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|claim=The author claims that, "Under [Elder Quentin] Cook’s counsel, FAIR and unofficial LDS apologetic websites are anti-Mormon sources that should be avoided. Not only do they introduce to Mormons “internet materials that magnify, exaggerate, and in some cases invent shortcoming of early Church leaders” but they provide many ridiculous answers with logical fallacies and omissions while leaving members confused and hanging with a bizarre version of Mormonism." | |claim=The author claims that, "Under [Elder Quentin] Cook’s counsel, FAIR and unofficial LDS apologetic websites are anti-Mormon sources that should be avoided. Not only do they introduce to Mormons “internet materials that magnify, exaggerate, and in some cases invent shortcoming of early Church leaders” but they provide many ridiculous answers with logical fallacies and omissions while leaving members confused and hanging with a bizarre version of Mormonism." | ||
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*Read the author's statement carefully: The author commits the logical fallacy of "Appeal to Ridicule," which, according to Wikipedia, | *Read the author's statement carefully: The author commits the logical fallacy of "Appeal to Ridicule," which, according to Wikipedia, | ||
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is an informal fallacy which presents an opponent's argument as absurd, ridiculous, or in any way humorous, to the specific end of a foregone conclusion that the argument lacks any substance which would merit consideration." ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_ridicule Wikipedia entry]'' | |||
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*FAIR does not "magnify, exaggerate" or "invent shortcomings of early Church leaders." | *FAIR does not "magnify, exaggerate" or "invent shortcomings of early Church leaders." | ||
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