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It is called mormandna.org. He say's he is an amatuer apologist. His claim is to not prove the LDS church is true but to show that it "can't be proven untrue". His tactics are some of the most blatent spins, mental gymnastics I have ever seen. After reading his explanations I need to take two aspirin and lay down.
Sounds like he's trying to get noticed and laying the groundwork for future 'general authority' status. Ambitious chap...
NEVER Heard of him,But to me there is FAR more Proof agaiinnst the church!
I clicked on the "homosexuality" category (because I couldn't find anything on DNA); there was a letter by an individual I'm familiar with (I went to school with his wife) who wrote a letter to BKP on the subject, describing the trials they've endured because of their gay son and their own LDS membership.
Our guy tried to answer it...
>The claim that the American Psychiatric Association is a provider of “sound medical advice”. From what I can tell, it’s an organization that has its ideas grounded less in science than their own particular ideology, which they try to back up through selective science. That said, I’m not saying I’m a proponent of reparative therapy. It may indeed be ineffective and damaging. Just because I’m against the APA doesn’t mean I’m in favor of whatever they are against.
Anyone who says the APA has "one particular idealogy" doesn't know squat about the subject...
> The author states “Homosexuality is not a ‘condition’ that can be ‘cured.’ My proof: I have yet to meet even one venerable grandfather with a fine posterity (or anyone else for that matter) who says he was once homosexual but was long ago cured…” The author may be 100% correct, but this still seems like a rather bold statement to make based on purely anecdotal evidence. It also seems like a rather illogical conclusion to draw from his experience, since it would seem that anyone who is a grandfather today and having grown up in society as it was, would be extremely hesitant to admit to having had homosexual tendencies. That is, there could be many people with the experience of having had homosexual urges 60 years ago who have been “cured”, but what are the chances the author would have run into them, and that they would confide this matter to him?
And after this "damned with faint praise" approach, the author states it might be a good thing for church authorities to pull Packer's "letter."
LDSFreedomForum offers a better "high."
Our guy tried to answer it...
>The claim that the American Psychiatric Association is a provider of “sound medical advice”. From what I can tell, it’s an organization that has its ideas grounded less in science than their own particular ideology, which they try to back up through selective science. That said, I’m not saying I’m a proponent of reparative therapy. It may indeed be ineffective and damaging. Just because I’m against the APA doesn’t mean I’m in favor of whatever they are against.
Anyone who says the APA has "one particular idealogy" doesn't know squat about the subject...
> The author states “Homosexuality is not a ‘condition’ that can be ‘cured.’ My proof: I have yet to meet even one venerable grandfather with a fine posterity (or anyone else for that matter) who says he was once homosexual but was long ago cured…” The author may be 100% correct, but this still seems like a rather bold statement to make based on purely anecdotal evidence. It also seems like a rather illogical conclusion to draw from his experience, since it would seem that anyone who is a grandfather today and having grown up in society as it was, would be extremely hesitant to admit to having had homosexual tendencies. That is, there could be many people with the experience of having had homosexual urges 60 years ago who have been “cured”, but what are the chances the author would have run into them, and that they would confide this matter to him?
And after this "damned with faint praise" approach, the author states it might be a good thing for church authorities to pull Packer's "letter."
LDSFreedomForum offers a better "high."
He runs an "internet marketing company" that produces internet spam, and is illegal to operate in the US, therefore he does his operations in China. He is a Mormon Entreprenuer ... keep your hand on your wallet.
His stuff on DNA evidence for book of mormon is worthless.
His stuff on DNA evidence for book of mormon is worthless.
I skimmed a couple links. Kind of hard to take someone seriously who uses Wikipedia for references...