LDS, Inc. Evades 21 Questions about Mormonism
A PR representative for the LDS church has answered 21 questions posed by reporters from FOXNews. I use the term “answered” very lightly. I felt deeply saddened (and slightly disgusted) by the time I finished reading.
The answers illustrate the opposite of integrity. It’s like they know their doctrines are going to be ridiculed, so they lie about them. Part of why I stopped believing in the church is for exactly this reason: the church started to discard the things that I had been taught were eternal truths. I started doubting because I was too Mormon for the LDS church.
Equality Time has a good blow-by-blow reaction to the answers.
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Seth R. said,
December 22, 2007 @ 7:28 pm
Jonathan, “evasive” or “misleading” might fit the bill if you want to be critical. “Dishonest” and “lying” are probably too strong. Here’s an Evangelical breakdown of the questions that I felt was reasonably fair:
Straight Answers to Fox’s 21 Questions about the Mormon Church
December 23, 2007 @ 8:02 am
Thank you for the link. Their answers were much better (and even pretty fair to boot!) than the official answers. I would quibble with some of them like the answer about the cult label, but pretty good.
I feel justified in calling the church’s collection of answers lying because of the cumulative effect of all that evasion. If I didn’t know better, I would be led to believe that the LDS church teaches something completely different than it does; I would be deceived. My gold standard of honesty requires the whole truth.
December 23, 2007 @ 9:53 pm
Yes. Maybe you are too Mormon — seriously.
December 27, 2007 @ 8:52 am
I’ve been thinking about this. If I could define Mormon by the concept of drawing in all truth and circumscribing it into one whole, then I could accept the label. I’m afraid though that using the label with anyone except myself would lead to endless confusion.
December 27, 2007 @ 9:36 am
I think there are more Mormons similar to you than you realize or acknowledge.
December 27, 2007 @ 4:20 pm
Probably true, but I’m still not sure what benefits come with calling myself Mormon that would outweigh the negatives.