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Detailed response to CES Letter, Conclusion: Difference between revisions
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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 went to FAIR. | *The author had already reached his conclusions about the Church and lost his testimony ''before'' he went to FAIR. It is clear from his statements that he went to MormonThink and lds.org first. The following statements posted by the author on the ex-Mormon subreddit show his line of thinking. How did the author conclude that FAIR "did more to destroy his testimony than any anti-Mormon source ever could", when he claims that he visited FAIR ''after'' he wrote "A Letter to a CES Director"? | ||
*The author of "A Letter to a CES Director" said on '''October 11, 2012''' | *The author of "A Letter to a CES Director" said on '''October 11, 2012''' | ||
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*The author of "A Letter to a CES Director" said on '''November 11, 2012''' | *The author of "A Letter to a CES Director" said on '''November 11, 2012''' | ||
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A person has to do their own convincing. Your dad is doing the research and is asking questions. Let it take its course. | A person has to do their own convincing. Your dad is doing the research and is asking questions. Let it take its course. <span style="color:blue">Hopefully you pointed him to the right resources (MormonThink.com, etc.</span>) | ||
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*The author of "A Letter to a CES Director" said on '''November 15, 2012''' | *The author of "A Letter to a CES Director" said on '''November 15, 2012''' | ||
Revision as of 00:05, 21 July 2013
| [[../Other Concerns & Questions|Other Concerns & Questions]] | A FAIR Analysis of:
[[../|Letter to a CES Director]] |
A FAIR Analysis of the online document Letter to a CES Director section "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."
- "FAIR and these unofficial apologists have done more to destroy my testimony than any anti-Mormon source ever could"