Are Christians allowed to discredit Mormonism?

[_Scottie]

You gotta give Sheum credit too. I still can't figure that one out.

Can't wait till the apologists find some ancient word resembling neas, cureloms, and cumoms. lol.

And Ziff

[_cksalmon]

Well, quite frankly, this does have an internal logic (as warped as it might be). If you can accept the weirdness that is the Bible at face value, you should be able to accept just about anything. It then becomes not a matter of which theology makes the most sense, but which fairy tales appeal most to you (a.k.a. which one you were likely born into, or the one that preaches a morality that most closely aligns with your own).

I'm in agreement with you here, Schmo...

How is Mormonism "weird", but the Bible is just fine??

To me, it screams that they are ALL false.

It's a logically-fallacious form of argumentation: specifically, the tu quoque ("you too!") argument. It has no bearing on the truth or falsity of Mormonism. It's an attempt to silence inquiry by suggesting that your opponents' arguments face the same hurdles as your own. Irrelevant fallacy.

Still, I'm more than happy to admit biblical problems. When Bill Hamblin complained about EV's dismissing Book of Mormon secondary to the absence of evidence for Mesoamerican metalworking while accepting antediluvian metalworking, sans evidence, in the Bible, I suggested that such was, in some measure, evidence against the truthfulness of both claims.

But the lack of antediluvian metalworking in ANE has nothing to do with the truthfulness of Book of Mormon, etc.

It's an informal, but pervasive, fallacy on MADB.

CKS