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| admit = "'''Admit'''"&mdash;Critics claim that apologists only "admit" facts, while critics "disclose the truth."

|apologist='''Dismissal of apologists' use of new data as simply a desperate ploy'''&mdash;When the facts don't stack up in the critics' favor, simply imply that apologists are executing a desperate ploy to try and distract you.

|beg the question='''Begging the question''': Critics will often assume what they are trying to prove in how they frame questions or describe issues.

| caricature='''Caricature believers' arguments'''&mdash;Rather than accurately report and respond to an argument offered by a believer, it is easier to caricature it and mock the straw man version that you have created.

| change opinion='''Believers aren't allowed to change their opinions''': if believers don't abandon their faith because of the critics' arguments, they are "ignoring the evidence."  When believers change their opinions as new data become available, the critics triumphantly declare that this means the believers are being inconsistent or caving in.

|despair='''Believers are characterized to be in a state of "desperation" or "despair"&mdash;Critics wish to make it appear that believers are never on solid ground based upon facts and that any attempt to support their belief is an act of desperation or despair.

|doesn't count='''Doesn't count''': Anti-Mormons like to claim the Church ''never'' or ''rarely'' does something, and then insist that every counter-example doesn't really count (if they mention them at all).  This lets them ignore all evidence contrary to their position.

| ex-mormon='''Quotes from Ex-Mormon message board posts do not produce the best evidence'''&mdash;Ex-mormon message board posts tend to let their rhetoric obscure facts.

| loaded= '''Loaded language''' &mdash;Critics often use negative terms, biased language, or casual terms to make LDS matters seem bizarre, evil, or absurd.

|mocking='''Mocking language'''&mdash;The critic uses hyperbole to mock believers.

|mutually exclusive='''Mutually exclusive claims'''&mdash;When critics need an attack against the Church, ''any'' excuse will do, even if they are mutually self-contradictory: if one argument is true, the other cannot be. They hope we don't notice that an internally consistent story is not being told.

| repeat = '''Repetition''' &mdash;Critics often repeat the same claim again and again, as if repetition improved their argument. Or, they use the same 'shock-quote' multiple times.

| shrill='''Shrillness makes you appear silly and inaccurate''' &mdash;When critics become shrill, they sacrifice accuracy and begin making silly sarcastic claims.

|truth='''Critics are "lovers of truth" and "truth seekers," while believers are "desperate" and "liars"&mdash;Critics always portray themselves as "truth seekers," and imply that believer are liars.

| warm fuzzies = "'''Warm fuzzies'''"&mdash;A mocking term used by critics to describe "feeling the spirit."

|spaghetti='''Spaghetti defense'''&mdash;Critics cannot figure out how something happened, so they will throw every possible explanation at it that they can in the hope that one of them will "stick to the wall."

|trivialization='''Trivialization'''&mdash;Critics take a complex idea and attempt to trivialize it down to a few simple sound bites in order to prove their position.