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The Oncoming Storm - bc
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Date: February 11, 2013 01:15PM
Fair - it seems to be down as often as it is up. God sure is doing a bad job of keeping the website that defends his church live.
My favorite "hall of shame" fair article. (If you don't have a good argument, just don't admit to polyandry in the first place):
http://www.mormonprobe.com/kaitch-a-tale-of-two-marriage-systems.pdfPersonally I didn't look on the web until I while after I decided I didn't believe the church anymore. I looked kind of as one last check just to make sure I wasn't missing some evidence that the church was true.
It was shocking how ridiculous FAIR was and how effective sites like MormonThink were that just told the truth.
FAIR basically did 3 things on every article:
1) Character assassination. Start the article with an ad hominen attack attempting to discredit whoever was on the other side of the subject.
2) Take the easiest, lowest hanging fruit of any issue/subject and spin an answer.
3) Declare victory, but dismissing the rest of the issue with a wave of the hand.
I suppose for someone who knows an issue exists and is looking for some kind of thread to grasp onto to be OK with something and not research it any further, FAIR could be effective.
Otherwise they just sound silly.