Simon Belmont wrote:sock puppet wrote:But with Dan, his retorts are nothing but personal. He never addresses the mopologetic/NAMIRS tactics of personal assassination against authors of Mormon critical works or the denuding of uniquely Mormon doctrine. With Dan towards Scratch, it's always personal and Dan feigning victimization.
It cannot be personal, sock puppet. No matter how you spin it, he is commenting on a false identity and a fake pseudonym, not a real person.
"The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a stiflingly paternalistic bureaucracy whose chief product is the shotgun wedding of 19th-century magical tall-tales and a fantasy
Ozzie and Harriet worldview. Its paid gerontocracy does not exist to serve, but to be served, while the members of that gerontocracy earn their widow's mite by churning out a never-ending stream of vapid
Chicken Soup for the Soul type of pabulum mixed in with their personal neuroses and arbitrary value judgments that become Mormon cultural taboos. The Church asks for everything but gives nothing back.
'Give us 10% of your money, and numerous other ecclesiastical levies besides that. Give us vast swaths of your personal time, too, and rearrange your life around your fealty to the organization. In return, we will give you, alternatively, guilt trips based on superstition and platitudes based on largely fictitious and boring anecdotes.'
Obedience for its own sake is the Church's central message. The deep thoughts from the Church's purported living prophet are like a maudlin Hallmark card. There is nothing particularly profound, interesting, insightful, or rewarding about faithful membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."
The statement above cannot be taken as a negative or critical statement. No matter how you spin it, I am commenting on a false identity and a fake pseudonym (excuse the redundancy "fake pseudonym"). There is no such entity as "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." It is a pseudonym. There IS an entity that actually exists that is called
"Corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." But I did not say anything about that entity in my above statement. I only mentioned the "false identity and fake pseudonym" of "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." So as long as the name isn't real, the criticism isn't real, either.