From someone who has been there... majority of the Anti Mormon tactics, antics and articles are misconstrued strawman arguments put together to hopefully deceive people. I have read Bill Mckeevers Mormonism 101. Alot of fallacious arguments in that work. I have read and seen the God Makers, Ed Decker is a joke. I have read alot of works by these so called Christian Ministers who seemed to think they know more about the LDS Religion.
When I was on the other side of the fence and an anti mormon (my fiance still says I am an anti mormon and we don't talk religion in the house, but we are getting more and more comfortable on the subject - we have home teachers that come see us and we go to church infrequently. She says we are going, I say okay and then she cops out and I ask why are we not going?). Anyway.
My thought is that majority of the anti mormon literature are based upon their misconstrued interpretations and rehashments of old arguments dressed up in new presupposed logical reasonings.
Majority of these people can't even back up the originality of their statements. Most of them don't even understand the Bible, Christian History and Religious ideals and how religious doctrines have evolved over time. To them, it is one or the other. The fact remains, Christians can't even agree on one single point of doctrine from a biblical standpoint.
And, finally, what authority and right do these people have to bash someone elses religion? They don't. People will believe what they want to believe. We must understand and share what we know is to be true and let God do the convicting and the drawing forth.
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