. I'm not sure what to do. I don't even feel like praying anymore.

Does this look and sound like a 13 year old recently baptised girl?
Is the punctuation and capitalisation reflective of how a 13 year old writes?
Or is little Donny taking the odd liberty or two...

Are you implying that 13 year old girls cannot write in a grammatically correct fashion?