Poll vs. Shades vs. Nibley

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Re: Poll vs. Shades vs. Nibley

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We're not talking about social issues.


Gad is. You are aware Gad and I are having a conversation in this thread, right? You also are talking about social issues. Some social issues are also religious issues.

??? I not only "get at it," I clearly and unambiguously explain it right there in the essay!


I contemplated preemptively addressing this. I guess I should have. I'm aware that you talk about Internet/Chapel Mormons thinking they are the true religion and denying the other. In order to address my criticisms above, you've actually gone so far as to argue the principle defining feature of an Internet Mormon is the orthodoxy it treats towards one or more of a given set of predefined beliefs you admit may have no correlation with one another. Yet none of your attempts to measure this phenomenon actually go after this central defining feature. Hence my point. I'm not sure you see how useless this is. To the extent you try and make this something better than just saying liberal vs. conservative, it just breaks down into either incoherence or empirically questionable ideas.
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