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Date: January 27, 2014 09:47AM
Every response should be, "These are old issues which the church has never hidden. The church has acknowledged Joesph Smith's gun, multiple wives, child brides, Book of Abraham translation issues, that the BOM was reveilved in a hat not translated from plates, arrest for fraud, treasure hunting, attempted copyright sale of the BOM etc... Then link to the responses
The best document may be their response to the CES letter
http://en.fairmormon.org/Criticism_of_Mormonism/Online_documents/Letter_to_a_CES_DirectorAll responses should include sources from FAIR at this point. MormonThink is great as it made the Church address these issues but now that they have, all current entrenched members should be presented with the items directly from FAIR. The circle is now complete.
They confirm most things but basically say that they use loaded language or aren't looking at it in the contex of its time.
Kind of like
Yes Hitler lead Germany during the holocaust but what the critic fails to realize is that anti-Semitism was very common during this period and there is no direct evidence that the Fuerur knew that the gassings were taking place. The critic makes the mistake of using loaded language and presentism. Presentism is a mode of literary or historical analysis in which present-day ideas and perspectives are anachronistically introduced into depictions or interpretations of the past. Some modern historians seek to avoid presentism in their work because they believe it creates a distorted understanding of their subject matter. The mass murder of ethnic jews and gypsies was not an uncommon practice in the day and it is a mistake to put present day morals on people of the past.