>Why do we have to, unless the book proclaims itself as THE definitive book
>on such-and-such. When John Sorenson writes a book on Book of Mormon
>geography, I'm going to expect serious research (that I can duplicate if I
>chose). When a person writes a personal memoir, I'm really not expecting to
>read anything other than their own experiences.
Thom, crack that book open again! She is constantly saying, in essence,
"Here are all of my professional credentials." (she spouts her credentials a
lot) "I am logically and honestly telling you important things that you
should believe and act upon." I think we make judgements about the
reliability of the narrator in any book we read, but in a book like this,
where she is constantly trying to establish herself as a reliable narrator
(i.e. the many references to her logical brain and her sociological
training) and where she is, admittedly, trying to "open our eyes" to a
particular problem or incident...well you'd have to be pretty naive to take
her at face value without even once testing her claim that she is a reliable
narrator. Where's your Mormon Training, my friend? Martha herself said
that the problem with Mormonism is that it teaches you to seek your own
revelation on the truth of it (and then true revelation tells you it is
false). So I guess Martha told me, "Look at this logically and then you'll
see you can trust me." Problem was, I looked at it logically and found I
couldn't trust her.
Marianne Hales Harding
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