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Frankly, I am puzzled ... I don't suppose that you are much different from me in expecting to be told the truth about important things, or in being puzzled when you find that someone you trusted has been deceptive, dishonest and fobbed you off with a pack of lies. Although some areas of history are not clear cut as we might wish them to be, we can agree that an honest inquirer will make every effort to ensure their conclusions accord with what it known, what can be verified, what is honest rather than profitable, and without leading trusting readers through page after page of prejudiced nonsense. 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 catgu.t!" 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, might you consider trusting thast 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 tomme? Besides which, I not the the only victim of misinformation, deliberate and otherwise, about Mormonism? 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 hionest, and who cannot stand up to honest inmterrogation about their practices, etc, but I have never received a satisfactory answer to the simplest 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 in time they do not answer their mail. I have had correspondence with some 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 wrote to me, "been less than honest about my time with the Mormons ..." His letter rests in my study in the large file under his name. Other anti-Momrons 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 uintruths 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 the unwary and mislead the gullible. I survey many of their claims here to illustrate that thelies 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 hobgoblins and wicked faeries. You are then invited to judge for yourself where truth stands. Ronnie Bray I am not in this for the money, and I do not solicit or accept donations of any kind |
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