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|claim="I hide my name precisely because of things like this....I know a lot of members don’t want their life disturbed. In the Mormon church, if you’re not part of the uniform group, you are ostracized."{{ref|beast.1}} | |claim="I hide my name precisely because of things like this....I know a lot of members don’t want their life disturbed. In the Mormon church, if you’re not part of the uniform group, you are ostracized."{{ref|beast.1}} | ||
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* Why does Twede not disclose that he, by his own admission, only returned to Church attendance so he could claim that the hostile MormonThink.com site was run by "active members"? | |||
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*Why does Twede not disclose that he used his identity as a practicing, attending Mormon to deliberately undermine the faith of members? | |||
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* Why does Twede not tell the press that he knew that what he was doing would be grounds for Church discipline?[[File:Bucket of Facts - Twede 12 Sept detail.PNG|frame|400 px|right|Twede tells anti-Mormon blog readers that he doesn't want his identity to be known because his efforts to use his membership in the Church to deliberately weaken the faith of others could result in Church discipline.]] | |||
** "I don't want anyone I meet in person to know I'm associated with, let alone managing editor at, MormonThink. I don't even want Pat [a member Twede was trying to lead away from the Church] to find it serendipitously--it could get me in a sort of pickle and cut short my church activity." - David Twede, [[/Bucket of Facts blog post|blog post]], 12 September 2012. | |||
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|claim="[W]hy would I take these photos [of LDS temples] after leaving this religion? Because, I plan to sell them and recoup my donations over the years! hahahahaha!"{{ref|fb.2.feb.2010}} | |||
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* Why does Twede not disclose that he, by his own admission, only returned to Church attendance so he could claim that the hostile MormonThink.com site was run by "active members"? | * Why does Twede not disclose that he, by his own admission, only returned to Church attendance so he could claim that the hostile MormonThink.com site was run by "active members"? |
A FAIR Analysis of: MormonThink A work by author: David Twede
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Things to think about
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