Buffalo wrote:When I was a missionary, we'd have conversations about Ed Decker and The God Makers. The distortions of Mormon teachings were so egregious, it gave me a lot of confidence about anti-Mormonism. I figured that it must all be like that, so I could simply dismiss it. Of course I found out later that that wasn't the case.
But imagine if you will - an army of amateur mopologists, commissioned by FAIR and NAMIRS to go forth as double agents, putting up websites with very obvious distortions of LDS history and doctrine that any struggling member would see, recognize as false, and then dismiss. There would have to be enough of them to drown out legitimate criticism. How many questioning members would see it and conclude that if so many people are just flat out lying about the church, there must be something to it? I'm guessing quite a few. And, since lying for the Lord is an old Mormon tradition, these double agent mopologists need not feel any guilt in the deception. It's all for a good cause.
Think about it, apologists. It might be your last remaining Trump card!
Problem is is that ALL anti-mormonism IS most certainly no different than the God Makers etc....
Yes, there is some difference in the rhetoric and some difference between the Religious anti-mormon and the non-religious anti-mormon. Like the Atheist anti-mormon may not make some claims the religious anti-mormon claims. Yes, and there are different levels of seeming intelligence and structure of arguments, like the hoity toyty elitist anti-mormon like (what's his name "Reid"? crap, can't remember), compared to the idiot anti-mormon like Ed Decker.
But YOU ALL use the same attacks and claims against the Church.
It doesn't matter how you "Dress the COW".... It's still a COW....
You can deny it all you want, but it's the truth. I've been there as an anti-mormon, I know. I've also been comparing anti-mormon claims for years, so I know what I'm talking about.