Frankly, I am puzzled ... I don't suppose that you are much different from me in expecting to be told the truth or in being puzzled when you find that someone you trusted is deceptive, dishonest and has told you Fantastique Tales madsquerading as informed truth and packs of cynbical lies. We can agree that honest people make sure their conclusions agree with what is really true rather than what is profitable and that honest folk do not lead their readers through page after page of cant and lies. You have a right to be puzzled if a person you trust describes Bruch's Violin Concerto in Number One in G Minor Opus 26 as "Horsehair scraping on catgut!" You would be well within your rights to question his musicality and knowledge of the subject. Take another example: If you ask directions of someone, and they deliberately send you off in the wrong direction, would you be wise to trust that person again? These examples illustrate my problem. You see, I have been lied to for sixty years about Mormonism, and I want to know why these people - most of whom do not know me - think it is morally right to lie to me? Besides which, I am not the the only victim of misinformation, deliberate and otherwise, about Mormonism. Anti-Mormons spread their dangerous tentacles far and wide without concern for their victims. I have spent a small fortune buying books, pamphlets, videos, CDs, DVDs, attending Anti-Mormon Conferences, corresponding with people that promise to tell all, be honest, but who either will not or can not stand for honest interrogation about their practices, etc, but I have never received a satisfactory answer to the most simple question. The common response to questions they find 'too hot to handle' is for them to shoot another lie at me without addressing or resolving the previous one, and after a time they do not answer their mail. I have had correspondence with Anti-Mormons at considerable length. A few have talked themselves into corners by contradictions and have been forced by their realisation of just how dishonest they have been to break down and confess openly that they have, as one ex-Mormon anti-Mormon from "Reach Out Trust" [ROT] wrote to me, "I been less than honest about my time with the Mormons ..." His letter rests in my study in the large file under his name and the name of the dishonest outfit that used his distorted testimony to sell their trashy books. Other anti-Mormons mount their sturdy steeds and ride off into the gathering gloom, never to be heard from again. Some have begged off, and I have had mercy on them, yet they have continued to publish what they must know are untruths and distortions. I have not returned to combat them because I gave my word as they gave theirs, but the difference is that I kept mine. So, their misinformation remains on the shelves of your local Christian book shops to deceive and mislead the unwary and gullible. I survey many of their claims here to illustrate that the lies they use against Mormonism do not stand up to any test of truth, however bizarre. I apply the simple standard of whether what is said agrees with known and verifiable facts, or whether gusts of hostile intentions have wafted them off-course and shipwrecked them in realms of malignant hobgoblins, hellish daemons, conniving witches, and wicked faeries. You are then invited to judge for yourself where truth stands. Ronnie Bray Unlike Anti-Mormons I am not in this for the money, and I do not solicit or accept donations of any kind |
