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|no mention=<font style="color: white; background: red"> '''Church never tells us''' </font>—Critics often claim the Church doesn't reveal or discuss something, when Church publications have discussed the matter, often at length and in detail. | |no mention=<font style="color: white; background: red"> '''Church never tells us''' </font>—Critics often claim the Church doesn't reveal or discuss something, when Church publications have discussed the matter, often at length and in detail. | ||
|not doctrine=<font style="color: white; background: red"> '''Not doctrine''' </font>—Critics make claims about what "the Church teaches" or what "I was taught," but these ideas are specifically repudiated by official sources. | |not doctrine=<font style="color: white; background: red"> '''Not doctrine''' </font>—Critics make claims about what "the Church teaches" or what "I was taught," but these ideas are specifically repudiated by official sources. | ||
| − | | repeat = '''Repetition''' </font>—Critics often repeat the same claim again and again, as if repetition improved their argument. Or, they use the same 'shock-quote' multiple times. | + | | repeat =<font style="color: white; background: red"> '''Repetition''' </font>—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''' </font>—When critics become shrill, they sacrifice accuracy and begin making silly sarcastic claims. | + | | shrill=<font style="color: white; background: red"> '''Shrillness makes you appear silly and inaccurate''' </font>—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"''' </font>—Critics always portray themselves as "truth seekers," and imply that believer are liars. | + | |truth=<font style="color: white; background: red"> '''Critics are "lovers of truth" and "truth seekers," while believers are "desperate" and "liars"''' </font>—Critics always portray themselves as "truth seekers," and imply that believer are liars. |
| warm fuzzies = <font style="color: white; background: red"> "'''Warm fuzzies'''" </font>—A mocking term used by critics to describe "feeling the spirit." | | warm fuzzies = <font style="color: white; background: red"> "'''Warm fuzzies'''" </font>—A mocking term used by critics to describe "feeling the spirit." | ||
|spaghetti=<font style="color: white; background: red"> '''Spaghetti defense''' </font>—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." | |spaghetti=<font style="color: white; background: red"> '''Spaghetti defense''' </font>—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." | ||
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