RE: [AML] Beck, Leaving the Saints

I wasn't fooled by her claims to authority. Had she been a professional
sociologist, I might have paid attention.

Thom Duncan replies to:

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com] On Behalf Of Marianne Hales Harding
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>>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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