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==A FAIR Analysis of the online document ''Letter to a CES Director'' section "Conclusion"== | ==A FAIR Analysis of the online document ''Letter to a CES Director'' section "Conclusion"== | ||
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| − | {{Epigraph|FAIR and these | + | {{Epigraph|FAIR confirms polyandry and the rock in the hat translation. Both of these issues usually cause severe cog dis in members. They did with me. I mean, once the rock in the hat story was confirmed, the whole thing collapsed because the rock in the hat ruins the official story of ancient prophets creating gold plates for Joseph and the testimony of the witnesses of the gold plates (since Joseph never used the plates anyway).<br>—The author of "A Letter to a CES Director" said on April 30, 2013 |
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*[[Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Conclusion#"Among the first sources I looked to for answers were official Church sources such as Mormon.org and LDS.org. I couldn’t find them."|"Among the first sources I looked to for answers were official Church sources such as Mormon.org and LDS.org. I couldn’t find them."]] | *[[Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Conclusion#"Among the first sources I looked to for answers were official Church sources such as Mormon.org and LDS.org. I couldn’t find them."|"Among the first sources I looked to for answers were official Church sources such as Mormon.org and LDS.org. I couldn’t find them."]] | ||
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|claim=The author claims, "FAIR and these unofficial apologists have done more to destroy my testimony than any anti-Mormon source ever could. I found their version of Mormonism to be alien and foreign to the Chapel Mormonism that I grew up in attending Church, seminary, reading scriptures, General Conferences, EFY, mission, and BYU. Their answers are not only contradictory to the scriptures and teachings I learned through correlated Mormonism…they’re truly bizarre." | |claim=The author claims, "FAIR and these unofficial apologists have done more to destroy my testimony than any anti-Mormon source ever could. I found their version of Mormonism to be alien and foreign to the Chapel Mormonism that I grew up in attending Church, seminary, reading scriptures, General Conferences, EFY, mission, and BYU. Their answers are not only contradictory to the scriptures and teachings I learned through correlated Mormonism…they’re truly bizarre." | ||
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| − | *The author had already reached his conclusions about the Church and lost his testimony ''before'' he actually did any research with FAIR. It is clear from his statements that he went to MormonThink | + | *The author had already reached his conclusions about the Church and lost his testimony ''before'' he actually did any research with FAIR. He said that "FAIR confirms polyandry and the rock in the hat translation. Both of these issues usually cause severe cog dis in members. They did with me." In other words, he went to FAIR ''expecting that FAIR would deny that these things happened.'' |
| + | *It is clear from his statements online (shown below) that he went to MormonThink and lds.org first. It is also evident that the author is only familiar selected quotes from a variety of primary sources that are included on critical websites. | ||
*The author of "A Letter to a CES Director" said on '''October 2, 2012''' | *The author of "A Letter to a CES Director" said on '''October 2, 2012''' | ||
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*The author of "A Letter to a CES Director" said on '''April 30, 2013''' | *The author of "A Letter to a CES Director" said on '''April 30, 2013''' | ||
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| − | <span style="color:blue"> | + | <span style="color:blue">FAIR confirms polyandry and the rock in the hat translation. Both of these issues usually cause severe cog dis in members. They did with me. I mean, once the rock in the hat story was confirmed, the whole thing collapsed because the rock in the hat ruins the official story of ancient prophets creating gold plates for Joseph and the testimony of the witnesses of the gold plates (since Joseph never used the plates anyway). |
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A FAIR Analysis of the online document Letter to a CES Director section "Conclusion"
FAIR and these unofficial apologists have done more to destroy my testimony than any anti-Mormon source ever could.
—"A Letter to a CES Director," April 2013
FAIR confirms polyandry and the rock in the hat translation. Both of these issues usually cause severe cog dis in members. They did with me. I mean, once the rock in the hat story was confirmed, the whole thing collapsed because the rock in the hat ruins the official story of ancient prophets creating gold plates for Joseph and the testimony of the witnesses of the gold plates (since Joseph never used the plates anyway).
—The author of "A Letter to a CES Director" said on April 30, 2013
- "Among the first sources I looked to for answers were official Church sources such as Mormon.org and LDS.org. I couldn’t find them."
- "FAIR and these unofficial apologists have done more to destroy my testimony than any anti-Mormon source ever could"