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Date: January 23, 2012 09:29PM
An interesting review of Kay's book was published on Amazon by reader "Lane". An excerpt of his review is below:
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For anyone interested in a shorthand book on Mormon history, its foundations, the evolution of its doctrines, and the consequences thereof, this is a great book for you. I've been a missionary, bishop, and a strident student of Mormonism my whole life, and this is the only book on the subject I've taken the time to praise, and I've read all of them. No doubt this book resonates with me because of our similar legal backgrounds, and my former intense religiousity and its demise based upon a simple regimen of study and personal commitment to be responsible for my own beliefs and actions.
Still, for anyone who reads Mormon apologetics, you need to take Kay's book and compare. First, she's honest about her actions, character, mistakes, warts and all. She's about as authentic a person as you can have, at this point in her life, anyway. It's just refreshing to witness a person raised in Mormonism capable of such authenticity. I'm not there yet, and I've worked at it everyday for years. Then she just lays out the facts and her argument, without resorting to ad hominen. She does call the general authorities down at times, because it is the nature of a treatise where those in control make effort to limit access to or obfuscate the facts. When Lying for the Lord is easily documented, it is not ad hominem to provide the documentation to prove the case.
A case in point is my old Trusts professor, Dallin Oaks. There is so much to admire about this guy, but when he tries to justify a lack of candor for the good of the Church, it is as though, for that moment, he has no understanding of ethics. When he intimates that truth may not necessarily be shared so that a corporate mission may be better accomplished, failing to consider that people have a right to make their own decisions based upon total disclosure, he publicly displays a lapse of judgment and ethics that he may only be able to correct if he is called on it. Even then, his investment is so high, how could he ever see it for what it is? It would take an "exceedingly" great and humble person to so sacrifice himself in implementing his ethical duty. I have such high hopes for Elder Oaks; it's painful to have to witness his mental gymnastics. Kay does a respectful and artful job of calling him on this sort of thing, which indeed is repugnant to Anglo-American jurisprudence. When we mammals know we are right, we can harm so off-the-cuff.
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link to the book's home page at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/American-Fraud-Lawyers-against-Mormonism/dp/0615465897Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/23/2012 09:30PM by 3X.