Posted by:
SusieQ#1
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Date: July 18, 2018 03:01PM
Josephina Wrote:
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> For years, I would find, usually accidentally,
> shocking Mormon tidbits on the internet. Farms and
> Fair could not assuage my horror, but Jeff
> Lindsay's apologetic site had just the right
> touch; he was so clever at maneuvering the details
> so I could keep believing in Mormonism in spite of
> the absurdity. But this could not go on forever.
> There were just too many crazy absurd facts piling
> up. The little cracks in my shelf gave way to a
> huge break. Early in March, 2015 I proclaimed to
> my husband that I no longer believed in Mormonism.
> He wanted to know why, and after a few weeks he no
> longer believed, either.
>
> I wonder now, why Jeff Lindsay is so clever at
> holding peoples' belief in the insane LDS church.
ificouldhietokolob .... did a great job of explaining what principles of writing Jeff Lindsay uses. The best apologists use one or all of these to support Mormonism's claims. Part of it is found here in this excellent list of Logical Fallacies. Once you understand what they are doing and how they are doing it, it's to spot the logic fallacies. Probably, the most common one that we see everywhere is the ad hominem.
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/659/03/