I completely agree with this paragraph from Martindale. I'm only
glancing through much of this thread, and see that others are linking
to their comments about this book, and these were my comments just
about excerpts of it which I read back when it was first published -
excerpts which, it turns out, are very possibly half of them
fabrications by people opposing Beck! What a mess. I've been advised
the tone of my comments may not always be preferable :) and I can see
some of them as very possibly hyperbolic and even paranoid - but it's
hard not to be paranoid when such very antagonistic things are said
about folks of my faith.. if Beck actually said those things. So
again, what a mess! Okay, okay, maybe someday I'll sort out what Beck
actually said and didn't, and clean up needless responses to
fabrications.
http://www.alexandtia.com/Alex/wiki/index.php/Leaving_the_Saints
By all the well-informed acounts of the the book which I have read I
would only peruse it as a study in the nature of hyperbolic
distortions and outright fabrications.
Alex Hall
http://alexandtia.com/film
On 12/27/06, D. Michael Martindale <dmichael@???> wrote:
> "Unfortunately, Martha's case against
> Mormonism is so exaggerated and shallow,
> the accuracy of her narrative style so suspect,
> and her use of hyperbole in such a devastating
> accusation so misplaced, that I believe
> she is doing the worst possible disservice to
> the painful issue of abuse. Since Martha's
> own reliability does not stand up well under
> the weight of close scrutiny in the public eye,
> this book can only damage the credibility of
> abuse survivors."
