A fine article but I stopped reading when you went Nibley on us and started
mocking Martha, a la No Ma'am That's Not History, another article I never
finished because of its mocking tone. A lot of what FARMS has been putting
out lately bugs me, too. Why can't they just answer the issues without going
cutsie pie? If a fact is wrong, tell me it's wrong, show me the evidence,
and leave your presonality out of it.
Thom Duncan replies to:
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>Subject: RE: [AML] Beck, Leaving the Saints
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>Thom and others have asked what facts Martha got wrong.
>Herewith is a link to my little review of her book, offered
>not before I read the book but after plowing through it twice
>and then referring back to it again and again and again. I
>think you'll find that she got more than just a few wrong:
>
>http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/pdf.php?filename=NDQ0NjE4NDAzLT
>E3LTEucGRm&ty
>pe=cmV2aWV3
>
>The short version is captured in the following quote from my review:
>"'Leaving the Saints' is a frustrating book. It is also a
>dishonest book, calling to mind Mary McCarthy's famous
>critique of Lillian Hellman's writing, 'Every word she writes
>is a lie--including 'and' and 'the.' Ms.
>Beck caricatures sacred ordinances and doctrines, fabricates
>dialogue, turns the silliest myth into organizational policy,
>and creates events out of whole cloth with an aplomb that
>boggles the mind."
>
>That's my opinion anyway.
>
>Greg Taggart
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